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A Shortcut Back Through 1994

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

A retrospective of the entire year in sixty minutes, "A Shortcut through 1994" feature no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtapos...

Tom Allman- "The Sheriff and Marijuana"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

This program was originally broadcast on June 19, 2007. Marijuana, some say, is on the lips of many people here in Mendocino County, California, a...

Building Back Black Wall Street

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021

Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW

Dr. Steven Miles: "A Blind Eye to Torture"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

This interview with Dr. Steven H. Miles was recorded in mid July 2006. The silence of doctors, nurses and medics in cases of torture and physical ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

Sam Totten – "Genocide in Darfur"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Genocide is the intent to exterminate in whole or in part a specific group of people often based on nationality, ethnicity, race or religion. For t...

Return, Rebury, Repatriate

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

Bois Forte Veteran Series - Gene Goodsky

From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series

KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hea...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle

Episode 4: On The Death Penalty - The Unexpected Messenger

From: Will Coley
Series: Shifting the Narrative

Over the past decade, support for the death penalty has plummeted. In this episode, we look at why this happened and how one unexpected messenger, ...

Episode 2: On Poverty - The Power of The Camera

From: Will Coley
Series: Shifting the Narrative

Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign took over a portion of the National Mall in Washington, DC. Their aim: change how Americans understand ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette

On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU

Wagner, Sally Roesch — Suffragist, Matilda Gage, Almost Jailed for Voting

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that cent...

Amy Bloom – Love as Creator

From: Barry Vogel

Love Invents Us Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the e...

1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall

From: Arndt Peltner

30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...

The Port Chicago Sailors: Separate and Unequal

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)

Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC

Wilkerson, Isabel — America’s Great Migration: 1915-1970 Part One

From: Barry Vogel

In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...

The Story of Jane

From: Radio Diaries

In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is ...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCMJ Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR

Trumbo: Offstage with Academy Award Nominated Best Actor Bryan Cranston & Director Jay Roach

From: Donna Granata

Caption: Bryan Cranston and Jay Roach, Credit: Donna Granata

The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The followin...

Wellesley Commencement Address: Hillary Rodham Clinton

From: Wellesley College

This is the full audio from the 1969 Wellesley College commencement speech delivered by Hillary Rodham Clinton, then Hillary Rodham, the first ever...

Bought by KZYX, WHQR, Wisconsin Public Radio, MPR News Stations, and PRX Remix

Rethinking Cuba Libre

From: History Talk from Origins
Series: History Talk Shorts

How two neighbors do and don't get along. A history of U.S.-Cuba relations.

Chamizal: A Town Between Two Borders

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix

This Week in History: Jack Kemp Announces Bid for President in 1988

From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie

This week in history looks back to April 1987 and the Republican race to succeed Ronald Reagan. This week, Jack Kemp, a longtime Congressman and fo...

Tribute to Dr. Cal Ledbetter and his wife Brownie

From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

Dr. Cal Ledbetter and his wife Brownie are heard here in the rebroadcast of their program appearances prior to their passing away.

Marriage Poster Gals Del & Phyllis: A Love Story

From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again -- legally -- in 2008, mere months b...

Bought by WORT, KQED, and KVMR

Fannie Lou Hamer

From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women

Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

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