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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

Beloved Blues

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned

Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....

Keepers of the Flame

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.

Origin Stories

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

How race was invented to support racism.

EP206 Jessie Mae Hemphill

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).

Bought by WLPR

EP205 A.C. Reed

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.

Bought by WLPR

Alexandra Fuller– "Growing up White in Africa"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Our guest in this program lived in Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia from 1972 to 1990. Her fat...

Goodbye to All Fines

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

On October 5th, 2021, all three public library systems in New York City eliminated late fines. The change was 125 years in the making, and it made ...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio

We've Been Here Before

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn

The story of Canarsie in reverse, from the racial unrest in the 1990s, to the anti-integration school boycotts in the 1960s, the community of Canar...

Korematsu v United States & Japanese American Internment

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights

The story of Japanese-American internment during WWII, and the Supreme Court case that challenged it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WCMU Michigan, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNM and more

The Liverpool to Hamburg Scene Before The Beatles

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

Caption: Howie Casey Derry Wilkie and Band

There was the usual Liverpool music scene in Liverpool but there was a spectacular Liverpool musical scene that flourished in ... Hamburg, Germany....

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM

Pio Pico & Roberto Garza – Meet the Last Mexican Governor of California

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

In this program, we are going to go back into California history about 150 years, and visit with the last Mexican governor of California, Pio Pico....

Leonard Garment – "Crazy Rhythm: My Journey from Brooklyn, Jazz, and Wall Street to Nixon’s White House, Watergate, and Beyond…,"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Some people’s memories of President Richard Nixon are negative due to his role in escalating the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations at Kent St...

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction: Part 1

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

The Narcotic Farm and the Promise of Salvation

Episode 65: The Kingfish

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...

Bought by PRX Remix

Another Hundred People; Broadway in the 1970's

From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town

The decade of the 1970's; the music almost died. But there were a few highlights from "Company" and "A Little Night Music" to "Jesus Christ Superstar"

Bought by KVNF and WRR

The White Elephant

From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast

In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...

1968 Bullock Museum

From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix

Rebecca McInroy invites Kate Betts, Margaret Cook, Nancy Baker Jones, and Jean Heath to discuss The Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibit on...

Why the Chicken Became a Nugget and Other Tales of Processed Food

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: Crisco and chicken nuggets, Credit: CHF collections and Evan Amos, Wikimedia Commons.

Have you ever wondered how chicken nuggets are made? Or what propylene glycol monostearate, monocalcium phosphate, or other listed ingredients are ...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WTJU, RadioFreePalmer, and WYAP

Miff & Red

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...

Bought by WNCU and KCBX

Red & the Bean

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.

The 1992 LA Rebellion: Twenty Years Later

From: Dred-Scott Keyes

The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.

The Great Textbook War

From: Trey Kay

In 1974, Kanawha County was the first battleground in the American culture wars. Controversy erupted over newly-adopted school textbooks. School bu...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KUER and more

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