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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


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Almost Astronaut
From: Joe Richman
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The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.

  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 16:36
The Mothers of Gynecology
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.

Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 56:56
  • Purchases: 2
Correcting Race
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 48:57
Black Pills
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:18
Bad Blood, Bad Science
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:05
Return, Rebury, Repatriate
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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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.

  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 56:58
Origin Stories
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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How race was invented to support racism.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 33:44
EP223 Lightnin' Slim
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Otis Hicks was a somewhat unsung Louisiana blues man who was an inspiration to another Louisianan who would one day become world famous!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:08
  • Purchases: 2
EP220 Joe "Guitar" Hughes
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A great Blues musician who deserves recognition for his contribution to the genre.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:44
  • Purchases: 1
EP206 Jessie Mae Hemphill
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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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


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
EP205 A.C. Reed
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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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


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:21
  • Purchases: 1
EP204 John Primer Hard Times
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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"Hard Times" is the title of this 2022 album by veteran Bluesman John Primer and is aptly named for our current time.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #38: Cartoons
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Have you ever heard of the cartoonist Oliver Harrington? Probably not, but the artist played an instrumental role in German-American history. From ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
EP196 Salute to Chicago Blues Masters
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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In the year 2000 Telarc Blues label released a 3-album salute to three Chicago Blues Masters.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Apr 30, 2022
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 1
EP186 Jimi Hendrix Blues
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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This compilation album from 1994 showcases the Blues of Jimi Hendrix.

Bought by WLPR and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 2
EP184 Masters of Modern Blues Floyd Jones & Eddie Taylor
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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An historical recording with an amazing lineup of musicians from Chicago.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 57:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton
From: Radio Diaries
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On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 2
Soul Sister: The Limits of Empathy
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
EP179 Memphis Minnie
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Tribute to one of Blues music's great contributors, Memphis Minnie.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 58:54
Episode 37: What Gets Told
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 26:16
Episode 34: Lost and Found
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 45:28
EP175 Hip Linkchain
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Hip Linkchain/Lankchan was a first rate Chicago Blues musician whom is due recognition for his part in the American Blue scene.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 56:58
  • Purchases: 1
Jason Berry: Sleuth
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Jason Berry
Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker Jason Berry joins Gwen with fascinating stories and characters populating New Orleans’ cultural and mu...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 52:00