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Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 23:18
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
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
Is it possible to study human remains ethically?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 44:44
This program was recorded on February 19, 2016.
Who we are and where we come from is a crucial question that now we are more able to answer than e...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 29:00
In celebration of Black History month, we mined the archives and revisited our interview with the late pianist and NEA Jazz Master Hank Jones.
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 4
Originally Broadcast: February 13, 2012
The exodus of approximately six million black people from the American South between 1915 and 1970 had a s...
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
“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
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is...
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
A generational discussion in 2002 about the American Dream
- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 24:21
Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is arguably the most consequential social insult in ...
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In part 2 of our conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 29:00
For Black History Month, NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR revisits this program with the late August Wilson. FENCES, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winnin...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WDCB, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
Maria W. Stewart, as characterized by professor and scholar Sandra Kamusakiri, was a free black woman who lived in Boston, MA, from the 1820s to th...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Relations is one-hour documentary special produced by Dmae Roberts, executive producer of MediaRites’ Crossing East series with Roby...
Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jun 28, 2017
- Length: 58:28
- Purchases: 5
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Art Works presents a 2010 interview with the great Martina Arroyo. We salute Martina Arroyo for her brilliant v...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Brittney Packnett gives a passionate speech to honor the civil rights leader birthday.
Bought by WSLR
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, Rebecca McInroy is joined by Dr. Coleman Hutchinson, Dr. Dina Berry, and Steve Wilson to discuss the some of the creative decision...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 59:03
Legendary blues kick into hard funk. Experience freedom in dance, musing and introspection. We'll pay tribute to a recently departed clarinet mas...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 01:59:53
- Purchases: 5
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 54:18
- Purchases: 4
In Duke Ellington's Eulogy to Billy Strayhorn he wrote, "His greatest virtue, I think, was his honesty--not only to others, but to himself." As we ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
