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Education is the gateway to the future in America. Our system is built around it but major colleges and universities continue to be predominantly w...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:16:43
Don Carter is a former police officer who spent nearly 10 years on the beat. He knows how the system works. He's also African American.
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:29:21
Being black in America is exhausting and even deadly. Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) is real and impacts the health and well-being of millions. What i...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:06:39
His work helped close four of the most infamous cold cases of the Civil Right Movement. Jerry Mitchell is one of the most celebrated investigative ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 48:16
When we say the words, “the talk”, it probably conjures up the awkward conversation one has with their children about the birds and the bees. Howev...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 58:43
Kentuckians fought on both sides of the Civil War but came together at war’s end to oppose a common foe—newly emancipated African Americans yearnin...
Bought by KRSC, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 22
The history of slavery is often taught as a bitter chapter of America’s past that has been rectified. But in Kentucky that history has been rarely ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU and more
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 23
Due to prohibitions against enslaved people learning to read and write, there are only a few written records left behind by formerly enslaved Kentu...
Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, WKMS and more
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 22
This show highlights the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the opportunity to interview the Active Executive Director, Shelley R...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:40
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
- Purchases: 1
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part two of its series about one of the largest sales of enslaved people in our country’s history, and an a...
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 12:21
TriPod: New Orleans @300 returns with the first in a two-part series about one of the largest sales of enslaved people in our country’s history. In...
- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 11:50
Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced b...
Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and XRAY.fm
- Added: Apr 17, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
This piece features the voices of black Americans who came of age during the civil rights era: an era that lives with a mix of pain and pride in th...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. Now, fo...
- Added: Oct 21, 2013
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 4
When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. Now, fo...
Bought by WNYC, WRIR, WVAS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WJAB and more
- Added: Oct 21, 2013
- Length: 53:52
- Purchases: 10
A bell tower that has been mute for 70 years at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia is about to get a voice thanks to Diane Watkins.
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 55:55
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
The NY City Draft Riots & The Battle of Ft. Wagner - July 1863
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
John Brown, Frederick Douglass & Harper's Ferry
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Catherine "Katie" Ferguson, the Jennings Family, and the Battle for Full First-Class Citizenship (1830-1854)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Ruggles, Douglass and the Rise of the Abolitionist and Back to Africa Movements, & the Underground Railroad (1830-1854)
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
The Rise of the Black Church, the Black Press and the Fight for Education (1783-1830)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Huddy and Tye (1775-1783)
Bought by WNYC
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
More Revolts, "Conspiracies," and Runaways (1712-1775)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Slave revolts & resistance: New England / New York 1712, etc.
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
