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SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: The Gay Black Civil Rights Financier

From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials

I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF

StoryCorps Griot: Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Latasha Harlins as an early teen., Credit: Christina Rogers.

Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...

Bought by WYAP

StoryCorps Griot: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Willie Edwards Jr. died in 1957. He was killed by Klansmen who told him to either jump off a bridge or be shot., Credit: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts

Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.

Bought by WYAP

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

The Uncomfortable Truth About Race in America

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

“The Uncomfortable Truth” is a film produced by Loki Mulholland. It is a journey to understand how being white has benefited his family across gene...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KMUN, KOWS, and RadioStPete Florida

StoryCorps: Patsy Rembert and Winfred Rembert

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Patsy and Winfred Rembert at their StoryCorps interview in Hamden, CT in April of 2017. , Credit: By Jacqueline Van Meter for StoryCorps.

73-year-old Winfred Rembert is one of the only people ever known to have survived a lynching. At StoryCorps, he sat down with his wife, Patsy, to r...

StoryCorps Griot: Miriam Pratt and Jean Soliz

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

In 1969, Civil Rights leader Edwin Pratt was assassinated in his own home with his wife and daughter, Miriam, present. Miriam Pratt and her godmoth...

StoryCorps Griot: Myles Spencer-Watson and Charisse Spencer

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Charisse Spencer tells her teenage son Myles what it was like integrating her elementary school in Norfolk, Virginia in the 1960s.

Bought by WEZU

Former Mississippi Poet Laureate & Two Term US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey

From: New Letters on the Air

For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...

Bought by WNJR and WNJR

StoryCorps: Ellie Dahmer and Bettie Dahmer

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Vernon Dahmer was a successful farmer who fought for voting rights in the mid-1960s. His family recalls the night he was killed by the KKK.

Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP

Puzzling Out African American Genealogy

From: Missouri Audio Project
Series: Summer Story Workshop, 2015

Caption: Monica Hand, Credit: Meredith Turk

Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.

Bought by PRX Remix

The Lower 9th Ward Lives On

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Robert Green, Lower 9th ward resident, Credit: Andrew Stelzer

We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

StoryCorps Griot: Gwen Moten

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Gwen Moten remembers her childhood best friend, Denise McNair, who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WTJU

Marquell, Sharon, and Jane

From: Littleglobe

Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross

N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

FRUITVALE STATION -- Michael B. Jordan & Octavia Spencer interview.

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Michael B. Jordan & Octavia Spencer, Oakland, CA 6/21/13 , Credit: Andrea Chase

Michael B. Jordan and Octavia Spencer talk truth, pain, and spirituality.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix

StoryCorps: Bernard Holyfield and Charles Barlow

From: StoryCorps

Caption: Bernard Holyfield (R) and Charles Barlow

Bernard Holyfield (R) tells his friend Charles Barlow (L) about a painful memory from his childhood in the 1960s.

Bought by WEZU

The Legacy of Massive Resistance

From: With Good Reason

In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its schools rather than integrate. The closures lasted for five years, and the people who were denie...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KZYX, WESM 91.3 FM and more

The Legacy of Massive Resistance

From: With Good Reason

Edward R. Murrow called them “ The Lost Class of 1959”. The kids who had nowhere to go when some Virginia public schools closed their doors rather...

Bought by KRUA

New Orleans Funk: Leo Nocentelli (Part A)

From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show

Caption: Leo Nocentelli, Credit: www.nocentelli.com/

Leo Nocentelli is the legendary guitarist from the New Orleans group THE METERS. On this broadcast of THE FUNK SHOW he talks about his history and ...

Bought by WVAS