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Fire and Tears
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Dr Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop
The Legacy of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and A Sermon to White America

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Blues America 86 - Jerry Lawson
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Jerry Lawson is a singing legend who fronted the world famous Persuasions for 40 plus years. As their lead singer he produced and arranged 22 album...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio, KRPS, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:03
  • Purchases: 6
Blues America 83 - Bobby Rush
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Speaking backstage with the “King of the Chitlin’ Circuit”, the Living Legend, Bobby Rush. One of the last of his era, Rush estimates that he has c...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, KDLG, WEAA, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 11
RDD: African American Legacy
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Unveiled in 2004, the African American Legacy Project (AALP) of Northwest Ohio, has been documenting and preserving the history of Northwest Ohio's...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 2
Joe Ide discusses "IQ"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Joe Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles. This is his first novel.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 08:54
Blues America 60 - Jerry Lawson Series
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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The Jerry Lawson Legacy Project is an exclusive series for Blues America that explores the history of singing legend Jerry Lawson and the famed Per...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
No One Was Thinking that Cop Has Kids at Home
From: Vivian Chum
Series: A Matter of Black Lives: Mothers and Fathers
Caption: Antonio McKinney
As an African-American and the son of a police officer in Shreveport, LA, Antonio McKinney offers a nuanced view of the relationship between Africa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2016
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
Just Another Man Trying to Hit My Mama
From: Vivian Chum
Series: A Matter of Black Lives: Mothers and Fathers
Caption: Khiari Benson
Khiari Benson recalls coming to his mother's defense when a police officer attacked her. He was just five years old. "I didn't see the badge. I d...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2016
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
Lynchings on Loop: How Terror Goes Viral
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anti-lynching banner flew outside NAACP headquarters in midtown Manhattan from the early 1900s until 1938. , Credit: (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/COURTESY OF THE NAACP)
For “Lynchings on Loop” Courtney Baker, author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death joins us to talk about ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret Basketball Game That Desegregated Louisiana High School Sports
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Purple Knights pose on the court; Harold Sylvester is kneeling next to his coach., Credit: HAROLD SYLVESTER / AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER
In this episode, Laine Kaplan-Levenson discusses the first integrated high school sports contest in Louisiana between St. Aug and Jesuit--and talks...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:26
  • Purchases: 1
Veteran Twin Cities Blues Artist Leads 7-Piece Group into Crooner's in Fridley
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Wee Willie Walker, Credit: Doug Knutson
Wee Willie Walker arrived in St Paul around 1960. Willie has had and has a long career in music, including singing Doo-wop, gospel music and down-h...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blues America 39 - Paul Oscher
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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In 1967 Paul Oscher became the first white musician to join a black blues group when he was invited to be an official member of the Muddy Waters Ba...

Bought by Public Radio East, KDLG, KRPS, GCR (Global Community Radio), Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Blues America 37 - Jerry Lawson Project 3
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Jerry Lawson was the lead singer, arranger and producer of the famed Persuasions for 40 years before launching a solo career at the age of 71.

Bought by Public Radio East, KDLG, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Author Bill Natale on His New Book and Race Relations in Chicago
From: Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano
Series: The Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano
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Author of "1968: A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then", Bill Natale sits down to discuss race relations in Chicago and his new book with Elysab...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 47:02
Blues America 27 - Alabama Mike
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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The downhome blues singer Alabama Mike is a “church house” tenor who was a Blues Award nominee for Traditional Male Artist of the Year by the Blues...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, KDLG, WEAA and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 54:20
  • Purchases: 6
Embodied By Prisons: First the Whip, Then the Chains, and Then...
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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What comes after Whips and Chains? Solitary confinement. Lisa Guenther of Vanderbilt University discusses the reformist good intentions of Benjamin...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:45
Brief: Michael Honey on Love, Solidarity, and the Black Freedom Song
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Michael Honey discusses non-violent theorist and organizer James Lawson, and John Handcox, the Great Depression-era tenant farmer and union advocate.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 25:20
  • Purchases: 1
Waking Up: A short play by Cori Thomas
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Lynette Freeman
A perfect choice for Breast Cancer Awareness month is Waking Up by Cori Thomas. It juxtaposes the experiences of an American urbanite's and an Afri...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 18:02
The United States of Apartheid: Gerald Horne On the White Supremacist Project
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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For tonight’s show, "The United States of Apartheid," we welcome Gerald Horne.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:15
Neill Franklin: The Drug War in Baltimore
From: Elias Schutzman
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Veteran police major and executive director of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) Neill Franklin discuss his journey from being Drug War en...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 15:06
American Book Award-winning Poet Nikki Giovanni
From: New Letters on the Air
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The infamous poet Nikki Giovanni reads from her recent books, CHASING UTOPIA, BICYCLES, and ACOLYTES and discusses the influence of history, commun...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WMUU-LP, WNJR, and WABE


  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Joe R. Landsdale discusses "Paradise Sky"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
Caption: Paradise Sky
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than three dozen novels, including The Thicket, Edge of Dark Water, The Bottoms, and A Fine Dark Line. He has...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 15:19
StoryCorps: William Watford and Deidre Robinson
From: StoryCorps
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Many families with LGBTQ members across generations are personally familiar with the “coming out” conversation. Deidra Robinson and her father, Wi...

  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:02
What do High Schoolers’ think about Affirmative Action?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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A common topic among high schoolers when discussing the college application process and admittance is race. Listen to hear the opinions on affirmat...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:07
J. California Cooper: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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Short Description: We honor the life of the playwright and American Book Award-winning fiction writer J. California Cooper, who passed away Septemb...

Bought by WCPN and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2

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