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A Jazz-Age Murder That Toppled Gotham’s Mayor

From: Francesca Rheannon

We talk with Michael Wolraich about his book, The Bishop And The Butterfly: Murder, Politics, And The End Of The Jazz Age. Then, we re-air part of ...

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: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer at their StoryCorps interview in Saint Clair Shores, MI, and Sparks, NV, on Feb. 6, 2022. , Credit: By StoryCorps

Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Bought by Vermont Public

National Writers Series: Rochelle Riley and Chris Bohjalian

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three

Discussions with authors Rochelle Riley and Chris Bohjalian.

Bought by WKAR, Michigan Radio, and WKAR

Poet Elizabeth Alexander

From: New Letters on the Air

Obama's 2009 Presidential Inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander captures African-American voices and traditions from slavery to the present in her boo...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Out in the Cold: The Political Imaginary of the Unhomed in the Great Depression

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: An eviction protest in New York City dated Jan. 11, 1933.

As protests over the killing of George Floyd have taken over the streets of every major city, have converted hotels to homeless shelters and best f...

88-01: Why Rosie the Riveter is "Not My Icon” - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

For the past decade, now 98-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Rivete...

Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, WLRH, KWIT, KKRN and more

World in Progress 03/12/2020

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: Fighting slavery worldwide - In this edition: Millions of people are forced to toil in forms of modern slavery across the ...

StoryCorps Griot: Janis Porter and Olivia Hooker

From: StoryCorps

Dr. Olivia Hooker, who lived to be 103, sat down with her goddaughter Janis Porter to discuss her groundbreaking life as the first African American...

Dorothy Cotton on MLK's Legacy (Ms. Cotton Passed 6/10/18)

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes

Dr. Dorothy Cotton, one of Martin Luther King's top colleagues in the civil rights movement, passed away at her home in Ithica, New York, Sunday, J...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

88: Why Rosie the Riveter is "not my icon" - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

For the past decade, 96-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Riveter/WW...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KUT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Big Talk! w/ Michael Glab: Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde

From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News

Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde is a healer, a poet, and a black studies practitioner. Abegunde is a co-director of a month-long series of readings a...

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

Women's History Month: Women of the Civil War

From: Francesca Rheannon

Karen Abbott talks about her book Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy. It’s about four courageous women of the Civil War who made history. And later, we ...

Bought by KUHF, KWMU St. Louis, KUOW, KTSW 89.9, High Plains Public Radio and more

Leroy Moton Remembers Viola Luizzo Murder as Civil Rights Turning Point

From: Sara Karl

Caption: Leroy Moton in 1965, Credit: Encyclopedia of Alabama

Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.

Crime novelist Neely Tucker and "The Ways of the Dead"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

This first in a new mystery series is written by a veteran Washington Post reporter and is based on a true crime, the Princeton Place Murders, that...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

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...

Miss Anne in Harlem

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

White upper-class women seeking to become honorary blacks. Unheard of –right? That’s what began to happen during what became known as the Black Ren...

Bought by KCBX

A Visit with Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Radio Curious visits with Chautauqua scholars Sally Wagner & Charles Pace who portray Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass. The two friends...

Author Kathryn Stockett and "The Help"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Kathryn's debut novel, "The Help," is a black-white history lesson that's never been told quite like this before. Through the lives of several wome...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio