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The N-Word
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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The n-word is loaded with a history of hate and death. Today, the word's meaning has transformed but the echoes of its past remain. Who's word is i...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:33:06
The White Savior Complex
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Is there a subconscious belief amongst whites that only they can "save" people of color? Have they been conditioned by society to see themselves as...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:34:42
Can Blacks Be Racist?
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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When white people are called out on their racism a response one often hears is, "Well, Black people are just as racist again me." Is racism the exc...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:08:24
Who’s the Real Victim of Racism?
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Whites too often see themselves as the real victims of racism and they might have point but it’s not the one they thought they were making. Are whi...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:32
It's the Wrong Time to be Right
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Many of us want to help change the narrative and be anti-racist partners in the good fight. This was true of civil rights activists coming to Missi...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:14:23
Diversifying Higher Education
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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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
Black & Blue: Policing and Blacks Lives in America
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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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
Racial Battle Fatigue: A Discussion with Dr. William A. Smith
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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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
Bringing the Klan to Justice: A Discussion with Jerry Mitchell
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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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
The Talk
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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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
Episode Three: Aftermath
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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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
Episode One: Invisible History
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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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
Episode Two: Recovering History
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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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
The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America, Demo
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 9
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
Making Obama: Part 2
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
2017-All Mixed Up (Part Two)
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Dick Gregory
The retrospective of 2017 continues with mixes from Charlottesville to Washington with music and emotions from a turbulent year

Bought by KDUR


  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:03
  • Purchases: 1
Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress
Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 8
Freeman Vines: The Hanging Tree Guitar
From: Music Maker Relief Foundation
Series: Music Maker Minute - Race in U.S.
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Luthier, Freeman Vines talks about the guitar he's building from the wood of the old hanging tree.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 09:15
Big Ron Hunter: Coming In to Eat
From: Music Maker Relief Foundation
Series: Music Maker Minute - Race in U.S.
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Big Ron Hunter is invited inside to eat with his friends.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 11:08
The Name of God
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 47:05
Black History Matters: Black and Proud
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint
Black and Proud explores the era when African Americans began to aggressively challenge myths of inferiority. As Martha Bouyer, a participant in th...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KISU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 6
Black History Matters: Racial Propaganda
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
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Harvard Professor Emertus, Psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint discusses the long history of efforts to undermine the self-esteem and well-being of black ...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 4
Martin Luther King, Jr (A Musical Remembrance)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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This one hour musical program commemorates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The play-list consists of some of the world's greatest Jazz mus...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WNMU-FM, WORT, KTEP, KRCU Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2016
  • Length: 01:05:59
  • Purchases: 18