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Can righting society's past wrongs help us heal from historical harm?

Bought by KMXT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, KSTK, KOWS and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 10
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Student activists in York, Pennsylvania organized a silent protest when hundreds of books were banned from their classrooms, paving the way for las...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:10
Caption: State Senator Jennifer McClellan, Credit: Charles McGuigan
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 26:48
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Nearly half of people who leave prison will end up back behind bars. Why don't they stay out? And how would their lives be different if no criminal...

Bought by KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
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Charlottesville resident, Lisa Woolfork, was in the crowd of counter-protesters at the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017. Five years later, she talke...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Topic 1: Hunger Games Revolution Symbol Evolves in Real-World Asian Protests; Topic 2: Why There Are So Many Golden Arches in Black Communities; To...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 51:37
  • Purchases: 3
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In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:17
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Topic 1 - Civil Rights Filmmaker Takes on Voter Suppression in “After Selma.” Topic 2 - Connecting with Nature through Professional Tree Climbing. ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, and KOWS


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 51:51
  • Purchases: 3
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We hear from artist william cordova about the 2014 documentary "silent parade," featuring the New Orleans band, The Soul Rebels, who faced off Robe...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 19:45
Caption: Rose Simmons
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 27:51
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How do you speak the truth with grace? Radical musician, theologian, and activist Rev. Sekou speaks about how he learned to fight white supremacy a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 41:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Rep. James Clyburn speaks with his granddaughter, Sydney Reed, about the lessons he’s learned from success and failure.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:04
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John Lewis remembers how Dr. King’s words inspired him to join the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WYAP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 8
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We don'y just plant the seeds so we can eat the fruit. We plant the seeds so the fruit will be there for generations.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Virginia State Penitentiary
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:05
Caption: Elizabeth Vega and Jamell Spann at their StoryCorps interview in St. Louis, Missouri on June 27, 2019. , Credit: Dupe Oyebolu for StoryCorps
Five years after they met in Ferguson protesting the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by police officer Darren Wilson, Jamell Spann and Elizabeth Vega ...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, KVNF, and WHRV


  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Protesters and counter protesters, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 26:39
Caption:  Carol Barne---Seay, Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis
In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay , Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for p...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:02
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What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights an...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 56:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Darian Wyatt., Credit: Charles McGuigan
At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 2
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I opened the door and tried to push him out. That’s when he fired the first shot.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
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See all these blankets and quilts and stuff? I got enough in here to keep me warm.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Dion Diamond talks about the risks he took as a young civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Look around. Change is happening. People you know and people you pass on the street are in transition. They are transforming their lives. Unless yo...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:10:04
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Coming home from prison, it’s kind of hard to find a job. But I didn’t let that get to me. This is a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2017
  • Length: 04:20