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The Trayvon Martin Story: A Cutting Edge Special
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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Award-winning producer, Dred-Scott Keyes takes us through an audio journey of the events and issues which led to the death of Trayvon Martin, the 1...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 58:30
Racial Innocence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: New York University Press, Credit: Trade card for Cottolene
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 19:53
"Death Be Not Proud: The Execution of Troy Davis"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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This special edition of "The Cutting Edge", looks at the trial, resistance and execution of Troy Davis, who was convicted of the killing of an off-...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 56:30
A Conversation with Charles Randolph-Wright
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Charles Randolph-Wright talks about directing Lynn Nottage's play Ruined at Arena Stage.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:38
"The Savage City; Race, Murder and A Generation On The Edge"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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Author T.J. English looks at NYC in the late 60's and 70's and the tense relationship created between the police and NYC's growing communities of c...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 52:09
Aaron Kelly's Bones
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: Wednesday's African Child: Goth Tales of My Black People
Caption: Imakhu, from her show, "Wednesday's African Child"
Storyteller Imakhu's popular African American version of this classic comical folktale about a hateful man who will not die. From Imakhu's one-woma...

Bought by KUT and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2010
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 2
Interview with Poet Yusef Komunyakaa
From: Elizabeth Austen
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Poet Yusef Komunyakaa reads from and discusses his latest collection, WARHORSES (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2008).

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 16:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Lyncher in Me
From: KUOW
Series: Sound Focus
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In June 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, a mob of over 10,000 convened upon the police station, inflamed by the rumor that black circus workers had rape...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2008
  • Length: 18:26
Do You Like the Curtains?
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: The Best of Queen Mother Imakhu
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Queen Mother Imakhu gives homage to African American southern "hant" tales in this original, humorous, and eerie rendition of a true urban story.

Bought by KUT, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 3
Southwest Side Stories: The Tracks On Trumbull
From: ashley woods
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The death of a man who crossed the tracks.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2006
  • Length: 01:41
Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse
From: Sound Portraits
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LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's exploration of the murder of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was pushed to his death from a 14th-floor window by tw...

Bought by KUT, KUT, KUT, Remix Radio, and KUER


  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 40:14
  • Purchases: 5