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Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men. It ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2015
- Length: 21:41
- Purchases: 2
KVSC Radio at St. Cloud State University presents Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings.
On the evening of June 15, 1920, a crowd of thousands attack...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Guitar activist and legendary improvisor James Blood Ulmer discusses his early life, Jimi Hendrix, black history, and much more in this one-hour mu...
- Added: Mar 02, 2015
- Length: 58:58
The first of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 01:45
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
Musician George Clinton has written his memoirs in a new book ”Brotha Be Like, Yo George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You?”. He was recently ...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:00:28
The last mass lynching in the U.S. took place back in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. The case remains open, but one group stages an annual re-enactment i...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 08:59
- Purchases: 1
This reading is a passage describing two giraffes seen in crates on a ship bound for Germany.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 03:49
Former Baltimore police officer Mytokia Fair remembers the day she shot and killed her abusive...
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 3
IN THIS EDITION OF THE CUTTING EDGE, WE BRING YOU A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HISTORIAN ERIC FONER AND SYLVIAN DIOUF, AUTHOR OF “SLAVERY’S EXILES: THE STORY...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:56
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 2
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:52
- Purchases: 1
Michigan has always been home to a number of bustling American enterprises, including the prison industry. Each year, the state's correctional faci...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:27
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 04, 2013
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 1
Melvin talks about what it's like being from New Orleans.
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 01:20
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.
Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 6
Songs and my rants about the heart and soul of New Orleans plus the usual (unusual?) music you never heard by musicians you've never heard of.
- Added: Jan 27, 2013
- Length: 02:40:52
The second of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 01:05
The final piece in a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:47
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:05
Former Traveling Vice Lord talks about how he got involved in gangs to being imprisoned for transporting a couple kilos of marijuana to deciding to...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 1
The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 20:25
- Purchases: 3
