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Tupac Shakur on Life and Death
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur in 1994. From an unheard interview recorded by Benjamin Svetkey, then a writer for...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVNF, KJZZ, PRX Remix, and KALW


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 5
Micah Tron
From: KALW
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Micah Tron is a rapper born and raised in San Francisco. She’s a queer woman of color, but the hurdles she has faced go even beyond her race, sexua...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 1
Lucy Parsons
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:33
Laura Smith Haviland
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
Fannie Lou Hamer
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Susie King Taylor
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
Mamie Till
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:30
Nzingha
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
Steve Edwards Soul Show(36) The Fusion Special Meets The Contemporary Spotlight In Jazz! Live On The Phone Mr Will Downing!
From: Steve Edwards
Series: Steve Edwards Soul Show 2012 Series
Caption: Will Downing & Friends, Credit: Steve Edwards
Its another blockbuster of music mayhem on the soul show with an archive feature of one of the best funk bands to come out of Dayton Ohio- Slave. T...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:59:54
  • Purchases: 1
Florynce Kennedy
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:18
Little Mogadishu
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
Caption: Trudy's Bar, Credit: Alex Stonehill
King County is home to one of the country's largest populations of Somalis. They've been fleeing since the Somali government collapsed in 1991. The...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:45
The Mathis Twins Tell Their Story About Their Journey In and Out of Gang Life
From: Candice Ludlow
Series: Gangs in the City
Caption: Mathis twins show high school students that gang life is a oneway ticket to a coffin or a jail cell., Credit: Candice Ludlow
Bryan and Brandon Mathis got involved in the world of gangs and running drugs when they were very young. They tell their story about how they got ...

  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 09:07
Pro-Slavery Constitution
From: Zach Miller
Series: BeyondtheBlackLetter
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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
Off The Lawn, Mr. Bigot!
From: Bryan Cox
Series: Hey Get Off My Lawn
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Comedian Darryl Littleton...wrote the book on "Black Comedians on Black Comedy". If you're a Bigot, you won't like the next 5 minutes.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
A Conversation with Chuck Brown
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Do you feel like busting loose? NEA Heritage Fellow Chuck Brown talks about his career, from honing his chops in prison in Lorton, Virginia, to dev...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:49
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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One hour special follows the creation and influence of Miles Davis' heaviest album.

Bought by WICR, WOMR, KPSQ-LP, WSKG, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 27
Straight Outta Gary: Rapper Freddie Gibbs
From: Avishay Artsy
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From the urban ghetto of the American Midwest, one of the most promising rappers rising through the ranks right now is Freddie Gibbs. He comes from...

Bought by Vocalo.org


  • Added: Aug 03, 2010
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 1
Detroit: paying the piper, calling the tune?
From: Learning Matters
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Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb was brought in to fix a school system that's a big mess. But who's paying his salary? Private foundations t...

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 05:18
Bandit Barriers Signal Gentrification in Oakland
From: Abbie Fentress Swanson
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A story about how those thick Plexiglas walls come down in an Oakland, California neighborhood as more white folks move in.

  • Added: May 08, 2010
  • Length: 07:00
Wake Up Call by Malcolm "Mr. Diversity" London
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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Malcolm is a junior at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago. He competed in the final round of competition in the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetr...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 2
21 Dollar Father by Montrel Marks
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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A sophomore at TEAM Englewood Community Academy High School on Chicago's south side, Montrel competed in the finals of the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb ...

Bought by KUER, Vocalo.org, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 3
A Poet's Prayer by Team Englewood
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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Team Englewood is Johnathan Nesbitt, Myara Robinson, Keith "Blu" Warfield, and Melana Bass, all students at Team Englewood Community Academy on Chi...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Harajuku Hyphen by Darius Parker
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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Darius is a senior at Truman Middle College Alternative High School, and a member of Team Kuumba Lynx, which is an arts-in-education, not-for-profi...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 2
THE LANGUAGE OF RACE
From: Voices of Our World
Caption: John McWhorter
Does the conventional language used to discuss race actually impede our attempts to reach mutual understanding? We discuss the language of race wit...

Bought by KWMR, WGBH Radio Boston, and WTIP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 3
Copenhagen: America & Africa in Climate Decline
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Paul Kingsnorth
The Copenhagen mess. Guest Paul Kingsnorth says civilization IS climate change. Nobody wants to change Western comforts. Opens with a digest of alt...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1