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This Black History Month special episode features the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-so...
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- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 11
Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 51:30
Today in part two of a two-part episode, Dr. Lewis discusses their experiences in academia. Dr. Moten is a Black Feminist Historian who specializes...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 27:00
Writer Charmaine Wilkerson discusses her bestselling debut novel, "Black Cake."
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio and more
- Added: Apr 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Crystal Chandler finds the perfect memento of her grandfather, a former Seventh Day Adventist pastor, to take with her when she moves to New York.
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 18:26
If Black Lives Matter, how are journalists and media organizations considering Black pain in their coverage? And how are journalists and editors ac...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, and KDNK
- Added: Aug 24, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
S. A. Cosby is a novelist who lives in Virginia.
- Added: Aug 12, 2021
- Length: 13:15
The subversive, healing, and celebratory powers of music and media are at the heart of this week’s conversation, featuring Saida Pagán, a contribut...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
James Baldwin was one of the 20th century’s most incisive thinkers and writers. In our own era, as political rhetoric, state violence, and popular ...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
When it comes to racism, many white Americans can intellectualize it and some can personalize it through the experience of others but the real chan...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 01:59:05
His lynching was said to have propelled the Civil Rights Movement but what really happened to the 14 year old boy from Chicago and what can we lear...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 01:47:41
Her book is back on the NYT Best Seller list and for a very good reason. “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” as been called both ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 02:17:15
Who should own the narrative when it comes to talking about slavery and Jim Crow? Lance Wheeler, is the former Curator of Exhibition & Interpreters...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 53:24
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The United States government has a history of paying reparations to those who have been wronged but with one very striking exception: slavery. Shou...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 46:41
Black History Month was official recognized in 1976 by President Gerald Ford and ever since then whites have asked why it is necessary. Today, do w...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 42:41