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198: Mary McLeod Bethune
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves and a founder of Bethune-Cookman University. She was often the only woman of color with a sea...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 1
In Junction
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today we're headed to the Junction neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio to talk to Alicia Smith. She's the executive director of The Junction Coalition, a ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:13
Black Cowboys
From: Black Mountain Radio
Series: Black Mountain Radio
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Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:06
Shut Up And Listen
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Vaccine Hesitant
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How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history? Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...

Bought by WFHB and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Rescuing the Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Cover of Economy Hall
Join us as author Fatima Shaik uncovers the hidden history of a free Black brotherhood that was almost lost forever.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 24:52
Experiencing the fight for freedom along the U.S. Civil Rights Trail
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Kelly Ingram Park, Credit: Courtesy Pixabay
Join World Footprints as we explore the story of Black Americans’ fight for freedom and equality with U.S. Civil Rights Trail guide author Deborah ...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 30:54
  • Purchases: 1
EP103 Tribute to Otis Rush
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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On September 29 of 2018 the Blues world lost one of it’s Iconic artists of the West-side Chicago Blues sound Otis Rush. Although he had not perform...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:32
Fair Bluff
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Storm Stories
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Gloria's home was lost in not one but two hurricanes. This is her story.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2020
  • Length: 08:50
Our Garbage, Ourselves
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 20:50
  • Purchases: 1
Inside North Carolina's Outer Banks
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Pea Island marker., Credit: Photo by Tonya Fitzpatrick
North Carolina’s Outer Banks offers everything from open-sea beaches, theatre, wildlife preserves and popular shipwreck diving sites to down home c...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:55
"Rude, Crude and Crass: The Rise of the Right in America-Part Two
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
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An audio collage of the development of the Klan, the Alt. Right and White Supremacy in the U.S.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 53:48
RDD: Dignity and Respect
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're meeting with Heather Hall, the Director of Advocacy for ABLE, the Advocates for Basic Legal Equality. A...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: A Man And His Bass (part 2)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley gets acquainted with one of Toledo's Jazz Icons, Clifford Murphy. Clifford is known for playing i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: A Man And His Bass (part 1)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley gets acquainted with one of Toledo's Jazz Icons, Clifford Murphy. Clifford is known for playing i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: A Conversation with Pete Culp
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on the RDD, Haley meets with Pete Culp, a member of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board of directors. Baldemar Velasquez nominat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
"The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America" with Michael Eric Dyson. Recorded at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Schomburg tapes
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Michael Eric Dyson's new book, "The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America", explores the powerful, surprising way the p...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:14
The real history behind Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco's Voodoo Queen
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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In the mid 1800’s, boomtown-San Francisco was a city of men, only about 15 percent women. Slavery was illegal in the West but still-- white men wer...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 10:30
  • Purchases: 1
"Fire Fight: The Struggle To Integrate NYC's Fire Department"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In NYC, African-Americans make up nearly 26% of the population but make up less than 4% of the NYC Fire Department. For the past 150 years, the cit...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:01
George Fletcher at the 1911 Pendleton Roundup
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The true story of American Black cowboy, George Fletcher and Indian cowboy, Jackson Sundown, at the 1911 Pendleton Roundup.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
Madame C. J. Walker
From: Brian Hawkins
Series: Heroes in Black History
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America's first African American female millionaire.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KBEM, KSKA, RadioStPete Florida, KETR-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 8
Along Saint Claude
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: Eppy Livaccari, Credit: Jonathan Traviesa
Gentrification is just the newest name for the changes happening in New Orleans' neighborhoods downriver from the French Quarter. Along Saint Claud...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
You Are How You Sound
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
Linguistic Insights
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 2
Confronting the Middle Passage
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
Caption: Brooks of Liverpool, 1789, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Dr. Sowande' Mustakeem reveals the forgotten world of 18th century slave ships, sharing the story of one enslaved woman and discussing why it's so ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 11:31
  • Purchases: 1
Rock and Revolution
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
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Associate professor Patrick Burke reveals how musicians in the 1960s, including the rock band the Godz, resisted predetermined categories and simpl...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 14:00