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'Ferguson October' Civil Disobedience Protests Target Police Violence in Communities of Color Nationwide; Report on Abuse of Adolescent Inmates in...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Author Sam Roberts reads about a civil rights pioneer indeed, from his new book. Another example of our daily 100-second show -- great for top-of-t...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Tonight’s program seeks to shine a light first on what’s been called the “militarization” of police across the country due to something like a fede...
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 57:53
Last June, the U.S. Congress made a landmark decision to pass immigration reform. The new law eliminates the Diversity Immigrant Lottery Visa, also...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 07:07
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
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...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 11:30
- Purchases: 2
Whether looking at the 1920s or 2013, people's behavior and attitudes toward race are often influenced by factors beyond their own experience and c...
- Added: Nov 21, 2013
- Length: 15:45
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian William P. Jones talks with host Brian Balogh about the origins of the march idea, first floated during a campaign against employment dis...
Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 09:17
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian David Blight talks with host Ed Ayers about the continuing impact of the Civil War in shaping the context within which the march took pla...
Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 12:22
- Purchases: 2
Check out Makalah's piece about the Trayvon Martin vigil she attended last week. She talks about her experience and asks citizens about their view ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2013
- Length: 04:52
My Choice My Voice teen Yamaan interviews his father about his time in jail and how he turned that all around to become a successful college student.
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 06:01
My Choice My Voice teen describes his high school visit to a women's prison in Louisiana.
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 02:20
On June 23, 1963, labor and church leaders organized tens of thousands of people in Detroit for the Great March to Freedom. Dr. Martin Luther King ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 22, 2013
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
BackStory producers Eric Mennel and Nell Boeschenstein visit Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia to tell the story of a monument in honor of Heyward Shep...
Bought by WABE and Radio Newark
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 10:49
- Purchases: 2
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:01
On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 2
Historical perspective on the Civil War and its effect on average Americans.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 01:51:07
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
jim justice speaks with Gerald Hankerson and Teresa Clark of Washington Community Action Network (CAN!), Clint Weckerly of SeaMar, and Rev. Josefin...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 27:59
It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 29:01
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
The War on Drugs has made America the world's leading jailer. Increasingly, the casualties of the drug war are speaking out.
- Added: Mar 11, 2012
- Length: 12:39
On this edition, author and political science professor Melissa Harris-Perry speaks about the stereotypes black women face, the resulting impacts o...
Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WCPN, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, KHNS and more
- Added: Dec 16, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
Jamaica has a long history of police violence and corruption. In May 2010 a government crackdown left 73 people dead and a city in chaos. The major...
Bought by KRUA
- Added: May 23, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Since the 1960s, writer and producer Nat Hentoff has confronted the question "Is jazz black music.' He discusses the issue in a 2008 conversation w...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more
- Added: May 03, 2011
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 6
