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We talk with Michael Wolraich about his book, The Bishop And The Butterfly: Murder, Politics, And The End Of The Jazz Age. Then, we re-air part of ...
- Added: Mar 24, 2024
- Length: 01:10:45
History is made by the daily decisions of regular people. One family's story of the Great Migration.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 52:50
Black Soldiers of Utah was an exhibit on display in Utah showcasing and exploring the often untold history of black soldiers and veterans and how t...
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- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 05:38
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- Added: Sep 20, 2023
- Length: 52:48
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Empathy For Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "Everything is Exhaus...
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...
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- Added: Feb 02, 2022
- Length: 28:00
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...
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- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 08:56
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In the 1940s, Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon and blood scientist, and today he is known as the “Father of Blood Banks.” His daughter, Dr. Charlene ...
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- Added: Aug 09, 2021
- Length: 02:55
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HOUR ONE: "African Cities Of The Future" - The fastest growing cities in the world are in Africa. We'll take you there with a special TTBOOK from A...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...
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- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 59:01
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This time on Peace Talks Radio, we’ll talk about ways that countries have addressed systematic human rights violations after they emerge from perio...
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- Added: Apr 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
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The number of Black-owned farms has drastically declined since the 1920s, and now make up less than two percent of total U.S. farmland. In this epi...
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- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 21:23
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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
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On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls took command of a Confederate ship and liberated himself and his family from enslavement. His great-great-grandson, ...
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 29:27
“The police had surrounded the house. They had been there for quite a while. They didn’t want to try to rush the house because they thought he migh...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 29:07
Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess reads from his multi-award winning poetry book, OLIO, delving into the voices of African American creatives in ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Where can the experiences of black men and boys be told and justified? Perhaps not within academia...
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- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 27:30
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From: John Shuck
A "Bottom-Up" history of the U.S. from an African-American and Latinx viewpoint.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WJAB
- Added: Jun 04, 2018
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Hip Hop Future" - "Straight Outta Compton" turns 30 this year and hip hop has more influence than ever. What will it change next? HOUR...
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 01:58:59
A discussion about the groundbreaking PBS documentary about The Black Panthers.
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 37:16
Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton explores the education of famous artists John Biggers and Samella Lewis.
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 50:20
A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...
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- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: :30
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