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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...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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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 ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Some historical recordings from another era.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
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A revisit to a great album by Buddy Guy recorded in 2001.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:54
Caption: Jorge Garza has created an Azteca pop series based on front line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic., Credit: Jorge Garza
Up next on Making Contact we turn our attention to those Americans who are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus fallout. According to the CDC, Blac...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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We explore how Jim Crow maintains a strong legacy even today in the segregation of the American labor market. And:Now is the ideal time for work...

Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WLPR , WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Women at Work
Jim Crow maintains a strong legacy even today in the segregation of the American labor market. Historian Steven Reich suggests ways to change that.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Kansas Public Radio, WJCT, KRDP, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "In Search Of Real Food...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:57
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A collection of Blues songs that have relevance to current issues in 2020

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:13
Caption: Virgil Williams, Credit: Austin Film Festival
This week on On Story we’ll hear from some of the writing team behind the first season of the immensely popular Fox drama series EMPIRE and later w...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
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Margaret and Matilda Roumania Peters were sisters and tennis champions in the 1930s, long before Serena and Venus Williams. While still in high sch...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
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A virtual trip back in time to November 21st, 1964 to Chicago's Regal Theater to hear B.B. King

  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:49
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White Supremacy and the Covid crisis aren’t separate. They’re linked. Defunding public health services and deregulating gun ownership have been ca...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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June is African-American Music Appreciation Month - originally proclaimed as Black Music Month by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. We’ll expand on t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Singleton, Credit: Austin Film Festival
This week on On Story, two critically and culturally acclaimed African-American directors: John Singleton and Charles Burnett. First, we look back ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
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A career spanning 50 years, Robert Cray is a major mainstay in the world of Blues music.

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:58
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HOUR ONE: "Our Virtual Reality" - One of the most popular video games during the pandemic is "Animal Crossing." Can our virtual existence give us r...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
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A great album from 1999. The album is "Double Shot" by Snooky Pryor and Mel Brown.

  • Added: May 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
Caption: Sonny Boy II
Rice Miller is probably the more known "Sonny Boy Williamson" although there was previously to his time an actual Blues harmonica player who's went...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:19
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HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Meet?" - Studies show we're all disappointed with our friendships. Is it time to rethink the way we gather? HOUR TWO: "Hip H...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
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The Gould Piano Trio play Ravel's piano trio, and Er-Gene Kahng plays the 2nd violin concerto by Florence Price

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
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On Feb 3rd, 1945, The all women of color, Six-Triple-Eight, was sent overseas to clear a two year backlog of mail. They were told it would take six...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Bob Kustra interviews Esi Edugyan about her novel "Washington Black"

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 30:16
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At the age of 42, Bridget Mason won a court case in California that freed her and her daughters from slavery. She went on to become a California re...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:14