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Sixty years ago, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most iconic speech. "I have a dream,” he said, “that my four little children wil...
Bought by WMUU-LP and WNED Buffalo
- Added: May 01, 2023
- Length: 54:02
- Purchases: 2
Our show is about William Monroe Trotter, owner and editor of the Boston Guardian from 1901 to 1934, and a radical race-first political agitator. K...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
In her book, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Kellie Carter Jackson contends that the history of abolitionism, ...
- Added: Feb 19, 2020
- Length: 59:00
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 58:31
Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...
Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Celebrating Influential African American Albums From The Civil Rights Era To Present- Day
- Added: Apr 21, 2018
- Length: 01:07:12
Cornelius Eady reenacts a scene of racial discrimination from the film A Raisin in the Sun.
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
William Hosea and special guest host Beverly Calendar-Anderson are joined by Michael Duerson, brother of the former NFL standout Dave Duerson – who...
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 41:31
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Jan 19, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A dialogue between Princeton University professor Cornel West, and Revolutionary Communist Party USA spokesman Carl Dix about the future of America...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...
- Added: Oct 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Riots all over the world are calling on us to get involved in societal change. But what kind of action is needed, and how do we create real change?...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Oct 17, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:33
- Purchases: 16
An interview with James Lawson, the chief architect of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, and confidant to Martin Luther King. Lawson touches on every...
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Best selling author James Loewen discusses his new book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
- Added: Nov 11, 2005
- Length: 05:22
