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Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WJCU
- Added: Jun 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
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
Thomas Mullen is the author of The Lightning Men, Darktown, and The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA TODAY. To l...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 15:39
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
The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Psychiatrist, philosopher, writer, activist and insurgent, Frantz Fanon influenced such revolutionary leaders as Malcolm X and Che Guevara. Fanon ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 57:30
James Hannaham is an author, part-time conceptual artist, journalist, and teacher.
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 17:27
Tonight’s show, Shadows are Black: Slavery’s Long Setting, features a discussion on the text and context of Herman Melville’s 1855 novella “Benito ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 57:12
Kwame Ture, once known as Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinadad, later moving to the United States at the age of eleven. He would become a lead...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00:35
- Purchases: 1
We remember the Nobel Prize-winning South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who passed away on July 13, 2014. In this 1994 interview with former NEW ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 23:45
- 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
