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Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.
- Added: May 14, 2023
- Length: 56:58
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
Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most original, impactful, and complex figures of the 20th century. Revered around the world for his activism, self-s...
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 01:27:39
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...
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- 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
We don'y just plant the seeds so we can eat the fruit. We plant the seeds so the fruit will be there for generations.
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- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 1
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
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 14:55
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
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter reflections on humanity, the end of policing and her new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORI...
Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, WFHB, and WVAS
- Added: Mar 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
How are algorithms and data science making their way into the American criminal justice system?
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 32:20
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
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Jeremiah Williams, better known as Flag Boy Twin, may have left New Orleans, but he brought his rich heritage as a Mardi Gras Indian with him. Part...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 1
Pamela Spoto, educator and Peace and Justice advocate, co-hosts again. Our guest is Kevin Alexander Gray. He is is a civil rights organizer and a...
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- Added: May 30, 2016
- Length: 59:13
- Purchases: 1
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
Scholar Walidah Imarisha talks about the racial messages of movies like The Jungle Book.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 14:07
- Purchases: 1
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
Mauro Oliviera, local activist and producer of Smallworldradio.net, co-hosts with me today. Our guest is direct action activist and organizer, Cat...
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 58:54
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
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
Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 2
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...
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- Added: Jan 19, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
