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Caption: Phillips Committee resident Richard Habersham, Credit: Paige Polk
In Charleston, South Carolina and its suburbs questions of environmental justice and wetland protections arise as development encroaches.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 33:46
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The question of whether and how to compensate descendants of people formerly enslaved in the United States has hung over the country since the end ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
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New economic research reveals how difficult it is for some people to gain wealth in America, even when they do everything right.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:08
Caption: Paul Ortiz
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
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When NASA wanted to put a man on the moon, they naturally turned to the brightest — and whitest. That is, until the brilliant Katherine Johnson dem...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: On The Bus
History doesn't stay in the past.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Presbyterian church in Vardy, Tennessee, was a community center for some Melungeon families. , Credit: Mary Helen Miller
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WTJU


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 16:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Producer Dred-Scott Keyes looks at the life and music of poet, musician and composer, Gil Scott-Heron, who passed in New York City on May 27th.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:03
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Burgundy Farm School was desegregated 4 years before Brown v. Board

Bought by WCSU-FM, WTJU, 90.5 WSNC, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 06, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 4