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Gay teenager attends a Black Lives Matter protest in a suburb of NYC.
- Added: Jul 31, 2020
- Length: 08:15
An historical and musical examination of the history of lynching and racial protest over the past 100 years.
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 58:02
Johnny Tucker was a sideman for many bands over the years beofre goinf solo. Now he has another album of his own to share with us today.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:08
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
The President is the country’s Commander-in-chief – but the most recent uproar over alleged racially offensive remarks in the White House threaten ...
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 02:59
RadioActive youth producers take a look at one of the most important things in their lives: school.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 12:12
"When you're born, they call you a lighty, and it's praised."
RadioActive Youth Producers Ahlaam Ibraahim and Esa Tilija explore the world of colo...
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 14:18
Poet Natalie Richardson, 17, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third time this ye...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KRZA
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 2
Poet Malcolm London, 19, participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third time this year. One of Chicago's most remarkable writers, Malcolm masterf...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KRZA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 3
Poet Mia Harris, 17, is a junior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this ye...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
Poet Kush Thompson, 18, participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this year. Her piece "The Blind Side (Live!) or When White Women Rai...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
Poet Keenan Davis, 19, is a junior at Youth Connection Leadership Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this year. His...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
Poet Tanya Smith, 18, is a member of the Kuumba Lynx poetry team and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this year. Her piece "A...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
Poet Chelsea Dixon, 16, is a sophomore at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:45
Poet Savia Gordon, 18, is a senior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this ...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:52
- Purchases: 1
Poet Antwon Funches, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. His piece "You...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:47
Part 1 of an interview with indie- hip-hop artist, One Be Lo.
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 03:36
Born in New Orleans in 1902, Omer Simeon is the least known of the early clarinetist of the 1920s. He was apparently very quite and reserved, didn...
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 58:58
Poet Ashaki Howard, 17, is a senior at Kenwood Academy and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Epic Sound representing her high...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:48
The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a leader in the fight for racial equality, should be high on the list of those we honor during ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2011
- Length: 04:02
There seems to be an obsession with youth that is prevalent in Hip-Hop culture today. Its originators are now in their thirties and fourties, yet t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 15:14
- Purchases: 1
PERFORMANCE ARTIST, KANENE HOLDER, WAS ONE OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SPONTANEOUSLY GATHERED OUTSIDE OF HARLEM’S FAMED APOLLO THEATERN FOR AN IMPRO...
- Added: Jun 22, 2010
- Length: 57:43
In rap music, being tough is often a pre-requisite for success. Long jail time, stolen guns and cars, and other outlaw antics beef up the thug image.
- Added: May 08, 2010
- Length: 09:48
Farm and domestic workers are seeking the vital union rights that were granted other U.S. workers way back in 1935.
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 03:55
African-American workers have been hit especially hard by the alarming growth of unemployment.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
