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Blues Routes - Lynching Protest and the Blues
From: Thom Butler
Series: Blues Routes Weekly
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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
Act
From: Michelle Boyd
Series: "I don't recall."
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The first of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:45
Denial
From: Michelle Boyd
Series: "I don't recall."
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The second of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:05
Racial Innocence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: New York University Press, Credit: Trade card for Cottolene
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 19:53
"Death Be Not Proud: The Execution of Troy Davis"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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This special edition of "The Cutting Edge", looks at the trial, resistance and execution of Troy Davis, who was convicted of the killing of an off-...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 56:30