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Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 51:30
Crystal Chandler finds the perfect memento of her grandfather, a former Seventh Day Adventist pastor, to take with her when she moves to New York.
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 18:26
When it comes to racism, many white Americans can intellectualize it and some can personalize it through the experience of others but the real chan...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 01:59:05
His lynching was said to have propelled the Civil Rights Movement but what really happened to the 14 year old boy from Chicago and what can we lear...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 01:47:41
Her book is back on the NYT Best Seller list and for a very good reason. “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” as been called both ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 02:17:15
Who should own the narrative when it comes to talking about slavery and Jim Crow? Lance Wheeler, is the former Curator of Exhibition & Interpreters...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 53:24
The n-word is loaded with a history of hate and death. Today, the word's meaning has transformed but the echoes of its past remain. Who's word is i...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:33:06
Is there a subconscious belief amongst whites that only they can "save" people of color? Have they been conditioned by society to see themselves as...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:34:42
Whites too often see themselves as the real victims of racism and they might have point but it’s not the one they thought they were making. Are whi...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:00:32
Many of us want to help change the narrative and be anti-racist partners in the good fight. This was true of civil rights activists coming to Missi...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:14:23
Education is the gateway to the future in America. Our system is built around it but major colleges and universities continue to be predominantly w...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:16:43
Don Carter is a former police officer who spent nearly 10 years on the beat. He knows how the system works. He's also African American.
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:29:21
Being black in America is exhausting and even deadly. Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) is real and impacts the health and well-being of millions. What i...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:06:39
His work helped close four of the most infamous cold cases of the Civil Right Movement. Jerry Mitchell is one of the most celebrated investigative ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 48:16
When we say the words, “the talk”, it probably conjures up the awkward conversation one has with their children about the birds and the bees. Howev...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 58:43
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack heads over to the Promise Neighborhood in St. Cloud on...
- Added: Aug 29, 2020
- Length: 29:09
Freedom - Eloisa Diaz-Sanz is an American creative consultant and fashion designer from New York City, specializing in womenswear. Her experience i...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 01:36
Perseverance - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Bill...
- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 01:19
An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging proje...
- Added: Jul 01, 2019
- Length: 27:53
In today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us down to Lake George to experience the first...
- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 30:36
America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a black m...
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 56:32
In this episode of For the Record, Tom and Julian go behind the scenes of the Houston Grand Opera's 1976 recording of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Th...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Nov 10, 2016
- Length: 59:58
- Purchases: 1
We asked poet Kyes Steven of Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to record a workshop for us. Take a listen.
Prison Poetr...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 2
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
A Buffalo Soldier comes alive through a Yosemite park ranger
- Added: Dec 11, 2007
- Length: 08:49