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From: Shelley Johnson

Memorial Day began as a way to unite a country deeply divided by the Civil War. This documentary produced and narrated by Shelley M. Johnson talks ...

Bought by WLPR

Season 1, Episode 21 - 'Beyond Bars' feat Fox & Rob Richardson

From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1

The need for prison reform in the USA.

Bought by WOJB

70 Million: Taking Mental Health Crises Out of Police Hands

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Asantewaa Boykin, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, program director for MH First Sacramento, and an ER nurse, poses for a photo at her home in Sacramento., Credit: Photo by Sara Nevis.

Police encounters during a mental health crisis have a greater chance of turning deadly if you're Black. New response mechanisms bypass law enforce...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioStPete Florida

Episode Two: Recovering History

From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America

Due to prohibitions against enslaved people learning to read and write, there are only a few written records left behind by formerly enslaved Kentu...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, WKMS and more

“What does ‘Protesting’ Mean to Someone in this Current Moment?”

From: Jed Alexander

Caption: BLM rally in North Hollywood, Credit: Jed Alexander

Even in complicated times, we tend to forget the simplicity of, “why we protest” even if the issue is a no-brainer or has complicated edges. We kno...

The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America, Demo

From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America

The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more

Reset (episode 7)

From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy

Explore what it looks like to fragment a forest, to drain a river, and to make a city unsafe for the humans that live there. Travel from the Black ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Why is Deerfield (Still) So White?

From: Amy Roost

Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018

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...

Black History Matters: Racial Propaganda

From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters

Harvard Professor Emertus, Psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint discusses the long history of efforts to undermine the self-esteem and well-being of black ...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP

Black History Matters: Profiling (Long Version)

From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters

Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint MD

Racial profiling has a little understood yet profound impact on race relations, and remains a source of fear and humiliation for blacks and other p...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KPIP-LP

How Americans Make Race

From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities

Whether looking at the 1920s or 2013, people's behavior and attitudes toward race are often influenced by factors beyond their own experience and c...

Behind the Truck Stop: The Story of Vado-Del Cerro

From: Kent Paterson

A half-hour radio documentary that examines the history and culture of a New Mexico border town. The piece explores issues of inter-ethnic relation...

Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...

Bought by WDDE, WAMU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio and more

Oscar Grant and Police Accountability

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

We take a look at the Police killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, and the debate over who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

Remembering Jim Crow

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

For much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from ma...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WFAE, WGTE Public Media, RadioFreePalmer, WBHM and more

Breaking Through the Blue Wall of Silence

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Oakland protestors lay in the position Oscar Grant was in when he was killed, Credit: Andrew Stelzer

Who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong—the police chief or the people? Cities across the country are creating civilian oversig...

Bought by KVSC