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SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: MLK Day- Seeing (Me) Is Believing with author Tami Charles
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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When Tami Charles’ son was in kindergarten, he asked her: “If Dr. King was such a good guy who wanted all these wonderful things for everyone, Momm...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WRKF, RadioStPete Florida, Wyoming Public Radio, WUWM and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 14
The Almost Astronaut
From: Joe Richman
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The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.

  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 16:36
Bad Blood, Bad Science
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:05
George Floyd: A Year Later
From: Ampers
Series: Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice
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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd took his last labored breaths, while Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck. What happened that n...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: May 22, 2021
  • Length: 22:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KOSU and KVSC


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 14:55
Assignment: Memphis
From: Drew Darling
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The plot that killed the dream. The Who, What, Where, How and Why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated.

Bought by WLPR and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Emergence of Otis Redding
From: Paul Ingles
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A lively ride through the story of the soul star’s all-too-brief career but long-enduring legacy. We’ll hear from other musicians, music writers, ...

Bought by WHRV, KUHF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 23
Preview of Upcoming Special "The Emergence of Otis Redding"
From: Paul Ingles
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A 14:30 sampler of comments and music from an upcoming public radio special on the legendary soul singer Otis Redding. Commentators in this previe...

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 14:27
  • Purchases: 1
Selma 50th Anniversary Postcard
From: WUAL
Caption: 70,000 people gathered in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 2015 to remember the 50th anniversary of "bloody Sunday", Credit: Alabama Pubic Radio
On 2/24/2016 President Obama will present the Selma voting rights marchers the Congressional Gold Medal. On March 7, 1965, the marchers were attack...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:57
General Nathan B Forrest and the Confederate Flag
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The honor of a Confederate hero shrinks in the twilight of 21st century political correctness, as does the rebel flag...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:05:07
Red Beans, Red Wine & Rebuilds: a Katrina Anniversary Special
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: New Orleans soul food restaurant Willie Mae's Scotch House in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, how does the city’s food reveal how the place has changed? The stories of a wine bar, and...

Bought by KUT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMUN, KOSU and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 18
'To Heal A Sick Nation: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and IDEAS'
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1966, Credit: AFP/Getty Images
This program tells the untold story about Dr. Martin Luther King and his appearance on the most prestigious lecture series in Canada, shortly befor...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 49:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Dream Before the Dream: Detroit, 1963
From: Zak Rosen
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On June 23, 1963, labor and church leaders organized tens of thousands of people in Detroit for the Great March to Freedom. Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 3
Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Serenade To A Bus Seat, Credit: 2007 Concord Music Group, Inc.
"Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement" is an important one hour program that features Jazz music as the background with comments concerning the Civil R...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WJAB, Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, WTJU and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2012
  • Length: 49:56
  • Purchases: 6
Moments in Black History: Rosa Parks
From: N Lorde
Caption: Rosa Parks, Credit: Mindfully.org
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 3
An Interview with Ms. Joanne Bland: Civil Rights Activist for the Selma Voting Rights Movement
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On the last edition Culture Clique, Ms. Joanne Blackmon Bland discussed on Growing up in the Segregated South: The Selma Voting Rights Movement. Sh...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 32:18
  • Purchases: 1
Black History: Ossie Davis, February 4, 2005
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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One of our great actors. His mother called him by his initials R.C., but was mis-heard by the county clerk, so we knew him as Ossie.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
My Favorite Things at 60
From: Robin Washington
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March 2021 is the 60th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane's definitive jazz work "My Favorite Things." Winner of the National Association...

Bought by KBEM, RadioFreePalmer, KSFR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 6
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
Aha Moment: Underground Railroad
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay: Otis Redding returns to Macon
From: Philip Graitcer
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Otis Redding Exhibit

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Solid Ground 2008
From: Eve Troeh
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One-hour documentary **UPDATED for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

Bought by WVAS, WMNF, WRVO Public Media, KMUN, KWIT and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 55:36
  • Purchases: 8
Chris Calloway: A Jazz Life of Her Own (29:00 / 21:30 / 9:33 / 7:20)
From: Paul Ingles
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Jazz singer Chris Calloway, daughter to the legendary singer and band leader Cab Calloway, died August 7, 2008. Chris recalls her father's legacy ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KGLT, and WVRU


  • Added: Dec 23, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
P.O.V. - Revolution '67 Filmmaker Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Filmmaker Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno talks with P.O.V. about the making of her film "Revolution '67"

  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 06:52