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Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 05:14
A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:19
My name is Shawn Hughes. I wrote this piece consciously, recapping one of my most important moments of the year. In the midst of two pandemics, eve...
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 06:54
Dr. Synnika's Topical Poem of the Week is a weekly show that uses poetry to explore the social, political, and racial conditions in America. Each e...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 03:30
This hour is dedicated to listening to members of our Black community. They share their experience and responses to recent social uprisings and the...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 59:08
Darnell Moore the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. A story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with...
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter reflections on humanity, the end of policing and her new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORI...
Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, WFHB, and WVAS
- Added: Mar 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
How do you feel about the future? Do you feel hopeful? Do you feel scared? Can we move forward together as a country? In our Season 1 finale, Carve...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 30:48
- Purchases: 1
How do you stand against evil, but not the evildoer? How do you go to war for what's right with love for the people you're fighting? Carvell Wallac...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 38:36
Do you love America? No, seriously, Carvell Wallace wants to know: do you love America? Today, he talks with Van Jones and Rabia Chaudry about love...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 39:18
It's like visiting a small town...but it's also like visiting the remaining survivors of an apocalypse. Carvell Wallace goes to his hometown of McK...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 32:01
Going out and talking to people is a little thing, but it's also a big thing. Especially if those people are different from you, or might not like ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 01:01:00
How can we come together as a country when it seems like so many things are working to keep us apart? Host Carvell Wallace turns to Shereen Marisol...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 01:09:48
Who or what is in your own past right now that you need to face, but aren’t facing—and why not? Carvell Wallace has a theory that maybe this whole ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 57:02
Ta-Nehisi Coates' friend from Howard University was shot and killed by police in Virginia back in 2000. Written in the form of a letter to his own ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on discrimination at Muirfield, the golf club hosting the 2013 British Open.
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 02:30
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe talks about the revolutionary life and work of Lena Horne.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy believes that Nelson Mandela has yet one more lesson to teach the world.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 2
As we recognize Bud Powell as one of the most influential jazz pianists of the 20th century, we must also acknowledge how much of his greatness and...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
Poet Kristen Turner, 17, is a senior at Kenwood Academy. This is the second year she has represented her school at Louder Than a Bomb, which advanc...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:50
Poet Donald Lesley, 17, is a senior at Kenwood Academy. This is the first year he has represented his school at Louder Than a Bomb, which advanced ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:40
Poet CeeJay "Shock Therapy" Hannah, 18, is a senior at Percy L. Julian High School. This is the first year the school has participated in Louder T...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:33
Our Voices is a team piece performed by the poets of the Percy L. Julian High School Slam Poetry Team: seniors Jeffery "Tri-flow" Cain, 18, and Syd...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:27
