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"Black History Month Special" with Tracy K. Smith, Saeed Jones, and Meklit
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire Specials
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This Black History Month special episode features the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-so...

Bought by KUT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WLPR , WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
Civics 101: The True Story Of Reconstruction
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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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
StoryCorps Griot: Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Dr. Thomas in his lab., Credit: Public Domain
Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris remember their mentor, Dr. Vivien Thomas, a surgical researcher who developed groundbreaking medical techniques.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
Imani Perry: The Future of Democracy Depends on the South
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Their name was Pauli Murray
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pauli Murray circa 1931, age 21, Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Studios
Pauli Murray was a 20th century Black Queer civil rights trailblazer and legal scholar you’ve probably never heard of. On this edition of Out in th...

Bought by KALW, KVSC, KUT, and WORT


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Baldwin's Lessons for the US
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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James Baldwin was one of the 20th century’s most incisive thinkers and writers. In our own era, as political rhetoric, state violence, and popular ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Untold Story of the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we start off Black History Month with an innovative partnership that has come together around the Min...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:58
The Untold Story of the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration, Formally Known as the MLK Breakfast
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Desiree Clark and Xakk Asphodel about this ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:54
  • Purchases: 1
Reparations: Should We Pay for Someone Else's Sin?
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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The United States government has a history of paying reparations to those who have been wronged but with one very striking exception: slavery. Shou...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 46:41
The Untold Story of the Public Sharing Their Stories on Juneteenth at St. Cloud's Promise Neighborhood
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In a this Juneteenth edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attended the June 19th obse...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
The Untold Story of Racial Experience in the Wake of the Death of George Floyd with Shonda Craft, Dean of the SCSU School of Health and Human Services (Full Interview)
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Dean of the School of Health and Human...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 40:51
The Untold Story of Racial Experience in the Wake of the Death of George Floyd with Shonda Craft, Dean of the SCSU School of Health and Human Services (Radio Edit)
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Dean of the School of Health and Human...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 31:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit: African American Legacy
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Unveiled in 2004, the African American Legacy Project (AALP) of Northwest Ohio, has been documenting and preserving the history of Northwest Ohio's...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:59
Dr. Tommy J. Curry
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Dr. Tommy J. Curry
Where can the experiences of black men and boys be told and justified? Perhaps not within academia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #46: Black Art, Berlin Stories – Looking for Alain Locke
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954) launched a revolutionary black arts movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance....

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 34:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Untold Story of African American History in St. Cloud, Minnesota with Christopher Lehman
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Ethic Studies Pro...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 27:49
The United States of Apartheid: Gerald Horne On the White Supremacist Project
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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For tonight’s show, "The United States of Apartheid," we welcome Gerald Horne.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:15
Targeting the Vulnerable: Charter Legislation and Urban School Districts
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This conversation was excerpted for the program, "Darker than Blue: The Failure of School Integration." This is the full conversation between Inte...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 55:59
Can You Say This Word?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses the N-word with law professor, Randall Kennedy, author of “Nigger-the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.”

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
StoryCorps Griot: Charlie Morris and Sylvester Lewis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Charlie Morris remembers his brother's death in 1939, with his cousin Sylvester Lewis.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 2
Sean Hill: Blood Ties and Brown Liquor
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Sean Hill
Award winning Minnesota Poet Sean Hill joins Heidi Holtan to talk about his book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poet Michelle Boisseau
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Michelle Boisseau
Poet Michelle Boisseau talks about her collection A SUNDAY IN GOD-YEARS, which examines borders between black and white, free and slave, living and...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Humankind: Rubin Carter's Hurricane
From: Humankind
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Memorialized in a Bob Dylan song and an Academy Award nominated Denzel Washington film, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a successful prize fighter, wh...

Bought by WEZU, WOUB, NPR Illinois, RadioFreePalmer, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28