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Tonight’s show, Shadows are Black: Slavery’s Long Setting, features a discussion on the text and context of Herman Melville’s 1855 novella “Benito ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 57:12
Radio Curious discusses, in two parts, the grand jury verdict to not indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager in F...
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 58:00
One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez recently completed her term as Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate. This...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Reverend Hill discusses the history of Grant Chapel, and the A.M.E. church as a whole, connecting its founding as a rejection of discrimination to ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 25:35
My Choice My Voice teen talks about his transformation from a "troubled kid" to a high school graduate headed to college. Meanwhile, we hear his re...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 12:37
- Purchases: 1
Talana Banks and her brother, Willie, talk with their mother, Chief Warrant Officer Felicia Banks, about her deployment to Iraq in 2005 and their l...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 1
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
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 15:03
Cathy Byrd telephones Charles Guice, owner/director of Charles Guice Contemporary, to talk about his passion for contemporary photography and his c...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 12:56
Charlie Morris remembers his brother's death in 1939, with his cousin Sylvester Lewis.
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 01:46
- Purchases: 2
Tyrese Graham remembers his first day as a teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago, IL.
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious brings you an archived interview with Maria Stewart, as portrayed by scholar, Sandra Kamusakiri. Stewart was a free black woman who l...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 29:02
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 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
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
In this edition of Tiny Spark, we explore what happens when someone refuses to accept the idea of a "lost cause" and instead gets down to the work ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2011
- Length: 14:56
- Purchases: 2
Riots all over the world are calling on us to get involved in societal change. But what kind of action is needed, and how do we create real change?...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Oct 17, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Charles Randolph-Wright talks about directing Lynn Nottage's play Ruined at Arena Stage.
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 29:38
James Hanover Thompson tells his brother Dwight about his involvement in the "Kissing Case" of 1958.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WEZU, and KUOW
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 3
As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War is upon us, we have an interview conducted by Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack wit...
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 26:30
Linda Kenney Miller (R) and her sister Diane Kenney (L) remember their grandfather, Dr. John A. Kenney, who founded the first hospital for African...
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 01:31
- Purchases: 2
3 'This I Believe' essays from older, middle and young generations on Race
- Added: Feb 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
A comparative generational discussion about interracial marriage
Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)
- Added: Sep 22, 2010
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
Elder collected the final words of American serial killers, psychopaths and more. The book has an introduction by the late journalist Studs Terkel.
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 28:53
This show features the work of younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
