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Rep. James Clyburn speaks with his granddaughter, Sydney Reed, about the lessons he’s learned from success and failure.
- Added: Mar 10, 2020
- Length: 03:04
In her book, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Kellie Carter Jackson contends that the history of abolitionism, ...
- Added: Feb 19, 2020
- Length: 59:00
John Lewis remembers how Dr. King’s words inspired him to join the Civil Rights Movement.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WYAP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 8
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Brexit Fatigue a Major Factor in UK Election’s Labor Defeat; Central Park...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Starting with real estate reforms in the 1970s supposedly instituted to open a path to the American Dream for Black citizens, Keeanga-Yamahtta Tayl...
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 59:01
People of mixed heritage lead complex lives, often navigating between two racial and/or cultural identities. Producer Jocelyn Robinson, who lives t...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Oct 16, 2019
- Length: 27:04
- Purchases: 2
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Aug 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Artist Charles Gaines has been delving into philosophy, abstraction and mathematics to address politics and race since the 1970s. In August 2019, G...
- Added: Jul 29, 2019
- Length: 19:29
The docks of San Francisco and Durban, South Africa – two essential locations where a commitment to black internationalism and leftist politics spa...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 59:01
In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed i...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 01:03:54
400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about a...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key i...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Trump Effort to Dismantle Obamacare Underscores Need for Medicare for All...
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay , Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for p...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 06:02
Today’s program begins with the institutional role of Indiana University's Black Film Center/Archive within a school where the black student popul...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 59:01
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Congress Urged to Open Hearings on Rise of Racist Hate Groups Coinciding w...
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- Added: Feb 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Michelle Alexander, Mark Lamont Hill and Vonya Quarles discuss the modern prison abolition movement, what's changed in the past ten years, and the ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...
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- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We meet Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford—known for connecting art with the real world—when he represents the United States in the 57th Venice...
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 09:01
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 58:31
This is the special 90-minute finale for our series A Targeted Divide. It’s called “What Bullets do to Bodies and Lives: Structural Violence, Firea...
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- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 01:28:38
- Purchases: 2
Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...
Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: May 05, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Narratives around people of color added fire to the social unrest of the late 1960s. In this episode of Generation Justice, we look at the Kerner R...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 45:27
