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Caption: Erin Aubry Kaplan
In his nearly two terms as president, Barack Obama has solidified his status, as something black people haven’t had for fifty years: a folk hero.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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David Dinkins made political history in 1990 when he was sworn in as the first African American mayor of New York City. Dinkins, now a professor at...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
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The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Psychiatrist, philosopher, writer, activist and insurgent, Frantz Fanon influenced such revolutionary leaders as Malcolm X and Che Guevara. Fanon ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 57:30
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Sanders: Single-Payer is Only System that Can Achieve Universal Health Car...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Louis Farrakhan, Black Lives Matter, and the future of black political leadership in the United States. I speak with Freddie deBoer about his Harpe...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 56:35
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Interchange reviews 2015 with a specific look at the programs which detailed the history and present moment of Black lives in the United States of ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
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What comes after Whips and Chains? Solitary confinement. Lisa Guenther of Vanderbilt University discusses the reformist good intentions of Benjamin...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:45
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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
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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
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Tonight we discuss the groundbreaking graphic novel series,March, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis’s life...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:17
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: AT&T's Unique Relationship with NSA Comes Under Scrutiny After Release of ...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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This week we take the full hour for David Dault's in-depth interview with Michelle Alexander, author of the groundbreaking 2010 book, The New Jim C...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Culture of Impunity: a Toxic Element Contributing to Police Violence; Yale...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Jacinda Townsend, author of the novel <em>Saint Monkey</em> which has won the 2015 James Fenimore Cooper Prize awarded...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 57:55
Caption: Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, Credit: http://www.apbspeakers.com/
Some call it a new civil rights movement. Others simply call it “black lives matter”. We hear a conversation about waging strategic non-violence be...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Rasul Mowatt and Jacinda Townsend to discuss why Martin Luther King, Jr. has been remembered and elevated to represent...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 56:50
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Tonight’s program seeks to shine a light first on what’s been called the “militarization” of police across the country due to something like a fede...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 57:53
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
The case for reparations: journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates on the nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy -- this week on Moyers & Company.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KRDP, WCUW 91.3 FM, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 24:00
  • Purchases: 34
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In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Whether looking at the 1920s or 2013, people's behavior and attitudes toward race are often influenced by factors beyond their own experience and c...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2013
  • Length: 15:45
Caption: Breaking the chains of slavery, Credit: empirical_perception
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York whose life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transform...

Bought by WJCT and WFHB


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Mr. Badey's "glory days", Credit: ESPN
The band is finally back together! After a year and a half of hating each other, friends Rob Piccirillo "Bobby Pickles", David Bader "Mr. Badey" an...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Radio Curious visits with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:02