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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:53
Food is an expression of who we are. Table host and folklorist next door, Yvette Blair-Lavallais, catches up with two generations of two North Texa...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 13:08
The final episode of this series. Spoon and Matthew perform an excerpt from a play by Spoon. Spoon and his brother Abe talk about their dad, Matthe...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...
Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more
- Added: May 23, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 33
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Leonard Brown, USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor, aA native of Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover community, Leonard Brown (b.1934) reflects o...
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 03:56
America's first African American female millionaire.
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KBEM, KSKA, RadioStPete Florida, KETR-FM and more
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 02:02
- Purchases: 8
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 1
Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:24
Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
ART BLAKEY known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina was a Jazz drummer and a pioneer of Be-bop and modern Jazz. This one hour program is an introduction...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KSRQ
- Added: Aug 23, 2012
- Length: 52:24
- Purchases: 3
Dr. Della Taylor Hardman made it her mission to talk to influential and promising African Americans inside and outside of West Virginia. Her interv...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WDDE, WJAB, KWMR, WEMU and more
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 01:57:00
- Purchases: 10
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
The Battle to Preserve and Honor the New York African Burial Ground
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
The NY City Draft Riots & The Battle of Ft. Wagner - July 1863
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
John Brown, Frederick Douglass & Harper's Ferry
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Catherine "Katie" Ferguson, the Jennings Family, and the Battle for Full First-Class Citizenship (1830-1854)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Ruggles, Douglass and the Rise of the Abolitionist and Back to Africa Movements, & the Underground Railroad (1830-1854)
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
The Rise of the Black Church, the Black Press and the Fight for Education (1783-1830)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Huddy and Tye (1775-1783)
Bought by WNYC
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
More Revolts, "Conspiracies," and Runaways (1712-1775)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Slave revolts & resistance: New England / New York 1712, etc.
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Sussana Anthony Roberts, Solomon Pieters, and the Push for Personal and Economic Freedom (1664-1712)
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
