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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
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
Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 17:08
- Purchases: 1
If you have walked the streets of the Bay Area recently -- you might have seen posters featuring the names and faces of Oscar Grant, Renisha McBrid...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
More than 2.7 million minors in America live with a parent in prison. Studies show that the majority of incarcerated parents reside over 100 miles ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 06:18
At the age of 51, William Bennett was one of the oldest people in California who could claim that. But in June 2013, eight months after leaving pri...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 07:25
Bennett and Porter do their cooking in a shared kitchen that’s part of a transitional house in West Oakland. But they met many years ago.
“Well, w...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 10:42
How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.
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- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 12:31
- Purchases: 1
In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 11:30
- Purchases: 2
California has been in an ongoing struggle trying to figure out how to deal with overcrowding in prisons. The problems extend to the Division of Ju...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 07:19
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Historian William P. Jones talks with host Brian Balogh about the origins of the march idea, first floated during a campaign against employment dis...
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- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 09:17
- Purchases: 2
The United States imprisons more people than any other country. In California a new policy called ‘realignment’ aims to reduce the number of peopl...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:01
The Cutting Edge looks at the life of the Emmy award-winning journalist, Gil Noble- considered as America's best known and most influential African...
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 01:00:11
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
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
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?...
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- Added: Oct 17, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Keith Plessy, descendant of Homer Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, great, great grandaughter of Judge John Ferguson, both litigants in the 1896 Supreme ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2009
- Length: 29:00
When Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president he became the first African-American to head a major party ticket. What becomes...
- Added: Feb 13, 2009
- Length: 05:13
Commentary about the hopes of Mixed Race people and the Presidential race.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KCUR, Remix Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 08, 2008
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 5
Shareef Cousin was wrongly convicted and sent to death row for over a decade.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and KTNA
- Added: Mar 16, 2007
- Length: 07:57
- Purchases: 3
The quest for understanding between peoples is always challenging. But that challenge can be extremely intense, even dangerous, when an African-Am...
- Added: Feb 25, 2007
- Length: 28:47
Four social activists talk about why a day of service is the wrong way to honor Martin Luther King.
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- Added: Feb 08, 2007
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 4
One-quarter of the homeless are Veterans
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- Added: Sep 25, 2006
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 5
Bethany Ocansey reminisces about the influence of racism on her childhood and how it didn't affect her until she moved from Europe to America.
- Added: Sep 11, 2006
- Length: 03:55
- Added: Feb 15, 2006
- Length: 09:50
- Purchases: 1
