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In a future world, we have lost the technology for video/film/picture or recorded image. It is against their religion to draw or be involved with ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 09:32
On 2/24/2016 President Obama will present the Selma voting rights marchers the Congressional Gold Medal. On March 7, 1965, the marchers were attack...
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 03:57
Newkirk and Reader's Corner host Bob Kustra discuss Newkirk's book about "The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga."
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 30:10
Another authentic author's voice -- Jo Ivestor reads from her touching book, The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960's Deep South. Her true sto...
- Added: May 03, 2015
- Length: 01:40
John has worked the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road for years now. He’s become a permanent fixture there and a daily reminder to motorists...
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 26:04
James Hannaham is an author, part-time conceptual artist, journalist, and teacher.
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 17:27
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
The 1920 lynching of three young black men in Duluth is a tragic part of Minnesota's history. On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, in the Atwood Memori...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 01:02:22
- Purchases: 1
KVSC Radio at St. Cloud State University presents Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings. On the evening of June 15, 1920, a crowd of thousands attacke...
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
The first of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 01:45
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
Presidents often disappoint us. Professor Rowland Brucken reads from his book, A Most Uncertain Crusade: The United States, the United Nations, and...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Join us for a special program featuring two legendary albums. The first, a "Conversation With The Blues," was recorded by Paul Oliver during the su...
Bought by Radio New Zealand and WJSU
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious visits with Orell Massey, a black sheriff's deputy in rural Mendocino County, Ca, who shares his experiences as a black sheriff in a ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 58:02
Unspun examines the Ferguson, MO, murder of teenager Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson and the lack of justice in America today.
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 57:45
- Purchases: 1
Darnell Moore (R) tells his friend Bryan Epps (L) about an incident that shaped his...
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 2
Alex Landau, who is African American, and his adoptive mother, Patsy Hathaway, who is white,...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WTJU, and KMUD
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 5
In March 1964, a 35-year-old African American woman named Johnnie Mae Chappell was walking along the side of the road in Jacksonville, Florida. Fou...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 10, 2014
- Length: 17:10
- Purchases: 1
At the intersection of theater and social activism: Citizen Artist Rachael Holmes. [26:52]
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KZUM, KPIP-LP, and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 26:52
- Purchases: 4
His most important dream is to have the best possible education for his son who is 9 years old now. And not to endure the horrors of a life as a ch...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 16:46
A young boy's father is killed in Somalia, as he makes his way to a camp in Kenya. After a long journey, now in the US, he doesn't feel discriminat...
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 08:51
Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses he...
- Added: Apr 03, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The second of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 01:05
The final piece in a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Vaudeville and Broadway songs that are incorrect in these times
Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and more
- Added: Oct 03, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
