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Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WJCU
- Added: Jun 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
DaShawn Barr played a prominent role in the racial justice protests that occurred in Austin, Texas in summer 2020.
- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 05:35
I'm Shawn Hughes and a student from Walter Payton College Prep. This project details, despite the success, the complications and struggles that our...
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 07:15
Gay teenager attends a Black Lives Matter protest in a suburb of NYC.
- Added: Jul 31, 2020
- Length: 08:15
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
A racial justice book group confronts the reality of racism on Cape Cod.
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 04:32
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
Dion Diamond talks about the risks he took as a young civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Mullen is the author of The Lightning Men, Darktown, and The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA TODAY. To l...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 15:39
“Black Detroit” A People’s History of Self-Determination”- is a rich account of African-American history in Motown, written by award-winning journa...
- Added: Sep 08, 2017
- Length: 40:51
The Cutting Edge presents Angela J. Davis talking about her book “Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment”, in which she exp...
Bought by KMSU and KISA Digital Studios
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 01:00:03
- Purchases: 2
Cornelius Eady reenacts a scene of racial discrimination from the film A Raisin in the Sun.
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Michael Eric Dyson's new book, "The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America", explores the powerful, surprising way the p...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:00:50
Raymond Summerville uncovers the surprising and troubled past of George Hatton, a beloved citizen of Columbia, Missouri, whom neighborhood children...
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 06:58
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
Last Friday, June 19th, was Juneteenth--do you know what that is?
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 01:01:56
The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a speech by Cornell West, the author of The Radical King, an anthology of Martin Luther King Jr.’s essays,...
- Added: Mar 21, 2015
- Length: 01:00:39
Tonight’s show, Shadows are Black: Slavery’s Long Setting, features a discussion on the text and context of Herman Melville’s 1855 novella “Benito ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 57:12
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
In 1964, Congress had a noteworthy Civil Rights Bill before it. But Southern Democrats, supporters of Jim Crow laws, were pushing a filibuster to k...
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 04:55
Producer Dred-Scott Keyes looks back at the life of poet/writer Amiri Baraka, who died on January 9th in Newark, New Jersey
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 28:04
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
In this second part of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Perfo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 59:59
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:01
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 54:15
- Added: Feb 19, 2007
- Length: 08:36
- Purchases: 1
