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his week is the first part of our interview with Mark Cook. Mark served 24 years in prison for his participation in a bank robbery and jail break a...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 30:00
The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively,...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:58
Because she promised her students she’d never make them do something she wouldn’t do, Nikkita Oliver performed for the first time at the 2012 Seatt...
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 43:07
Interview with Author, speaker, TV and Radio show host Jesse Lee Peterson. Also featuring music by George Hendrickson and The Mistics.
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 59:13
Davu Seru is the current Studio Z composer in Residence. Among his goals is combining west African-based traditions such as drumming and the blues...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 05:00
We go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into
the history of Midwestern prison resistance. We share more of the story
of Si...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 29:54
This week, we return to the experiences and stories of Sekou Kambui, who was incarcerated for 47 years in Alabama prisons. He was originally charg...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 29:57
This week, we focus on a topic that is close to many of us on the outside: the story and struggle of political prisoner and Ohio death row inmate B...
- Added: Oct 24, 2016
- Length: 29:54
We’re going to take a look at a man who became wealthy and well-known well before that “new deal” and who suffered the slings and arrows of America...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 58:51
- Purchases: 2
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Dr. Christopher Emdin, associate Professor of Math, Science and Technology at Teachers College of Columbia University) speaking about his new book,...
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- Length: 01:00:03
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
When your back is against the wall and you're all out of options, you don't want to break the law...but it wants to break you.
- Added: Jan 07, 2016
- Length: 53:57
A piece that explains how African-American students across the country are struggling to find stylists capable of doing their hair, and what length...
Bought by WORT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KLCC, 90.5 WSNC, and KRZA
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 5
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
Our guest Nenna Joiner of Feelmore 510, Oakland knows a lot about sex toys and will chat with us about how she got into that business, and what kee...
- Added: Aug 23, 2015
- Length: 22:51
Last Friday, June 19th, was Juneteenth--do you know what that is?
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 01:01:56
Recorded live at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, "Saved by Faith and Verse" is a night of Somali spoken word poetry featuring Abdi Phenome...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
The Harlem Renaissance Era of the 20’s, the "New Negroes" who had begun to express themselves in a variety of cultural and social spheres- W.E.B. ...
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- Length: 01:00:18
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
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
Musician George Clinton has written his memoirs in a new book ”Brotha Be Like, Yo George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You?”. He was recently ...
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- Length: 01:00:28
What are the origins of this dance? How did it begin? Who are the rising talents of this subculture based on the West Side of Chicago? And how has ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 11:57
Journalist Gianluca Tramontana takes you through the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, introduces you to their people, examines their history and explores...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 01:00:13
- Purchases: 1
Michigan has always been home to a number of bustling American enterprises, including the prison industry. Each year, the state's correctional faci...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:27
- Purchases: 2
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
Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School, tells about the experiences that hade him what he is. A good deal of pathos is included.
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:35
- Purchases: 2
