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Black Soldiers of Utah was an exhibit on display in Utah showcasing and exploring the often untold history of black soldiers and veterans and how t...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 1
This year, Mother’s Day, May 14th coincides with the formal end of the National Covid-19 Emergency. Poor parents will be taking a hit — but Guarant...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR, WNYE and more
- Added: Aug 11, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
It's Black History Month, and that means the gals along with the guys. Visit two women you probably never heard of who were "firsts" in their field...
- Added: Feb 09, 2023
- Length: 02:47
This compilation album from 1994 showcases the Blues of Jimi Hendrix.
Bought by WLPR and KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Dec 31, 2021
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 2
In today’s FULL and EXTENDED Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends the Stearns History Museum’s...
- Added: Aug 12, 2021
- Length: 01:13:08
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends the Stearns History Museum’s Breakfast Club pr...
- Added: Aug 12, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Perhaps the most landmark of them all.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 30:56
- Purchases: 2
"Separate" did not start here.
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 22:26
NBA play-in tournament, Aaron Rodgers, and an interview with David Signminton CEO of Desert Domino League
- Added: Jun 07, 2021
- Length: 01:08:50
BIPOC journalists reflect on what it is to be veterans of two of the most devastating wars in recent history: the coronavirus pandemic and the cent...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: May 26, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
We dig into the history of a once-unacknowledged African burial ground in East New York, Brooklyn, and ask how a new library branch can honor that ...
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 33:36
Identity - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboar...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 02:04
At the age of 42, Bridget Mason won a court case in California that freed her and her daughters from slavery. She went on to become a California re...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 05:14
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Ethic Studies Pro...
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 27:49
Born in 1832, Mary Fields was the first African-American female Star Route mail carrier in the United States. Wearing two guns that she sometimes b...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 30, 2019
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
New economic research reveals how difficult it is for some people to gain wealth in America, even when they do everything right.
- Added: Oct 09, 2018
- Length: 03:08
You might think of Coca Cola as an iconic American brand… but it was born in the South. How did Coke’s Atlanta birthplace shape what the soft drink...
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and KVLU
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 25:24
- Purchases: 2
An interview/music mix with Gayle Wald, author of "Shout, Sister, Shout. The story of Rock and Roll trailblazer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe"
Bought by Prairie Public, KMUW, and WSGE
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 02:26:14
- Purchases: 3
Host Bob Kustra talks with Tye about his book about the baseball legend, Satchel Paige.
- Added: Mar 18, 2016
- Length: 29:30
Walter Naegle tells his niece, Ericka, about the unconventional decision that he and his partner, Bayard Rustin, made to protect their union.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Sylviane Diouf of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture talks with Ed Ayers about some of the overlooked legacies of enslaved Muslims ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 1
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Reclaimed Soul host Ayana Contreras brings us rocket-fueled soul music with outer space themes.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 13:30
Author Sam Roberts reads about a civil rights pioneer indeed, from his new book. Another example of our daily 100-second show -- great for top-of-t...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 01:40
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian William P. Jones talks with host Brian Balogh about the origins of the march idea, first floated during a campaign against employment dis...
Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 09:17
- Purchases: 2
