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Port Arthur Texas is home base for the largest oil refinery in North America and a dizzying toxic array of fossil fuel and chemical facilities. But...
- Added: Sep 05, 2022
- Length: 58:00
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
The United States is three months into a mass movement against police violence. We are the midst of a national conversation about the relationship ...
Bought by WMUU-LP and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Sep 09, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
It’s been three months since George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minnesota. The movement prompted an outpouring from lawmakers in ...
Bought by WMUU-LP and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Aug 26, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
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
In the Summer of 2020, we revisit a discussion on police killings of Black people from 2016 after the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castil...
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 59:03
Juan de Onate is responsible for brutalizing New Mexico’s Indigenous people...hear more about the history of the Spanish colonizer.
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 59:02
Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw defined the concept of intersectionality 30 years ago. She developed that framework to understand how identities s...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jan 31, 2020
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Aug 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about a...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key i...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Apr 04, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
We speak with author Dr. Stacey Patton about her book, Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Won't Save Black America. The book examines the unique cultural...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 14:55
America’s unwillingness to assess the ugly truth about systemic inequality has created a perpetual sinkhole of denial. A reality that existed long ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Dec 07, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Pay no attention to what the media says about how undermined Jeff Sessions is. POTUS may bait him publicly via tweet, but in private, at the DOJ, S...
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 03:00
Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...
Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter reflections on humanity, the end of policing and her new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORI...
Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, WFHB, and WVAS
- Added: Mar 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
On today's episode of Bring It On, Dr. Amrita Myers and Jim Sims speak to Beth Applegate, president of Applegate Consulting Group, and resident anc...
- Added: Jun 21, 2017
- Length: 01:00:32
The Legacy of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and A Sermon to White America
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 57:58
- Purchases: 2
Bring It On's William Hosea and Dr. Amrita Myers speak with Dr. Kali Gross, Professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University about "Vio...
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 58:00
He straddles the more essential American Century, from the failure of Reconstruction to the March on Washington, not demarcated by round numbers an...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WCPN
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 58:03
- Purchases: 2
William Hosea and Cornelius Wright invite Ms. Oyibo Afoaku, a higher education professional, to Bring It On to discuss the Harambe concept, her de...
- Added: Jul 25, 2016
- Length: 58:49
Pamela Spoto, educator and Peace and Justice advocate, co-hosts again. Our guest is Kevin Alexander Gray. He is is a civil rights organizer and a...
Bought by KMUD
- Added: May 30, 2016
- Length: 59:13
- Purchases: 1
