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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
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
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
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
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
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 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
