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When the aging jazz artist was hospitalized, his doctors thought they should get some background information on his life, and he told them that he ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Join World Footprints as we uncover the hidden stories of this important piece of Newport's and America’s past from God's Little Acre.
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 39:27
What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descenda...
- Added: Feb 06, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.
- Added: Nov 13, 2022
- Length: 21:04
Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
HOUR ONE: "Empathy For Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
It’s just possible that our understanding of history is seen through a distorted lens. We think we know how the modern world was made. But, keep in...
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Most of us know very little about the history of the African American. Their contribution to our culture and society is rich and multilayered that...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KCBX
- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "African Cities Of The Future" - The fastest growing cities in the world are in Africa. We'll take you there with a special TTBOOK from A...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Our show is about William Monroe Trotter, owner and editor of the Boston Guardian from 1901 to 1934, and a radical race-first political agitator. K...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
This episode focuses on the social impact of Ernest Green’s life journey—a different type of travel experience--and his role in the civil rights mo...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 37:07
Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and ...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
A look into Billie Holiday's last year, and those whose mission it was to silence her.
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 58:00
In her book, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Kellie Carter Jackson contends that the history of abolitionism, ...
- Added: Feb 19, 2020
- Length: 59:00
On Feb 3rd, 1945, The all women of color, Six-Triple-Eight, was sent overseas to clear a two year backlog of mail. They were told it would take six...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 05, 2020
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
In 1965, two intellectuals met at Cambridge University for a debate. The topic: “The American dream is at the expense of the American Negro.” The r...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 58:31
From: John Shuck
A "Bottom-Up" history of the U.S. from an African-American and Latinx viewpoint.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WJAB
- Added: Jun 04, 2018
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 2
On this episode of Culture Clique, we bring you part 3 of “What’s Race Got to do With It?” Media Management of Minority Images”. previously, Bryant...
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 31:24
Love em or hate em, they’re an ever present part of American culture. And they’re not going away anytime soon. On this edition, we talk guns…from...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Join us for a special program featuring two legendary albums. The first, a "Conversation With The Blues," was recorded by Paul Oliver during the su...
Bought by Radio New Zealand and WJSU
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Some call it a new civil rights movement. Others simply call it “black lives matter”. We hear a conversation about waging strategic non-violence be...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious discusses interracial relationships with Harvard professor Randall Kennedy, author of “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identit...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Jan 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
