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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
A story of friendship and racism in apartheid-era South Africa.
Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFCF FM, KMUN and more
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 34
WITNESS IN THE DARK, features two plays by Dominique Morisseau, a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and Tony Award nominee for Ain't Too Proud: The ...
Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)
- Added: Dec 24, 2020
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 3
Season 2, Episode 6
Victim/Criminal tells the story of Hakeem Carter, who was brutally attacked while walking home from work one night. This trau...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 24:40
- Purchases: 1
“The Uncomfortable Truth” is a film produced by Loki Mulholland. It is a journey to understand how being white has benefited his family across gene...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KMUN, KOWS, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 50:07
- Purchases: 5
Explore what it looks like to fragment a forest, to drain a river, and to make a city unsafe for the humans that live there. Travel from the Black ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 44:41
- Purchases: 2
In light of the recent events regarding race in America, we revisit MacArthur Genius and Guggenheim Fellow, Claudia Rankine, who discusses her mo...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Spoon talks about hunting pigeons growing up and matthew gets pigeon hunting advice from some that specializes in hunting invasive species. Matthew...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
During the summer of 1967, Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis went up in flames. This was during a period known as the Long, Hot Summer when frus...
Bought by KVSC and MPR News Stations
- Added: Jul 18, 2019
- Length: 52:58
- Purchases: 2
Celebrating Influential African American Albums From The Civil Rights Era To Present- Day
- Added: Apr 21, 2018
- Length: 01:07:12
The current Poet Laureate and a former Laureate read and comment on new, unreleased poems.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 1
Danez Smith's poetry frankly addresses HIV, gay hookups and violence aimed at black men. At formal events, he's not afraid to go flamboyant. KFAI's...
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 04:25
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. In the short play, A Man of His Time, a descendant of Supreme Co...
- Added: Jan 29, 2018
- Length: 32:06
- Purchases: 2
We interview Alicia Garza, Special Projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and one of the founding leaders of Black Lives Mat...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Black Lives Matter protesters take over a city council meeting to protest against police killings of blacks, and how Ty're King's death overlapped ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 03:00
On 2/24/2016 President Obama will present the Selma voting rights marchers the Congressional Gold Medal. On March 7, 1965, the marchers were attack...
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 03:57
“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 13:10
“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 22:40
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh unpacks the saga of the Contract Buyers League, a local activist group in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood that organized in the 1...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 2
Bernard Holyfield (R) tells his friend Charles Barlow (L) about a painful memory from his childhood in the 1960s.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 02:18
- Purchases: 1
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...
- Added: Oct 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:00
A LOOK AT THE MOVEMENT FOR REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS
- Added: Feb 02, 2009
- Length: 59:11
