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Echoes of a Coup
From: Scene on Radio
Caption: Echoes of a Coup art, Credit: Zaire McPhearson
One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, Baltimore Public Media, WFDD and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 25
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Mint 400
From: Black Mountain Radio
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In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:17
Episode 158: "If it ever happens, run."
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 33:08
Engulfed in Flames (Radio Race 2020)
From: Alex Lewis
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Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television. This piece was produced ...

Bought by WFHB and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Roses in December (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What did segregation look like in everyday life and culture? We tell the stories of an African American opera singer and a white woman who transf...

Bought by WCPN, WCNY, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 11
Roses in December (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-What did the process of legal desegregation look like in everyday life and culture? Jennifer Ritterhouse shares the story of Sarah Patton “Pattie...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WLIW, KRDP and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
I Am Not Your Negro (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
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Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pilgrimage (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WFHB, WNMU-FM, KMUN, and WJCU


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
AN OUTRAGE: REFLECTIONS ON RACISM, PAST & PRESENT (HALF)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-“An Outrage’ is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. From the end of the Civil War well into the middle of the twentieth centu...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WYAP and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Making Obama: Part 2
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
Out of the Blocks: Penn-North (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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Voices from the epicenter of unrest in Baltimore

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 48:30
  • Purchases: 1
THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION -- Stanley Nelson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Stanley Nelson, San Francisco, CA 10/1/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Stanley Nelson talks history, irony, and delivering the unexpected.

  • Added: Oct 03, 2015
  • Length: 15:03
Out of the Blocks: Penn-North (mini version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
Caption: The intersection on Pennsylvania & North Avenues in Baltimore, Credit: Wendel Patrick
Voices from the epicenter of unrest in Baltimore

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Segregation Now, Segregation Forever: The Infamous Words of George Wallace
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 2
The 1992 LA Rebellion: Twenty Years Later
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:13
Remembering "I Have a Dream"
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Julian Bond (right) at the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs, with other members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee., Credit: Julian Bond
We know what history books say about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech - but what about the people who were there?

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WTIP, KRCB 104.9, WHFR and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 28
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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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
Five Days in July promo
From: Charles Schultz
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:24 promo

Bought by WCPN and WCBE


  • Added: Jul 03, 2007
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 2