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We learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 58:02
We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:53
Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 23:18
George M. Johnson talks about their debut Young Adult memoir All Boys Aren't Blue, the support of their family, their love of Toni Morrison, and th...
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 15:31
NYC Housing Authority is the city's largest landlord. Pilot programs to electrify its decrepit housing stock find successes and stumbling blocks w...
Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 11, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Many perceive philanthropy to be the exclusive domain of the super wealthy. Those people are apparently unaware of the efforts of this week's gues...
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Sep 24, 2022
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 1
Anthony Brutus Cassius was questioned by the FBI, fought to be the first Black person in Minnesota to get a liquor license, and his famous greasy b...
Bought by MPR News Stations and WGZS
- Added: Jul 09, 2021
- Length: 56:32
- Purchases: 2
An audio documentary about the parent-led fight to reform New York City's child welfare system.
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 39:13
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
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
IU Soul Revue Director Crystal Taliefero provides a master class on successful performing, learned as part of bands with multi-platinum records (yo...
- Added: Apr 05, 2017
- Length: 01:01:03
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 58:52
- Added: Sep 05, 2011
- Length: 54:56
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 28:17
- Purchases: 1
