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Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...
- Added: Mar 29, 2017
- Length: 21:27
Protests that turn violent have been a constant throughout American history. Professor Ashley Howard explains their origins, and how new laws, poli...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 26:10
- Purchases: 1
On the eve of the presidential election, William Hosea, Leila Randle, Clearance Boone, and Eric Love talk about the presidential candidates and sha...
- Added: Nov 08, 2016
- Length: 58:01
William Hosea and Cornelius Wright speak with Eric Deggans, NPR’s first full-time TV critic. They discuss the final Presidential debate, Mr. Deggan...
- Added: Nov 07, 2016
- Length: 58:44
Amrita Myers and Jim Sims listen to the rebirth of Bloomington United from Justin Ford. Bloomington United, inactive for several years, is reformi...
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Nov 07, 2016
- Length: 57:33
- Purchases: 1
A full lineup on Hallow’s Eve with ever popular “Mama Gitcha Goomee”, a special conversation with Indiana Gubernatorial Candidate John Gregg, and f...
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 57:11
Radio Curious continues a tour of the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a safe haven for black slaves seeking refuge from the south through the u...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 29:01
Radio Curious tours the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a safe haven for black slaves seeking refuge from the south through the underground rai...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul is one of America's first black theater companies. This month, "Jitney" — a play by the great August Wilson — returns ...
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 28:34
Radio Curious discusses police misconduct, accountability and the Black Lives Matter movement with Dr. Joseph Marshall, a member of the San Francis...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Author and CEO of A Diet Free Life, Robert Ferguson provides information on how you can maintain your three meals a day and still lose weight.
- Added: Dec 01, 2015
- Length: 15:46
Jerry Lawson documents his early days in New York and discusses songs from the Persuasions first album, Acappella (1970, Reprise/Straight Records).
Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), KDLG, KPIP-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 54:20
- Purchases: 5
Summer is the time for baseball all over the country, and in Minnesota that’s no different. The history of baseball in Minnesota, however, has inc...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 29:56
Radio Curious visits with Dr. Joseph Marshall, co-founder of Alive and Free, a community violence prevention effort for at-risk inner city youth to...
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Victoria F. Pratt, the Chief Judge of the Newark,New Jersey Municipal Court, has won an international reputation for her efforts to reform the crim...
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 30:09
In this hour, it's the myth and magic of the label that defined mid-century jazz: Blue Note Records.
Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCPN, WVPE, Radio New Zealand and more
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 28
Radio Curious discusses, in two parts, the grand jury verdict to not indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager in F...
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 58:00
Lauren Joichin Nile introduces her readers to some provocative ideas in her book RACE: My Story and Humanity’s Bottom Line. Her work delves deep in...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 30, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in Central City has recently seen a lot of redevelopment. Why has it been so hard to bring business back to this bou...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:10
Dom Flemons interprets traditional music with a distinct rhythmic drive, using instruments like bones and quills.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, KSRQ, KKRN and more
- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 7
The NAACP and the National Urban League were founded over 100-years ago. Since their inception, they have been viewed as the vanguard for national ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Annette Gordon-Reed about the Republican Party’s own civil war in the late 1860s, over the nature of Reconstruct...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 07:09
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian David Blight talks with host Ed Ayers about the continuing impact of the Civil War in shaping the context within which the march took pla...
Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 12:22
- Purchases: 2
Here is a peice Makalah did for Black Music Month back in June.
- Added: Jul 07, 2013
- Length: 01:08
Public transportation is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than driving a car, but in cities where it is widely used—like New York, Boston ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 05:52
