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On today's show, we hear from noted author, scholar, and self-described intellectual freedom fighter, Dr. Cornel West. In his discussions, West use...
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- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Student activists in York, Pennsylvania organized a silent protest when hundreds of books were banned from their classrooms, paving the way for las...
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 28:10
“Our bodies aren’t the problem,” rethinking the stories we tell about weight and health with dietician Jessica Wilson.
- Added: Sep 20, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Is it possible to study human remains ethically?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 44:44
Host Iggy Monda takes listeners inside America’s locker rooms and field houses to explore hazing in high school sports today. Through deeply person...
- Added: Apr 07, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
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
Kevin Washington views himself as an artist in the tradition of Pharaoh Sanders and john and Alice Coltrane, of spirituality and healing. Kevin lea...
- Added: Oct 14, 2022
- Length: 08:00
This program is a second in a conversation with author Phil Allen, Jr., in which he highlights the prophetic potential of the camera. Its imagery p...
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- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Add curator to a long list of Chaka Mkali's professional accomplishments. In the tradition of fellow Afrofuturists who have looked to the sky for i...
- Added: Jan 29, 2022
- Length: 06:16
When Donald Trump rode a wave of white anxiety into the White House, it was part of a backlash to the Obama presidency, one that revealed an increa...
- Added: Jun 21, 2021
- Length: 28:30
Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...
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- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- 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
A wide-ranging discussion about the pursuit of racial justice in a historically white institution like the University of Iowa; racial barriers that...
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 01:27:08
The classical music world doesn't just happen to be so white. It worked hard to stay that way.
- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 23:38
Season 1, Episode 10
Asha Lane, a senior at one of New Orleans' high schools (all of which are charter schools) investigates why security and disc...
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- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:26
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Most of us wish to know our family history. Our ancestry. It’s part of understanding and coming to terms with our own identity. But, what if there ...
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- Added: Jun 23, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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Permanent subjection or exile. Even the abolitionists of the 1800s beloved those were the options for African-American youth.
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- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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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...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 27:37
- 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
Aden Batar speaks with his son Jamal Batar about fleeing civil war and being among the first Somali refugee families to resettle in Utah.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 02:13
Michigan native Marcus Wicker reads from his 2011 National Poetry Series winning collection, MAYBE THE SADDEST THING, which was also a finalist for...
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- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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Ep 4 features pop culture and politics journalist & host from NBC BLK, MSNBC, NY Times and Essence writer, @JarrettHill. He talks plagiarism, Fir...
- Added: Nov 23, 2018
- Length: 43:18
Before the 17th century, being white didn’t even exist as a racial category. The idea of “whiteness” evolved in the slave-based economies of the En...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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