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This program was recorded on February 19, 2016.
Who we are and where we come from is a crucial question that now we are more able to answer than e...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Originally Broadcast: February 13, 2012
The exodus of approximately six million black people from the American South between 1915 and 1970 had a s...
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is...
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
The voice of a writer can be heard in words, and sometimes seen in the writer’s face. It is unusua...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is arguably the most consequential social insult in ...
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In part 2 of our conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
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: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Recorded at Decca Studios late one night into the early morning hours in 1947, three Chicago musicians reminisced their former times in early 20th ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 01:52:28
Freedom Rider, Dave Dennis, never thought about getting involved in the Civil Rights Movement but he did want a date with a pretty young lady.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:31:59
On September 29 of 2018 the Blues world lost one of it’s Iconic artists of the West-side Chicago Blues sound Otis Rush. Although he had not perform...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:32
An active musician in the world of Blues since he was a youth under his father's wings, Bernard Allison is still going strong after some 37 years o...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:52
The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 11:13
Honoring the late John Hope Franklin
- Added: Apr 05, 2009
- Length: 29:00
5 generations share essays on Race from This I Believe archive
- Added: Nov 10, 2007
- Length: 24:40
5 generational essays from This I Believe archive on Race
- Added: Oct 17, 2007
- Length: 24:40
This is the first in a five-part radio series focusing on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The leaders demanded an end to segreg...
Bought by Louisville Public Media, KUT, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WEAA, WJAB and more
- Added: Sep 30, 2003
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 7