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America's Black Capital
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Cover of the book, "America's Black Capital", Credit: Hachette Book Group
On this week's episode, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar about his latest book, “America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta ...

Bought by WUWM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: MLK Day- Seeing (Me) Is Believing with author Tami Charles
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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When Tami Charles’ son was in kindergarten, he asked her: “If Dr. King was such a good guy who wanted all these wonderful things for everyone, Momm...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WRKF, RadioStPete Florida, Wyoming Public Radio, WUWM and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 14
The Evolution of Multicultural Education: The CUNY Brooklyn College Story
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this back to school special, we look at the grassroots movement led by student activists with the support of some faculty to establish Africana ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Dreaming with, about, and for the Ancestors with Stephanie Burns, PhD
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Connecting with our ancestors. Our guest Stephanie R. Burns starts by describing her all-inclusive view of ancestors which is far vaster than our b...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:37
Hip-Hop and Arts Education
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Emmett Phillips, Credit: Jennifer Marquez of JamsCreative Photography
Teaching artist Emmett Phillips discusses the dynamic arts education programming he creates through hip-hop.

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 5, 2023
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Extremist Supreme Court Overturns Affirmative Action, Ignoring Decades of ...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Eunice Wiley
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Eunice Wiley and Martha Bireda at their StoryCorps interview in Punta Gorda, Florida on January 23, 2017., Credit: By Vero Ordaz for StoryCorps.
Eunice Wiley shares how becoming one of the only Black teachers at a predominantly white Florida elementary school helped define her as a teacher.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
Black Heritage Library & Multicultural Center
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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The mission of the Black Heritage Library & Multicultural Center is to build community awareness, appreciation and understanding of the value of cu...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
Poet and NAACP Image Award Winner Patricia Smith: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, we'll hear from Patricia Smith, the author of eight poetry books and the 2021 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for li...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bomb Threats Shake HBCUs During Black History Month
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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More than 20 Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) received bomb threats at the start of Black History Month — including a threat on V...

Bought by KSFR, KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Nelson, Dr. Alondra: "Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for February 16, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Europe’s Dependence on Russian Gas Key Element in the Ukraine Crisis; GOP ...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WETS


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Rod Graham: The Fight Over Affirmative Action
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
Back in 2016 the US Supreme Court established that the University of Texas could continue to consider race as a factor in admissions, in order to e...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Toledo Excel
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Since it began in 1988, TOLEDO EXCEL, a scholarship incentive program at The University of Toledo, has been striving to prepare underrepresented st...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Nelson, Alondra— "Health Care & The Black Panthers"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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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
BHM at the Library
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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To kick off our series of BHM programming we're starting at the Toledo Public Library system, highlighting the programming and organizing efforts t...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
Fletcher Word
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Fletcher Word is a native of New York City and grew up in the Washington, DC area, but today we're talking about his contributions to his local Ohi...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 1
Dream of Detroit
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Dream of Detroit combines community organizing with housing and land development to build a healthy community and empower a marginalized neighborho...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Civil Rights Trail, Academic Acceleration, Wild Horse Fertility
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Following the Civil Rights Trail and Touching the History of the Movement; Topic 2: Why Gifted Youth May Not Want to Skip out on Grade-Ski...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KOWS, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 51:43
  • Purchases: 4
National Writers Series: Dax-Devlon Ross and Susie Yang
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Discussions with authors Dax-Devlon Ross ("Letters to My White Male Friends") and Susie Yang ("White Ivy").

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Aug 28, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Civil Rights: Plessy v Ferguson
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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"Separate" did not start here.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 22:26
Civil Rights: Dred Scott v Sandford
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The anticanon case that had to be undone through Constitutional amendment.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Liz King: Civil Rights In Our Public Schools
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Liz King
One front on which the fight for racial justice is being waged is in the area of education. We have been led to believe that education is the great...

Bought by WFHB and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
"Randall Kennedy – Can You Say This Word?"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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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
"Lynda Koolish, Ph.D. – African American Writers"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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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