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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
Kesha Powell and Amen Emile have been working at BPL for over 20 years in various roles, from public safety to circulation manager. Thanks to BPL's...
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 13:48
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
There are periods when history comes to a boil – when powerful forces of both destruction and creation result in massive social change. In 2020, th...
- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 28:30
There is a growing movement to redefine manhood, and to address ways that violence is baked into our cultural expectations of masculinity. Courageo...
- Added: Sep 20, 2022
- Length: 28:30
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
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
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
A caring black musician is dedicated to convincing Ku Klux Klansmen to leave the organization through the power of music and conversation.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
A prepatory school in disheveled Newark New Jersey successfully helps young men reach their highest potential.
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 02:21
Ingrid Douglas never finished high school as a teenager. When she started looking for a better job at age sixty, she found not having a degree was ...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
Every school day in February, first grade teacher LaToya McGriff dresses up to teach Black History.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Bard College, a small Private University in New York State, offers the Bard Prison Initiative, or BPI, to interested inmates who have committed ser...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:33
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
We're talking about chess on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries! We'll join Warren Woodberry, the founder of multiple award-winning aft...
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 06:04
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
Join us today as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and we share stories and songs, bringing focus to the Civil Rights Movement.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, Radio Catskill and more
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 7
We get inspired with the Alphabet Rockers, two time Grammy nominees, and the premier children's hip hop band.
Bought by KDLG, KQRU FM LP, RadioFreePalmer, WCNY, KRSC and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2020
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 12
We get inspired with the Alphabet Rockers, two time Grammy nominees, and the premier children's hip hop band.
- Added: Dec 04, 2020
- Length: 58:00
How does historical wellness play out in race and gender? Tune in to learn about historical wellness and its relation to a Black student’s and Bla...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 59:01
How does historical wellness play out in race and gender? Tune in to learn about historical wellness and its relation to a Black student’s and Bla...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 58:06
Margaret and Matilda Roumania Peters were sisters and tennis champions in the 1930s, long before Serena and Venus Williams. While still in high sch...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
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
This show highlights the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the opportunity to interview the Active Executive Director, Shelley R...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:40
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
