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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...
Bought by WUWM, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
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
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
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
"Separate" did not start here.
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 22:26
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
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
In this year's celebration of Black History Month and the 50th Anniversary of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, author and journali...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 50:32
From: When We Fight, We Win!
The continued closures of our public schools and high-stakes testing illustrate the institutionalized racism embedded in our educational system. Ji...
- Added: Aug 02, 2020
- Length: 58:23
In this episode, we share a phone call and three short essays from Timothy Smith. Smith spoke to us from inside Cook County Jail, the most recent p...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 25:15
This week on the show: Once they have completed their medical degree, many Ghanaian doctors prefer to move to Europe or North America instead of wo...
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 30:00
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.
Bought by Harford Community Radio
- Added: Sep 12, 2018
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Celebrating Influential African American Albums From The Civil Rights Era To Present- Day
- Added: Apr 21, 2018
- Length: 01:07:12
Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.
- Added: Feb 27, 2018
- Length: 05:00
Bring It On co-anchors William Hosea and Jim Sims welcome Indiana State Senator and attorney Greg Taylor (representing District 33) to discuss the ...
- Added: Jan 12, 2018
- Length: 59:11
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump Justice Department Revokes 25 Guidance Documents Affecting Civil Rig...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A historian and a journalist speak about the devaluation of human life past and present in America.
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Discussion on the lingering history of racist ideology in the Americas and beyond.
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 01:00:02
Poverty can persist in the same communities for generations, especially communities of color. Professor Darrick Hamilton walks through the policies...
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 27:15
In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 11:30
- Purchases: 2
Thousands of kids are arrested in school every year. About a third of U.S. schools have a regular police presence on campus; some school districts ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, WABE, and KUOW
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 4
Thousands of kids are arrested in school every year. About a third of U.S. schools have a regular police presence on campus; some school districts ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2014
- Length: 17:23
- Purchases: 3
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
Consider spending time on death row and turning that experience into the drive to get a doctorate?
- Added: Nov 16, 2009
- Length: 29:00
Bethany Ocansey reminisces about the influence of racism on her childhood and how it didn't affect her until she moved from Europe to America.
- Added: Sep 11, 2006
- Length: 03:55
