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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:53
We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:27
Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for
"Black History Month".
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 13:00
The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 40:50
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 33:44
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 10:12
How does a society create meaningful places of encounter? Spaces where you just can't look away from the past?
Bought by KUHF, WHRV, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS, WMRA and more
- Added: Sep 28, 2022
- Length: 51:57
- Purchases: 6
Once we accept culpability for a sinful past, what does accountability look like? Even generations after?
Bought by KUHF, WHRV, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS, WMRA and more
- Added: Sep 28, 2022
- Length: 51:57
- Purchases: 6
When Charlotte was a teenager she asked her mother a question: was my grandfather a Nazi? It began a years-long quest to learn more about what her ...
Bought by KUHF, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WHRV and more
- Added: Sep 28, 2022
- Length: 51:57
- Purchases: 8
Why would someone return to a place of unspeakable trauma and what does it take for them to feel welcomed?
Bought by KUHF, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS and more
- Added: Sep 28, 2022
- Length: 51:57
- Purchases: 8
We start with three generations of German women, and go back in time from there. Through defeat, occupation, and rebuilding. How did two reconstruc...
Bought by KUHF, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, WCQS and more
- Added: Sep 28, 2022
- Length: 51:57
- Purchases: 8
"Welcoming Spring" is a classical music program featuring vocal classical music, piano classical music, and symphony orchestra music by musicians, ...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Aug 04, 2022
- Length: 01:00:45
- Purchases: 1
At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
When it comes to racism, many white Americans can intellectualize it and some can personalize it through the experience of others but the real chan...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 01:59:05
His lynching was said to have propelled the Civil Rights Movement but what really happened to the 14 year old boy from Chicago and what can we lear...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 01:47:41
Her book is back on the NYT Best Seller list and for a very good reason. “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” as been called both ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 02:17:15
How should we talk about race and racism in America when the divide between Black and white can be so vast?
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:08:18
Who should own the narrative when it comes to talking about slavery and Jim Crow? Lance Wheeler, is the former Curator of Exhibition & Interpreters...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 53:24
The n-word is loaded with a history of hate and death. Today, the word's meaning has transformed but the echoes of its past remain. Who's word is i...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:33:06
Is there a subconscious belief amongst whites that only they can "save" people of color? Have they been conditioned by society to see themselves as...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:34:42
Whites too often see themselves as the real victims of racism and they might have point but it’s not the one they thought they were making. Are whi...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:00:32
Many of us want to help change the narrative and be anti-racist partners in the good fight. This was true of civil rights activists coming to Missi...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:14:23
Education is the gateway to the future in America. Our system is built around it but major colleges and universities continue to be predominantly w...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:16:43
Don Carter is a former police officer who spent nearly 10 years on the beat. He knows how the system works. He's also African American.
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:29:21
Being black in America is exhausting and even deadly. Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) is real and impacts the health and well-being of millions. What i...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:06:39
