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This week marks the 49th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, when 1300 prisoners in New York state overcame physical, social, and political barrier...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
A classic rocker's take on some songs of Muddy Waters.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 59:58
- Purchases: 1
From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 22:24
- 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
His work helped close four of the most infamous cold cases of the Civil Right Movement. Jerry Mitchell is one of the most celebrated investigative ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 48:16
When we say the words, “the talk”, it probably conjures up the awkward conversation one has with their children about the birds and the bees. Howev...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 58:43
The JSP Records label recently released a new album of unreleased material of Chicago's Bluesman Fenton Robinson which was recorded in England and ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 59:56
Kentuckians fought on both sides of the Civil War but came together at war’s end to oppose a common foe—newly emancipated African Americans yearnin...
Bought by KRSC, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 22
The history of slavery is often taught as a bitter chapter of America’s past that has been rectified. But in Kentucky that history has been rarely ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU and more
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 23
Due to prohibitions against enslaved people learning to read and write, there are only a few written records left behind by formerly enslaved Kentu...
Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, WKMS and more
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 22
A piece of local history audio storytelling exploring a now-defunct predominantly black church in Mount Vernon, Ohio, through the voices of its for...
- Added: Sep 16, 2020
- Length: 16:07
An experience nof hearing a blue musician in a real blues club in Chicago.
- Added: Jul 17, 2020
- Length: 59:42
Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
