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Oscar Dunn And The New Orleans Monument That Never Happened
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Oscar James Dunn, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868–1871, Credit: Mathew Brady Studio / National Archive
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 12:20
Fight For Five: The Flambeaux Strike Of 1946
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Mystick Krewe of Comus, 1933 Parade, Credit: The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection / The Historic New Orleans Collection
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a retrospective look at Mardi Gras, and the year that carnival took place in the dark. Hear the TriPod Xtra...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 12:02
TriPod Xtras: Rien Fertel On Flambeaux
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Krewe of Cynthius, 1948 Parade, Flambeau Carriers. , Credit: The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection / The Historic New Orleans Collection
Tripod Xtras feature one on one interviews with special guests. This week’s TriPod episode focuses on Mardi Gras 1946 and the strike of the flambea...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 23:25
Georgetown University Sold 272 Enslaved People To Louisiana: The Descendants Speak (Part II)
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Wm. & Charity Harris are the great grandparents of Sandra Green Thomas. Wm.'s parents, Betsy Ware & Samuel Harris, were two of the 272 people sold by Georgetown University to two Louisiana plantations in 1838. , Credit: Sandra Green Thomas
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part two of its series about one of the largest sales of enslaved people in our country’s history, and an a...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 12:21
Georgetown University Sold 272 Enslaved People To Louisiana: The Descendants Speak (Part I)
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Healy Hall at Georgetown University, Credit: Georgetown University
TriPod: New Orleans @300 returns with the first in a two-part series about one of the largest sales of enslaved people in our country’s history. In...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:50
The New Orleans Scholars Take On The St. Augustine Church
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Coverglass and matt bound together with black paper tape. View looking along the 1200 block of Governor Nicholls Street in Treme, with the church visible in midview. , Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection, Gift of Mrs. Joy Segura, acc. no. 2004.0096.68
This is a special edition of TriPod New Orleans @300. Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson handed the mic over to the New Orleans Scholars, a group of st...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:10
Mother Catherine Seals And The Temple Of The Innocent Blood
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Photograph of Mother Catherine and her congregation at the Temple of the Innocent Blood, ca. 1929. , Credit: Historic New Orleans Collection, made possible by the Clarisse Claiborne Grima Fund.
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a portrait of Mother Catherine Seals, one of the city’s most prominent 20th century spiritual church leaders.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 12:24
Henriette Delille And The Sisters Of The Holy Family
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The entrance to the Sisters of The Holy Family Motherhouse on Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans East, Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson / WWNO
TriPod New Orleans at 300 returns with a story of The Sisters of the Holy Family, the religious order of nuns for free women of color founded by He...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:25
TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: English: Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, oil on canvas painting by Agostino Brunias, ca. 1764-1796, Credit: Agostino Brunias / ArtDaily.org
There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:58
An Absolute Massacre: The 1866 Riot At The Mechanics' Institute
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Riot in New Orleans... the Struggle for the Flag. 900 block Canal Street., Credit: The Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carre Digital Survey at The Historic New Orleans Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns to remember the 1866 massacre at the city’s Mechanics' Institute. It’s part of a series of episodes on the Recon...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:23
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190), Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection
It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind of like how it is now, except it was 146 years ago.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 1
The Invention of Race: Preview
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Caption: Gomes de Zurara, the Portuguese inventor of blackness (and whiteness), highlighted, on The Monument to the Discoveries in Lisbon, Portugal., Credit: Harvey Barrison
Preview for upcoming 1-hour special, telling the story of the construction of race, and racism, as we live with them today.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 06:47
Shackled Legacy: Universities and the Slave Trade
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Frank Campbell was a teenager when he was sold to keep Georgetown University afloat. He was one of some 272 enslaved people sold by Jesuits in Maryland to plantations in Louisiana., Credit: Ellender Memorial Library, Nicholls State University
(9/4/2017) As more schools begin to confront their participation in slavery, they also consider how to make amends.

Bought by WWNO, WMUU-LP, WNCU, WUFT, KOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Separate and Unequal
From: Lester Graham
Caption: President Johnson with Kerner Commission, Credit: LBJ Library
Uprisings and riots by African Americans in 1967 left white people shocked and surprised. A presidential commission was assigned to look into why i...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WITF, WAMU, MPR News Stations, KJZZ and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 50:28
  • Purchases: 16
Thelonious Monk: From Myth to Man (Part 2)
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, presenting the second of a two-part program exploring the life and music of Thelonious Monk, with special gue...

Bought by KMUW, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Thelonious Monk: From Man to Myth (Part 1)
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hourlong program of classic jazz, presenting the first of a two-part program exploring the life and music of Thelonious Monk, with special guest...

Bought by KMUW, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
Portraits of Harlem
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring musical tributes to the so-called “Black Metropolis,” including Duke Ellington’s “Harlem,” Roy Eldr...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, 90.5 WSNC, WUCF, and WCPN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Police Officer
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...

Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 4
Spies of Mississippi
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced b...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Freeman Vines: The Hanging Tree Guitar
From: Music Maker Relief Foundation
Series: Music Maker Minute - Race in U.S.
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Luthier, Freeman Vines talks about the guitar he's building from the wood of the old hanging tree.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 09:15
The Name of God
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 47:05
From Kremlin to Kremlin (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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We may be in a period of historic closeness between Russia and the United States, but there was a time when hundreds of African-American scientists...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 4
Black History Matters: The Civil Rights Era in Living Memory
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint
This piece features the voices of black Americans who came of age during the civil rights era: an era that lives with a mix of pain and pride in th...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black History Matters: Black and Proud
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint
Black and Proud explores the era when African Americans began to aggressively challenge myths of inferiority. As Martha Bouyer, a participant in th...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KISU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 6
Black History Matters: Racial Propaganda
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
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Harvard Professor Emertus, Psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint discusses the long history of efforts to undermine the self-esteem and well-being of black ...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 4

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