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Many questions remain about the recent attack on North Carolina’s electrical grid, which left tens of thousands of citizens unsettled, frightened a...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more
- Added: Dec 14, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
One of the most distinctive voices in civil rights history re-emerges to tell his own story.
Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 20, 2021
- Length: 01:57:59
- Purchases: 24
One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:26:58
Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:06:54
Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:23:34
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
Although the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre in the summer of 1921 is now recognized as part of Americas ugly past, another similar act of carnage of equa...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Dean of the School of Health and Human...
- Added: Jun 11, 2020
- Length: 40:51
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Dean of the School of Health and Human...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jun 11, 2020
- Length: 31:37
- Purchases: 1
"Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law."
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 03:30
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
his week is the first part of our interview with Mark Cook. Mark served 24 years in prison for his participation in a bank robbery and jail break a...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 30:00
The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively,...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:58
We go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into
the history of Midwestern prison resistance. We share more of the story
of Si...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 29:54
This week, we return to the experiences and stories of Sekou Kambui, who was incarcerated for 47 years in Alabama prisons. He was originally charg...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 29:57
Last Friday, June 19th, was Juneteenth--do you know what that is?
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 01:01:56
The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a speech by Cornell West, the author of The Radical King, an anthology of Martin Luther King Jr.’s essays,...
- Added: Mar 21, 2015
- Length: 01:00:39
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 1
Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:24
Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 20:25
- Purchases: 3
