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The Importance of Expanding America’s Hidden Historical Narratives
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Rotterdam Slavery Memorial, Credit: Courtesy of Pixabay
We discuss why preserving and expanding historical narratives is important to protecting our future with Cordell Reaves from the New York State Off...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 34:38
Episode Four: Facing the Past
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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There are clear lines that connect the legacy of slavery to many of our present day issues, including the racial inequities of COVID-19 infection a...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, KSQD Santa Cruz, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 19
EP133 Living Blues Magazine 50 years
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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The Year 2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of one of the best magazines on African-American Blues Tradition. This episode honors and congratulates th...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:56
Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress
Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 8
The Capitalized Womb: The Slave-Breeding Industry in America
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Slave Auction, Virginia, by LeFevre Cranstone, c. 1860s
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry, by Constance and Ned Sublet, is an extensive accounting of American slavery, do...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 1
New Orleans' Hidden Black History
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: Celebrating Black History with World Footprints
Caption: Mardi Gras Indian costume at New Orleans' African American Museum., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
World Footprints uncovers the little known stories about African American history in New Orleans from the largest slave rebellion in 1811 to the cu...

Bought by WWFM, WAER Syracuse, NY, and KISA Digital Studios


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 3
Traveling the Underground Railroad from Virginia to Buxton, Ontario
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: Celebrating Black History with World Footprints
Caption: Unmarked graves on Yellow Hill, Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
World Footprints travels along one path of the Underground Railroad starting in Norfolk, Virginia and finishing in Buxton, Ontario. We will also s...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:55
Unsung Abolitionist, William Howard Day
From: WITF
Caption: William Howard Day
The first African-American to become the president of a school board, William Howard Day worked with famous abolitionists Frederick Douglas and Har...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 03:55
Exploring Laura Plantation and New Orleans' Faubourg Treme
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Main house on Laura Plantation, Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Take a tour with World Footprints on the famed Laura Plantation with a descendant of the historical Locoul family. Walk through New Orleans famed ...

Bought by KISA Digital Studios


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 1
With New Focus, Episcopal Church Of Louisiana Addressing A History Of Racism
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Caption: Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church., Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
The Episcopal Church of Louisiana spent the past year making plans for a new ministry, aiming to address its history of racism, as well as other fo...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
The Taj Mahal Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
The Hidden History of a One Room School
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Harrington School, Credit: PGraitcer
When the tiny African American community on Georgia's St Simon's Island set out to save its one-room schoolhouse, it didn't realize that the buildi...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 1
Following Harriet Tubman
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's News Features
Caption: The Bucktown Village Store where Harriet Tubman received a head injury that would impact her entire life, Credit: courtesy of Andrew Hiller
This feature explores the life and some of the myths of Harriet Tubman with interviews by experts from Cambridge, MD, the town where "Moses" was bo...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 3
Searching for Roots
From: Philip Graitcer
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Searching for African American ancestors is not easy

  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:28
Black Belt Poverty
From: Tanya Ott
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The Black Belt of the Deep South stretches from Virginia to Texas. It got its name from the dark, rich soil that made cotton production a highly p...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
DNA evidence leads to freedom.
From: David Barasoain
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Prisoner freedom after a 17 year wrongful conviction.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2004
  • Length: 06:30