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During Black History Month, we reflect on a debate that confronts America’s complex history with racial and social inequality. How can we ensure fa...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Host Martha Burk
February is Black History Month, officially recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976. It was about time. The 1960s had seen crucial economic gai...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by WTJU, KUHF, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUHF, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Liberty  & Justice For Some: Two Centuries of Independent Black Leaders & Political Movements
Here’s a seemingly inexplicable historical event: How did the anti-slavery Republican party take the White House in 1861, only six years after its ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 32:00
Caption: Karen Cox
Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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In 2016, Lashrecse Aird made history as the youngest woman ever elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

Bought by WCPN, KVCR, WYPL, KUAT, WVPE and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 15
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In 2016, Lashrecse Aird made history as the youngest woman ever elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRDP, WJCU and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
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In 2016, Lashrecse Aird made history as the youngest woman ever elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

Bought by WCPN, KVCR, KUAT, KUHF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 7
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and PhD cand...

Bought by KHEN-LP and WCNY


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 2
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and PhD cand...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and PhD cand...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and PhD cand...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again.

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 13
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If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
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If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
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Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
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Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...

Bought by WWNO


  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Paul Ortiz
A "Bottom-Up" history of the U.S. from an African-American and Latinx viewpoint.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WJAB


  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 2
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WUGA (part of GPB), Georgia Public Broadcasting, WNSB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 6