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BHM Special: The Life of Arthur Ashe (promo)
From: With Good Reason
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The life and times of athlete, author, and activist Arthur Ashe - Profiling a program to help African-American college students graduate - The unli...

Bought by WNSB


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
BHM Special: The Life of Arthur Ashe (hour)
From: With Good Reason
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The life and times of athlete, author, and activist Arthur Ashe - Profiling a program to help African-American college students graduate - The unli...

Bought by WNSB and WXDU


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 2
BHM Special: The Life of Arthur Ashe (half)
From: With Good Reason
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The life and times of athlete, author, and activist Arthur Ashe - Profiling a program to help African-American college students graduate

Bought by WNSB and KKRN


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Life of Arthur Ashe (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The life and times of athlete, author, and activist Arthur Ashe - Profiling a program to help African-American college students graduate - The unli...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
The Life of Arthur Ashe (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The life and times of athlete, author, and activist Arthur Ashe - Profiling a program to help African-American college students graduate - The unli...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
The Life of Arthur Ashe (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The life and times of African-American athlete, activist, and author Arthur Ashe - Profiling a program to help African-American students graduate c...

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WJCU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
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
Life of the Mind: Eric Tang
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Life of the Mind
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In this episode, Caroline Pinkston talks with Eric Tang, assistant professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department about activist ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 05:07
Teaching the Evils of Slavery
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Humanities Minutes
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This episode explores how we teach the subject of slavery in Schools.

Bought by KFOI Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 2
The Life of Arthur Ashe (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Though he first emerged in the public consciousness as a world-class athlete, Arthur Ashe’s subsequent contributions as an author, activist, humani...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, KKRN, and WLIW


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Legacy of Massive Resistance
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. Now, fo...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KPSQ-LP, WLPR , WNSB, Morehead State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 12
Henry Allen Bullock
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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Henry Allen Bullock devoted his life to African-American education.

Bought by KTTZ and KAMU


  • Added: Sep 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Living Legacy: Black Colleges in the 21st Century
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Students at Howard University graduation, class of 2015, Credit: Emily Hanford
Graduates of historically black colleges and universities helped launch the civil rights movement and built the black middle class. But after deseg...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WUFT, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WESM 91.3 FM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Interchange - The Significant Insignificance of Juneteenth
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Last Friday, June 19th, was Juneteenth--do you know what that is?

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:56
Diane Watkins: Bells for Peace
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Diane Watkins of Richmond, Virginia.
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...

  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 27:33
Melvin Tolson
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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Melvin Tolson was a inspirational poet, educator and mentor to a generation of young African-Americans.

Bought by KTTZ and KAMU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Truth About Cultural Bias (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Hoodie Rally in Memory of Trayvon Martin, Credit: Madison Guy, on Flickr
Sharply different reactions to the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial reveal the racial divide that persists in America. We speak with the autho...

Bought by WCNY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KKRN, WTJU, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 5
The Story of Race, with Gary Pomerantz
From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas
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Journalist and nonfiction author Gary Pomerantz conducted over 500 interviews to pen Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, a New York Times notable e...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 14:31
Norris Wright Cuney
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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He was born a slave and became a civic and political force in the years following Reconstruction.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
"Slavery's Exiles: The Story of American Maroons"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN THIS EDITION OF THE CUTTING EDGE, WE BRING YOU A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HISTORIAN ERIC FONER AND SYLVIAN DIOUF, AUTHOR OF “SLAVERY’S EXILES: THE STORY...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:56
School’s Integration After The Brown vs. Board of Education Case
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Education Matters with Pedro Noguera
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In the wake of the decision reached in the Brown v. Board of Education court case, education expert Dr. Pedro Noguera tackles the question as to wh...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
Lessons Learned from Brown vs. Board of Education
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Education Matters with Pedro Noguera
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In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the landmark US Supreme Court case Brown versus Board of Education, internationally renowned education ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Desegregation and the HBCU
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Education Matters with Pedro Noguera
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Internationally renowned education expert Dr. Pedro Noguera discusses how historically black colleges and universities have fared as a result of th...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
Brown –vs.- Board of Education Lawsuit Rationale
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Education Matters with Pedro Noguera
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Internationally renowned education expert Dr. Pedro Noguera reflects on the objectives of the Brown family as he discusses the rationale for the hi...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45