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An African-American and Latinx History of the United States: A Conversation with Paul Ortiz
From: John Shuck
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
Making Obama: Part 2
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
StoryCorps Griot: Dion Diamond
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dion Diamond talks about the risks he took as a young civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
TriPod Xtras: Rashauna Johnson on "Slavery's Metropolis"
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Rashauna Johnson (left) and TriPod host Laine Kaplan-Levenson discuss Johnson's award winning book "Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions" at the 2017 Organization of American Historians Conference.
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with another edition of TriPod Xtras. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Dartmouth history professor Rashauna Johnso...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 20:17
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
Alicia Garza: On Historical Amnesia, and Fighting White Supremacy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We interview Alicia Garza, Special Projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and one of the founding leaders of Black Lives Mat...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Stand Your Ground: America's Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Caroline Light
Harvard Professor, Caroline Light, explores the racist "Stand Your Ground" history.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #110: In Studio San Quentin: Unequal Protection
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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What does color of skin have to do with equal access to justice in America? The Equal Protection Clause, part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitu...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2017
  • Length: 48:40
A Curse Upon the Nation (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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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
BHM Special: A Curse Upon the Nation (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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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
BHM Special: A Curse Upon the Nation (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism

Bought by WLPR , KPSQ-LP, WLPR , WNSB, and WVAS


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
A Curse Upon the Nation (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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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...

  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: :30
A Curse Upon the Nation (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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 WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCWP, WRGY, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 6
A Curse Upon the Nation (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WXDU, KWMR, WNSB and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 15
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
Fire and Tears
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Dr Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop
The Legacy of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and A Sermon to White America

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 77: Urban Renewal 2.0
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 21:27
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
RDD: A Conversation with Pete Culp
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on the RDD, Haley meets with Pete Culp, a member of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board of directors. Baldemar Velasquez nominat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Wages of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Color Line
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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He straddles the more essential American Century, from the failure of Reconstruction to the March on Washington, not demarcated by round numbers an...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WCPN


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:03
  • Purchases: 2
Mapping the KKK (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-An animated, online map shows for the first time just how the Ku Klux Klan spread rapidly to all 50 states between 1915 and 1940. -Tracing the “e...

Bought by WJCT, WRFA-LP, WFHB, WJCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Slaves Waiting For Sale (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How one particular painting of slaves waiting for sale changed things at the outbreak of the American Civil War; What was the real reason many Unio...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
Slaves Waiting For Sale (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How one particular painting of slaves waiting for sale changed things at the outbreak of the American Civil War; What was the real reason many Unio...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KRZA, WLPR , KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 12