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In the annals of racist terrorism, few acts were more hideous or cowardly than the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 34:47
Caption: Oil painting of La Amistad off the coast of Long Island , Credit: Courtesy of the New Haven Museum
This week on World Ocean Radio: part four of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this episode we discuss the history of La Amis...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 05:30
Caption: Original collage art by Damon Davis
Narratives around people of color added fire to the social unrest of the late 1960s. In this episode of Generation Justice, we look at the Kerner R...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 45:27
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William Hosea and Roberta Radovich welcome Liz Mitchell and Dr. Charlie Nelms

  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 56:09
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Wil talks with Jonathan Mason, International President, Phi Beta Sigma.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 16:51
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First, Medgar Evers was heavily involved in civil rights activism and was instrumental in efforts to end segregation in Mississippi. His widow, Myr...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Lawrence Cumberbatch (R) tells his son, Simeon (L), how he traveled from New York City to Washington DC with Brooklyn CORE for the March on Washing...

Bought by WEZU, WRIR, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...

Bought by KRZA and WSLR


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
Bill Moyers and Rep. John Lewis revisit the 1963 March on Washington. How did it transform America? Next on Moyers & Company.

Bought by WPSU, KVMR, KBRP Community Radio, KTRL, KPVL and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 28
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First, Medgar Evers was heavily involved in civil rights activism and was instrumental in efforts to end segregation in Mississippi. His widow, Myr...

Bought by WCNY, WCSU-FM, KPVL, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 4
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Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Myiesha Taylor, prominent emergency room physician and advocate working with the Disney corporation to inte...

Bought by WMMT and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
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One-hour documentary **UPDATED for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

Bought by WVAS, WMNF, WRVO Public Media, KMUN, KWIT and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 55:36
  • Purchases: 8
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Filmmaker Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno talks with P.O.V. about the making of her film "Revolution '67"

  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 06:52
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A six-foot piece of jail-grade toilet paper from 1963 captures Civil Rights struggle

Bought by WABE, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 7