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An interview with the co-directors of the documentary Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes. The interview paints a comprehensive picture of Max Roach's...
- Added: Jan 15, 2024
- Length: 29:01
Climate affects everyone, but not equally. Those affected first and worst are often the same communities that suffer from housing and income inequa...
- Added: Nov 09, 2023
- Length: 58:57
San Francisco is considering reparations for Black San Franciscans. To understand why advocates are pushing for reparations in the city, we dive de...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KALW
- Added: Jun 15, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
This program is a second in a conversation with author Phil Allen, Jr., in which he highlights the prophetic potential of the camera. Its imagery p...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Originally Broadcast: February 13, 2012
The exodus of approximately six million black people from the American South between 1915 and 1970 had a s...
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts William Hosea and Natalia Galvan speak with two women of color who are vying for local and national polit...
- Added: Dec 11, 2021
- Length: 59:00
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
Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...
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- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...
- Added: Dec 29, 2020
- Length: 29:59
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
A wide-ranging discussion about the pursuit of racial justice in a historically white institution like the University of Iowa; racial barriers that...
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 01:27:08
The centerpiece in today’s program is our talk about the essay “The Suffering of Strangers” which details a visit Sanders took to Charleston, South...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 59:06
- Purchases: 1
In the Summer of 2020, we revisit a discussion on police killings of Black people from 2016 after the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castil...
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 59:03
Most of us wish to know our family history. Our ancestry. It’s part of understanding and coming to terms with our own identity. But, what if there ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 23, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Rep. James Clyburn speaks with his granddaughter, Sydney Reed, about the lessons he’s learned from success and failure.
- Added: Mar 10, 2020
- Length: 03:04
Edra Soto is a Puerto Rico born, Chicago based, interdisciplinary artist, educator and curator whose architectural projects connect with communitie...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 12:39
Michelle Alexander, Mark Lamont Hill and Vonya Quarles discuss the modern prison abolition movement, what's changed in the past ten years, and the ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Ep 4 features pop culture and politics journalist & host from NBC BLK, MSNBC, NY Times and Essence writer, @JarrettHill. He talks plagiarism, Fir...
- Added: Nov 23, 2018
- Length: 43:18
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
What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights an...
Bought by Interlochen Public Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 56:29
- Purchases: 1
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.
Bought by Harford Community Radio
- Added: Sep 12, 2018
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Before the 17th century, being white didn’t even exist as a racial category. The idea of “whiteness” evolved in the slave-based economies of the En...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...
- Added: Jun 07, 2018
- Length: 24:54
