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On the 5 year anniversary of the uprising in Ferguson, MO, we're re-airing this conversation--with new trax acknowledging the date. When Michael Br...
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 9
400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about a...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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
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
In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage producer Jeff Carmack talks about the Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast held ...
- Added: Jan 21, 2018
- Length: 30:45
Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a police officer. Just before he retired as chief, 5 ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 08, 2018
- Length: 29:52
- Purchases: 1
2017 was the 60th anniversary of the stand-off between Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and desegregation at Little Rock Central High School . Today ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2017
- Length: 58:59
One of my most popular shows of 2017. Originally produced in April 2017.
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Coming home from prison, it’s kind of hard to find a job. But I didn’t let that get to me. This is a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it.
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 04:20
The Legacy of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and A Sermon to White America
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 57:58
- Purchases: 2
Generation Justice fellow Matthew Brown reflects on the exploits of Dr. King, and the legacy he left for America.
- Added: Jan 09, 2017
- Length: 02:41
The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Fania Davis.
Dr. Davis is Executive Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 28:30
One of the greatest moments in 2013 came when Deltron 3030 made their long-awaited return. After 13 years, the teaming of Del the Funky Homosapien,...
Bought by KUCB, WLPR , and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Mar 14, 2016
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 3
Tonight we discuss the groundbreaking graphic novel series,March, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis’s life...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 01:00:17
If you have walked the streets of the Bay Area recently -- you might have seen posters featuring the names and faces of Oscar Grant, Renisha McBrid...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
There’s been a lot of controversy over the movie Selma and the Academy Awards. Selma is rightfully centered on Dr. King, and has been rightfully cr...
Bought by KPVL
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
Some call it a new civil rights movement. Others simply call it “black lives matter”. We hear a conversation about waging strategic non-violence be...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Kevin Gordon talks risk, impatience, and why form must follow function.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 12:49
Author Sam Roberts reads about a civil rights pioneer indeed, from his new book. Another example of our daily 100-second show -- great for top-of-t...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Stokely Carmichael was a down-home organizer and radical off-beat visionary of racial equality in America 50 years ago, a quicksilver activist, the...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Sen. Spencer Coggs addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon his return to Madison March 12, 2011
- Added: Mar 12, 2011
- Length: 02:04
Sen. Lena Taylor addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon her return to Madison on March 12, 2011
- Added: Mar 12, 2011
- Length: 01:35
We know what history books say about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech - but what about the people who were there?
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WTIP, KRCB 104.9, WHFR and more
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 05:41
- Purchases: 28
