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With the last of nine base renamings, the Army helps cast aside the myth of the Confederacy
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Retired Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg stands in front of the newly named Gregg-Adams Club at the former Fort Lee, Virginia in April 2023. The club was off limits to Gregg and other Black Soldiers when he became an officer in 1950. Gregg now shares the new name, Credit: Terrance Bell / U.S. Army
Historians said the renamings – like the removal of many Confederate statues in recent years – are part of a more accurate understanding of the Con...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 9
Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 11
The Sabotage of Black Education: The Fight Against Rahm Emanuel to Save Dyett High School
From: When We Fight, We Win!
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The continued closures of our public schools and high-stakes testing illustrate the institutionalized racism embedded in our educational system. Ji...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:23
The Myth Justice is Blind to Money, Part 3: The City
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Part 3 The Myth Justice is Blind to Money, Part 3 investigates the impact of the Federal Court’s involvement in Orleans Parish’s practic...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Myth Justice is Blind to Money, Part 2: The System
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Episode 2 Part 2 of The Myth Justice is Blind to Money looks at one prior attempt to get rid of money bail, and how this attempt was thw...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
People who've served time are being left out of voting
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 1 Louisiana, unlike many of its Deep South neighbors, restores voting rights to citizens with felony convictions after they have...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
Police Psychological Screening with Dr. Richard Zonderman- Miami Dade College School of Justice Police Academy, Formerly CIA Washington D.C.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Police Psychological Screening with Dr. Richard Zonderman- Miami Dade College School of Justice Police Academy, Formerly CIA(Central Intelligence A...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Alabama Had No Compassion Then. Now None for Women?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "The Arc of the moral universe is long but it moves toward justice."., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry today asks if Alabama's long history of lack of compassion toward people of color now appears again in their lack of...

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: :54
Episode 4: Great Things Happen When You Just #DoYou
From: L. Michelle Smith
Series: The Culture Soup Podcast
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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
Want A Path Toward Police-Community Reconciliation? Acknowledge The Past
From: Megan Harris
Series: Criminal Injustice
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Many American cities are struggling with police-community relations, and racial divisions are often the heart of the problem. David Kennedy talks a...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Legal Codes
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 2
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How are algorithms and data science making their way into the American criminal justice system?

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 32:20
Helene Cooper & “Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author describes the journey of Liberia’s Sirleaf, honors the amazingly resilient Liberian women who put her into office, an...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 09:48
The Tragic Birth of Black Populism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today, we’ll take a look at the development and destruction of Black Populism in the post-bellum South, discovering the strategies, institutions, a...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Sound of Resistance: Protest or Pose
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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We’ll look at three songs: “Strange Fruit” sung by Billie Holiday (and recently sampled by Kanye West); “We Almost Lost Detroit” by Gill Scott Hero...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 55:38
  • Purchases: 2
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO -- Raoul Peck Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Raoul Peck, San Francisco, CA 11/7/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Raoul Peck talks defining moments, constructing mythologies, and finding the right title.

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2016
  • Length: 23:00
  • 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...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:03
  • Purchases: 2
Scapegoating Our Cities
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Blue dots in a sea of red. The electoral map presents a distorted picture belying where most of the country’s population lives, and where the most ...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 1
July 18, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Liz Mitchell and Cornelius Wright host a discussion on the recent Bloomington rally for Black Lives Matter with Lia Robinson, and Amrita Myers. Res...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:01
July 25, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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William Hosea and Cornelius Wright invite Ms. Oyibo Afoaku, a higher education professional, to Bring It On to discuss the Harambe concept, her de...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:49
Contenders (Hour Special)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
Caption: William Jennings Bryan
Portraits of some of America’s most groundbreaking and unusual presidential candidates...who never won the white house.

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 22
Ghosts, Dogs, and the Law: On Constructing Criminality and Negating Persons
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our program is a conversation with Colin Dayan, author most recently of two lauded books, With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White Dog....

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 58:05
May 9, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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On this evening’s episode of Bring It On, William Hosea and Liz Mitchell welcome Stanley Madison, chairman and founder of the Lyles Station Histori...

  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 55:42
TRAPPED -- Dawn Porter Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Dawn Porter, San Francisco, CA, 3/9/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dawn Porter talks checking her bias, the separation of church and state, and the gods of documentary filmmaking.

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 21:38
  • Purchases: 1
ALLAN WOLPER TALKS TO DAVID DINKINS ABOUT HIS LEGACY
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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David Dinkins made political history in 1990 when he was sworn in as the first African American mayor of New York City. Dinkins, now a professor at...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
LAST DAY OF FREEDOM -- Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman, San Francisco, CA 12/28/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman talk distance, authenticity, and having a free hand.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:56