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Echoes of a Coup

From: Scene on Radio

One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, WYPR, WFDD and more

825: Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds / 826: Growing Justice, 9/2/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds" - In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Mental health challenges can push p...

NANNY -- Nikyatu Jusu and Anna Diop Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Anna Diop and Nikyatu Jusu, San Francisco, CA 10/15/22, Credit: Andrea Chase

Anna Diop and Nikyatu Jusu talk rage, accents, and navigating the tightrope.

Last Witness: The Kerner Commission

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness

Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

The Mint 400

From: Black Mountain Radio

In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...

Episode 158: "If it ever happens, run."

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...

Marking Revolution: Malcolm X and Black-Mindedness

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: Malcolm X photographs Muhammad Ali after his victory over Sonny Liston in 1964. (Photo: Bob Gomel/CC)

Central to the political philosophy of Malcolm X is police brutality – this unaccountable violence undermines any claim that might be made to sugge...

Bought by WLPR

Engulfed in Flames (Radio Race 2020)

From: Alex Lewis

Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television. This piece was produced ...

Bought by WFHB and PRX Remix

Musical Manifesto vs. Contested Monument

From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International

We hear from artist william cordova about the 2014 documentary "silent parade," featuring the New Orleans band, The Soul Rebels, who faced off Robe...

Roses in December (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

What did segregation look like in everyday life and culture? We tell the stories of an African American opera singer and a white woman who transf...

Bought by WCPN, WCNY, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCMU Michigan and more

Roses in December (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-What did the process of legal desegregation look like in everyday life and culture? Jennifer Ritterhouse shares the story of Sarah Patton “Pattie...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WLIW, KRDP and more

I Am Not Your Negro (ENCORE)

From: Making Contact

Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...

Bought by WVAS

Heroes of American Dissent (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

-Michael Higginbotham is the author of "Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism In Post-Racial America". He has a list of people—some well known, some n...

Bought by WCNY, KICI Iowa City, WCSU-FM, WGZS, KEDT and more

Making the Decision to Fight (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-We talk with one of six people suing the Trump administration for rescinding DACA, a program that allows people who came to the U.S. as undocument...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRZA, WFHB, WLPR and more

10 years after the crash: Recovery Not for All

From: Making Contact

Caption: Nomi Prins and Julianne Malveaux

This month is the ten year anniversary of the stock market crash of 2018. Nomi Prins talks about her new book, “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigg...

Pilgrimage (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WCNY, WDSE, WCSU-FM, KWTF community radio for Sonoma County, WTJU and more

Pilgrimage (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WFHB, WNMU-FM, KMUN, and WJCU

AN OUTRAGE: REFLECTIONS ON RACISM, PAST & PRESENT (HALF)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-“An Outrage’ is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. From the end of the Civil War well into the middle of the twentieth centu...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WYAP and more

Making Obama: Part 2

From: WBEZ
Series: 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

Making Obama: Part 1

From: WBEZ
Series: 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

Howard E Williams III

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

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.

Sir Floyd

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

Caption: Sir Lister Floyd, Jr. on 1100 Ward Street, Credit: Wendel Patrick

We meet Sir Lister Floyd, Jr. on the 1110 block of Ward Street

Bought by PRX Remix

Episode 58: Walnut Grove

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In 2010, Michael McIntosh’s son was incarcerated at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in the small town of Walnut Grove, Mississippi. On...

The Sound of Resistance: Protest or Pose

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

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...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio

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.

Bought by WCPN

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