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Black Prophetic Fire
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Cornel West calls for new fervor and love—the kind once heard in Coltrane or B.B. King—in a rising generation.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:14
  • Purchases: 5
"Stokely: A Life"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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Kwame Ture, once known as Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinadad, later moving to the United States at the age of eleven. He would become a lead...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:35
  • Purchases: 1
"A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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"A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic" is the autobiography of New York City's 106th mayor, David Dinkins. The book recounts the li...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:24
10-11: From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like?, 12/3/2014
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dedan Gills & Belvie Rooks
What might happen when the descendants of a white slave trader and of slaves meet? That is the brave and wrenching journey of Thomas DeWolf, whose ...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
TRUE SON -- Kevin Gordon Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Kevin Gordon, San Francisco, CA 6/6/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Kevin Gordon talks risk, impatience, and why form must follow function.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 12:49
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Week Ending October 24, 2014
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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'Ferguson October' Civil Disobedience Protests Target Police Violence in Communities of Color Nationwide; Report on Abuse of Adolescent Inmates in...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
A Century before Rosa Parks !
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: OCTOBER 2014
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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
Ferguson and Beyond: A Community Conversation
From: KWMU St. Louis
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NPR’s Michel Martin joins community leaders in Ferguson, Missouri for a conversation about race, law enforcement and more in the wake of the shooti...

Bought by WEKU, NPR Illinois, KWMR, MPR News Stations, WDSE and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:53:58
  • Purchases: 24
Measured by Mistakes: The Reality and Representation of Policing
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s program seeks to shine a light first on what’s been called the “militarization” of police across the country due to something like a fede...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 57:53
Episode 8: Can't Rock This Boat
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In March 1964, a 35-year-old African American woman named Johnnie Mae Chappell was walking along the side of the road in Jacksonville, Florida. Fou...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 10, 2014
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing on Eric Holder, Racism
From: Gus T Renegade
Series: The C.O.W.S.
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Author and Psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress Welsing dissects the controversy surrounding Attorney General Eric Holder's remarks on Racism. She commen...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 22:01
StoryCorps: J.T. Johnson and Al Lingo
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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J.T. Johnson and Al Lingo remember having acid thrown on them after jumping into a whites-only swimming pool in St. Augustine, Florida in June of 1...

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KMUD, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 4
Mickey Leland
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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One of the first African-Americans elected to the Texas Legislature.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Barbara Jordan
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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The first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress from the South.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Moyers & Company Show 320: Facing the Truth: The Case for Reparations
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
The case for reparations: journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates on the nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy -- this week on Moyers & Company.

Bought by KRDP, WCUW 91.3 FM, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KFOK-LPFM, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 24:00
  • Purchases: 33
African immigrants worry with elimination of Diversity Visa
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Last June, the U.S. Congress made a landmark decision to pass immigration reform. The new law eliminates the Diversity Immigrant Lottery Visa, also...

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 07:07
Wil Haygood on Conversations with Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Wil Haygood's story on the front page of The Washington Post in 2008 about the late Eugene Allen, a butler who served eight U. S. presidents from H...

  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 29:36
Harlem In Revolt - Part #3 (Malcolm X unedited interview)
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X (1964), Credit: Associate Press
Malcolm X 1963: The uncut interview.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:09:59
Harlem In Revolt - Part #2
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
This is the second hour of the documentary 'Harlem In Revolt.' It was made by a young writer called Austin Clarke and looked at the state of Harlem...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Harlem In Revolt - Part #1
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
A little more than fifty years ago, 1963, was a time of great upheaval in the United States. The fight for civil rights was in full force with peop...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Gilbert King reads from his Pulitzer-winner, Devil In The Grove: Thurgood Marshall, The Groveland Boys, and The Dawn of A New America (5/20)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Before becoming the first African American on The Supreme Court, Marshall risked his life in ...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
The Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People's Movement: The Struggle for Freedom and Transformation Continues
From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
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This radio documentary highlights the voices of nine men and women who have experienced the workings of the US criminal justice system from the ins...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KVMR, WVAS, KUNM, WORT and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
'To Heal A Sick Nation: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and IDEAS'
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1966, Credit: AFP/Getty Images
This program tells the untold story about Dr. Martin Luther King and his appearance on the most prestigious lecture series in Canada, shortly befor...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 49:57
  • Purchases: 1
David Simon: I'm A Storyteller
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: David Simon, Credit: American Library Association
In Treme, Simon explored New Orleans’ viability as an expression of its culture. After the 2005 levee failure, keeping New Orleans cuisine and musi...

Bought by Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 52:02
  • Purchases: 1
Stokely Carmichael and Black Power
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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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

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