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Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York whose life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transform...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
The band is finally back together! After a year and a half of hating each other, friends Rob Piccirillo "Bobby Pickles", David Bader "Mr. Badey" an...
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 01:00:00
The final piece in a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 06:00
- 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
Radio Curious visits with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration...
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 29:02
This moving and provocative documentary chronicles the historic journey of the “U.S./Mexico Caravan for Peace,” which from August 12th to Septembe...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WDSE
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
"The 47% Mix" with Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Ethel Waters, Ry Cooder, Menomena, The Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby, Alan Price, a...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 19:31
- Purchases: 1
In this conversation, Juanita Brown wanted to go beyond the hype that President Obama's election marked "the end of history" in American race relat...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 38:28
On a recent visit to Wisconsin, Maya Soetoro-Ng explains why her brother is America's first feminist president.
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 02:03
This second installment in the series titled Bringing Down the New Jim Crow features the first ever dialog between legal scholar Michelle Alexander...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM, and WDSE
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
The United States imprisons more people than any other country. In California a new policy called ‘realignment’ aims to reduce the number of peopl...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Raleigh Terrell a machine operator at US Sugar is joined by Dr. Myron Glick as he compares the cost of going to the doctor against the even greater...
- Added: Jun 17, 2012
- Length: 06:00
The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 20:25
- Purchases: 3
The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.
- Added: Apr 29, 2012
- Length: 01:00:13
The Cutting Edge looks at the life of the Emmy award-winning journalist, Gil Noble- considered as America's best known and most influential African...
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 01:00:11
Award-winning producer, Dred-Scott Keyes takes us through an audio journey of the events and issues which led to the death of Trayvon Martin, the 1...
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 58:30
What Black People Say to Racist Republicans is a team piece performed by the poets of TEAM Englewood Community Academy High School Slam Poetry Team...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:55
Poet Malcolm London, 18, is a 2011 graduate of Lincoln Park High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third year, this time as par...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:44
The War on Drugs has made America the world's leading jailer. Increasingly, the casualties of the drug war are speaking out.
- Added: Mar 11, 2012
- Length: 12:39
Radio Curious brings you an archived interview with Maria Stewart, as portrayed by scholar, Sandra Kamusakiri. Stewart was a free black woman who l...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 29:02
This documentary views Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" through the lens of California's ma...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, and WZEN.org
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Back in January, radio talk show host and political activist, Joe Madison, helped us launch our 2012 season of Bring It On! Mr. Madison was the pas...
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 37:03
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
Wisconsin's most committed Obama 2012 organizers headed to Madison this weekend for eight hours of training on everything from building a neighborh...
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 03:37
