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Imani Perry: The Future of Democracy Depends on the South
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Ep. 33: James Garrett Jr. on Why Black Architecture Matters
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: James Garret Jr., Credit: 4RM+ULA
James Garrett Jr. is an architect at 4RM+ULA architects. His family has deep ties to St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. During his childhood, James fel...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 19:20
Baldwin's Lessons for the US
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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James Baldwin was one of the 20th century’s most incisive thinkers and writers. In our own era, as political rhetoric, state violence, and popular ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Conflicting Ideals in Jefferson’s Architecture (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wom...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, Morehead State Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, Vermont Public, WHYY and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 15
The Conflicting Ideals in Jefferson’s Architecture (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wome...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WLIW, KMUN, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
A Fiery Unrest: Why Plymouth Avenue Burned
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Silver's Grocery on Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis in 1967., Credit: Minneapolis Star & Tribune Negatives, July 1, 1967-August 31, 1967: Box 263. Minneapolis and St Paul Newspaper Negatives Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.
During the summer of 1967, Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis went up in flames. This was during a period known as the Long, Hot Summer when frus...

Bought by KVSC and MPR News Stations


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 2
American Terrorism (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina. The killings still reverberates i...

Bought by WNCU, KWMU St. Louis, WMMT, WCNY, WGTE Public Media and more


  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 19
American Terrorism (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina. The killings still reverberates i...

Bought by KRZA, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 12
Unfreedom (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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- Children who interact in some way with the justice system—even if it’s just living near a justice system facility—have worse health and education...

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


  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
1619: Past and Present (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- Over 400 years ago, in 1619, the first Africans arrived in English-speaking North America. Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should comme...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
1619: Past and Present (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Over 400 years ago, in 1619, the first Africans arrived in English-speaking North America. Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should commem...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WJCT, KRDP, WUGA (part of GPB), KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
Pilgrimage to Montgomery (52 minutes)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-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 WGTE Public Media, Morehead State Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 51:48
  • Purchases: 4
Pilgrimage to Montgomery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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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 s...

Bought by KVSC, WVAS, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
1619: Past and Present
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-- Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should commemorate 1619 and what’s at stake when we ignore it. -- Richard Chew explains how a British ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGTE Public Media, WRKF, WCSU-FM, and KWTF community radio for Sonoma County


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 51:23
  • Purchases: 5
Invisible Founders (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. -Justin Reid tell...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WGTE Public Media, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRKF, Morehead State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 53:45
  • Purchases: 12
Invisible Founders (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. They were there to ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Morehead State Public Radio, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
Invisible Founders (28:50)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-Justin Reid tells the story of how he set out to find the plantation where his great-great grandfather was enslaved, and what he found there. -Hi...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KMUD, and KKRN


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Heroes of American Dissent (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-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 WJCT, KRZA, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
Voices of Vietnam: Fighting on Two Fronts (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-African Americans who fought for their country in Vietnam often experienced in the ranks the racism their families endured back home. While white...

Bought by WVAS, KMUN, KRDP, WJCU, and WFHB


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Invisible Founders (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. Justin Reid tell...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 11
Invisible Founders (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. Justin Reid tell...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUN, WVAS, KRZA and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Stamped offers a deeply researched, provocative narrative that is a comprehensive history of anti-Black racist ideas—their origins, and how they be...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Saladin Ambar, author of "Malcolm X at Union Station"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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As we mark Black History Month, host Bob Kustra talks with Saladin Ambar about a pivotal speech Malcolm X gave near the end of his life.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
Episode 8: CSPD Black -- The True Story of Colorado Springs' First African American Detective
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 45:08
  • Purchases: 1
King's Last March
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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Although it was one of the most challenging and controversial chapters of his career, the final year of King's life has not been the focus of signi...

Bought by KANW, KUAT, WABE, WWNO, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 249