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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
Spare the Kids, Dr. Stacey Patton
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Dr. Stacey Patton
We speak with author Dr. Stacey Patton about her book, Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Won't Save Black America. The book examines the unique cultural...

Bought by WVAS and WFHB


  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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 (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly 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 WCNY, KICI Iowa City, WCSU-FM, WGZS, KEDT and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 13
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
The Untold Story of St. Cloud's 6th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast and Day of Service
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In the first Untold Story of Central Minnesota of 2019, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits with Professor Deborah Leigh about th...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:35
Michael Eric Dyson on Trump, Truth, and Race
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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America’s unwillingness to assess the ugly truth about systemic inequality has created a perpetual sinkhole of denial. A reality that existed long ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Justice Is About Everything We Do
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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However you put it, food is as political as it gets. Today, we'll hear from farmers, organizers, workers, and seed-keepers who all attended the NES...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Making the Decision to Fight (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-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


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 12
Social Mobility Through College (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Scott Jaschik, editor of "Inside Higher Ed", says social mobility has stalled and we should expand access to those universities admitting the larg...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WSGE, WLPR , WYAP and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 11
Pilgrimage (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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 WCNY, WDSE, WCSU-FM, KWTF community radio for Sonoma County, WTJU and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
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
Daryl Davis - A Question About Racism - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with Daryl Davis, author of Klan-destine Relationships - A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Kl...

Bought by KRZA and KVSC


  • Added: Feb 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 2
Daryl Davis - A Question About Racism - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with Daryl Davis, author of Klan-destine Relationships - A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Kl...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
Life of the Law #114: Inside San Quentin - To Be Heard
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Troy Williams and scholars Rebecca McClennan, Keramet Reiter, Ashley Rubin, and Heather Thompson drove about an hour away to San Quentin State Pris...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 48:26
Life of the Law #112: In Studio: Playing Games
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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What does it take to win an NBA Championship? On Monday night, June 12th, Oakland's Golden State Warriors, aka "Dub Nation" silenced the Cleveland ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2017
  • Length: 44:31
Degrees of Separation: Higher Ed (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Stories of massive student debt and for-profit school scams make it clear that the post-secondary system can be an unfriendly place to many disadva...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1