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Soledad O’Brien on Rosa Parks: The Untold Story

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...

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

The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

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

The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later (Updated)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

The Uncomfortable Truth About Race in America

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

“The Uncomfortable Truth” is a film produced by Loki Mulholland. It is a journey to understand how being white has benefited his family across gene...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KMUN, KOWS, and RadioStPete Florida

The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America, Demo

From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America

The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more

Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the inf...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

Episode 120: The Tunnel

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

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

I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is ...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCMJ Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR

TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage

From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300

Caption: English: Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, oil on canvas painting by Agostino Brunias, ca. 1764-1796, Credit: Agostino Brunias / ArtDaily.org

There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in ...

'The Monster': Claiborne Avenue Before And After The Interstate

From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300

Caption: Image created for "The Seventh Ward Creoles of New Orleans," an Arts Council of New Orleans publication. View of elevated highway built on neutral ground of North Claiborne Avenue. At center, a man pulls a grocery cart, Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION

TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part two of its highway series. This is the story of the I-10 interstate bridge that sits above Claiborne A...

Bought by KALW

Episode 8: CSPD Black -- The True Story of Colorado Springs' First African American Detective

From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here

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

Some Thoughts On Mercy: An Essay on Race and Redemption, written and read by Ross Gay

From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow

In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP

Along Saint Claude

From: Eve Abrams

Caption: Eppy Livaccari, Credit: Jonathan Traviesa

Gentrification is just the newest name for the changes happening in New Orleans' neighborhoods downriver from the French Quarter. Along Saint Claud...

Bought by WCPN

State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

Caption: White students protest integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. , Credit: Photograph by Flip Schulke/CORBIS

Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...

Bought by WDDE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, WCMU Michigan, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more

Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...

Bought by WDDE, WAMU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio and more

The King of Love: A Short History of the Civil Rights Movement

From: Dred-Scott Keyes

An audio collage of the struggle for civil rights, focusing on the role of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Bought by Radio Catskill, Prairie Public, KVMR, Prairie Public, Prairie Public and more

An Imperfect Revolution: Voices from the Desegregation Era

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

The 1970s saw a tidal change in American race relations: for the first time, large numbers of white, black and other children of color began attend...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WUFT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WBHM, Troy Public Radio and more

Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Marshall had already earned a place in histor...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, WMUU-LP, WFAE, KALW and more

Say It Plain: A Century of African American Oratory

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

For generations, African American orators have been demanding justice and equality, reminding America to make good on its founding principles of de...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio, KLCC, WGTE Public Media and more

King's Last March

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

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

Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)

From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM