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Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...
Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed i...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 01:03:54
A racial justice book group confronts the reality of racism on Cape Cod.
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 04:32
400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about a...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUT...
Bought by KALW, WVAS, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: May 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
A suspicious fire and a white power symbol at a legendary leadership school in the U.S. South. And a brutal backlash to a women's rights march in ...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: May 02, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Segregation in Education is as bad as ever, and no end appears to be in sight. So what approaches might make a difference. What if Segregation, per...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Apr 25, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key i...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Apr 04, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Trump Effort to Dismantle Obamacare Underscores Need for Medicare for All...
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay , Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for p...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 06:02
Today’s program begins with the institutional role of Indiana University's Black Film Center/Archive within a school where the black student popul...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 59:01
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Congress Urged to Open Hearings on Rise of Racist Hate Groups Coinciding w...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Feb 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
Michelle Alexander, Mark Lamont Hill and Vonya Quarles discuss the modern prison abolition movement, what's changed in the past ten years, and the ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 14:55
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
Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...
Bought by WWNO
- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We meet Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford—known for connecting art with the real world—when he represents the United States in the 57th Venice...
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 09:01
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 58:31
This is the special 90-minute finale for our series A Targeted Divide. It’s called “What Bullets do to Bodies and Lives: Structural Violence, Firea...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WLPR
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 01:28:38
- Purchases: 2
Pay no attention to what the media says about how undermined Jeff Sessions is. POTUS may bait him publicly via tweet, but in private, at the DOJ, S...
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 03:00
Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...
Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: May 05, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Celebrating Influential African American Albums From The Civil Rights Era To Present- Day
- Added: Apr 21, 2018
- Length: 01:07:12
