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Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
EP179 Memphis Minnie
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Tribute to one of Blues music's great contributors, Memphis Minnie.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 58:54
Episode 37: What Gets Told
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 26:16
The EXTENDED Untold Story of Dr. Annette Atkins' Missing Pieces at the Stearns History Museum Breakfast Club
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s FULL and EXTENDED Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends the Stearns History Museum’s...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:13:08
The Untold Story of Dr. Annette Atkins' Missing Pieces at the Stearns History Museum Breakfast Club
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends the Stearns History Museum’s Breakfast Club pr...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
EP175 Hip Linkchain
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Hip Linkchain/Lankchan was a first rate Chicago Blues musician whom is due recognition for his part in the American Blue scene.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 56:58
  • Purchases: 1
Jason Berry: Sleuth
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Jason Berry
Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker Jason Berry joins Gwen with fascinating stories and characters populating New Orleans’ cultural and mu...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
George Floyd: A Year Later
From: Ampers
Series: Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice
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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd took his last labored breaths, while Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck. What happened that n...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: May 22, 2021
  • Length: 22:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black Cowboys
From: Black Mountain Radio
Series: Black Mountain Radio
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Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:06
Even When You’re Right, You’re Wrong
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In this episode, we share information about the recent disturbances in St. Louis. Afterwards, we have the second part of a conversation with Balago...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Harsh Debts
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Up first, we have a comprehensive overview of prisoner protests compiled by Perilous Chronicle, who are collecting information about the many priso...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Episode 158: "If it ever happens, run."
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 33:08
Shut Up And Listen
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Vaccine Hesitant
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How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history? Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...

Bought by WFHB and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Franklin, Tennessee’s Fuller Story: History beyond the Battlefield and Whiskey
From: World Footprints LLC
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Hear about the initiative Franklin, Tennessee has launched to preserve and share a fuller and accurate truth about its place in American history.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 32:22
EP172 Lowell Fulson
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Lowell Fulson was a blues icon with a great history and is still an influence today to many blues musicians.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:47
Land for New Farmers
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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There's a lot of farmland about to change hands. We can make sure it's distributed fairly to good stewards.

Bought by WFHB, KRZA, WYAP, and WFHB


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
EP171 Nora Jean Wallace
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Newest release from a Blues veteran, Nora Jean Wallace, who has been missing in action for the past 16 years.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:59
EP170 Pee Wee Crayton
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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The first electric Blues artist to use a Fender Stratocaster given to him by Leo Fender himself.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Harriet Tubman, Global Warming, Library Fines
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Harriet Tubman; Topic 2 - Global Warming; Topic 3 - Library Fines

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 51:42
  • Purchases: 6
EP168 Blues in the Mississippi Night by Alan Lomax
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Recorded at Decca Studios late one night into the early morning hours in 1947, three Chicago musicians reminisced their former times in early 20th ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:52:28
Hour Four: "A Woman's Touch" and "In Control"
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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Women -- both on and off the air -- have had substantial roles in the development and power of Black radio, including African American station owne...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WCQS and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 70
Hour Three: "Rappers & Rhymers" and "Sounding Black"
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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From the 1940s onward, legendary Black deejays created unique, ear-catching styles.

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 71
Hour One: "In the Beginning" and "Pride & Enlightenment"
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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The series opens by traveling to the 1920s to hear how Black Americans fought for space on radio airwaves. Then, we hear about programs in the 1940...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 79
Episode 26: The Kinseys
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 31:58
Attica as a Moment of Abolitionist Imagination
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Last week marked the 49th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. In this episode of Kite Line, we finish our conversation with Dr. Orisanmi Bu...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00

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