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The Fire Next Time
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Fall 2020
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My name is Shawn Hughes. I wrote this piece consciously, recapping one of my most important moments of the year. In the midst of two pandemics, eve...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 06:54
RDD: Great Black Swamp Frogs
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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We're headed to the ball game on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, however this team may look a lil different than your traditional baseball...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 06:02
RDD: The Ohio Theatre
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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We're taking a tour of The Ohio Theatre on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. Built in 1921, it is Toledo’s last operating neighborhood theat...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:19
RDD: RDD at the 577
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Founded by Virginia Secor Stranahan, The 577 Foundation is dedicated to preserving the integrity of the historic property at 577 East Front Street ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 2
LIVING IN AN AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMP
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 4
POLICING THE NATION’S CAPITAL
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 15:30
  • Purchases: 2
“Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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The Cutting Edge presents Angela J. Davis talking about her book “Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment”, in which she exp...

Bought by KMSU and KISA Digital Studios


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:03
  • Purchases: 2
HumaNature: One Hour Special #5: Freedom Stories
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: journeys to freedom, on two legs…and four. Ten years ago, more than 50 pit bulls were discovered...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New Hampshire Public Radio, KUT, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 4
Lizzie Webb Guptill-Linda Pupke
From: Kara Morgan
Series: Voices of Spanish Point
Caption: Lizzie Webb Guptill
Lizzie Webb Guptill as written and presented by Linda Pupke

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:39
RDD: Advice with Marcy Kaptur
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week The Rough Draft Diaries chats with Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:48
RDD: A Man And His Bass (part 2)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley gets acquainted with one of Toledo's Jazz Icons, Clifford Murphy. Clifford is known for playing i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 1
"Fire Fight: The Struggle To Integrate NYC's Fire Department"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In NYC, African-Americans make up nearly 26% of the population but make up less than 4% of the NYC Fire Department. For the past 150 years, the cit...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:01
George Fletcher at the 1911 Pendleton Roundup
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The true story of American Black cowboy, George Fletcher and Indian cowboy, Jackson Sundown, at the 1911 Pendleton Roundup.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
"Slavery's Exiles: The Story of American Maroons"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN THIS EDITION OF THE CUTTING EDGE, WE BRING YOU A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HISTORIAN ERIC FONER AND SYLVIAN DIOUF, AUTHOR OF “SLAVERY’S EXILES: THE STORY...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:56
Notes from No Man's Land
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
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Essayist Ula Biss, author of Notes from No Man's Land, offers candid reflections on the role of race in her own life and in American history.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
"Framed, Captured and Gagged: State Repression of Black Radicals in the 1960's”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In this second part of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Perfo...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:59
The 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In this first of a two-part series, Dred-Scott Keyes interviews winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Awards David W. Blight, author of "American Ora...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2012
  • Length: 56:00
A Story from the Bar
From: Andy Otto
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A search for the Ward 8, Boston's most famous cocktail, leads to an authentic encounter with an old man at the bar. Sometimes it's the stories that...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 07:35
The King of Love: A Short History of the Civil Rights Movement
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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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


  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:30:13
  • Purchases: 10
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
Building Bridges Documentary
From: KGSM
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Genocide: How Will History Judge Us?

  • Added: May 28, 2008
  • Length: 28:39