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A Monumental Change, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: State Senator Jennifer McClellan, Credit: Charles McGuigan
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 26:48
The Big Ponder #38: Cartoons
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Have you ever heard of the cartoonist Oliver Harrington? Probably not, but the artist played an instrumental role in German-American history. From ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
198: Mary McLeod Bethune
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves and a founder of Bethune-Cookman University. She was often the only woman of color with a sea...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: The Freedom of Choice
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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On this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, we tell the story of Chuck Ealey's long and winding road to the College Football Hall. Especially long ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 07, 2022
  • Length: 06:40
  • 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
The Mint 400
From: Black Mountain Radio
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In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:17
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
Rescuing the Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Cover of Economy Hall
Join us as author Fatima Shaik uncovers the hidden history of a free Black brotherhood that was almost lost forever.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 24:52
Experiencing the fight for freedom along the U.S. Civil Rights Trail
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Kelly Ingram Park, Credit: Courtesy Pixabay
Join World Footprints as we explore the story of Black Americans’ fight for freedom and equality with U.S. Civil Rights Trail guide author Deborah ...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 30:54
  • Purchases: 1
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
Revisiting the Little Rock Nine experience with Ernest Green
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Little Rock Memorial , Credit: Steve Snodgrass under CreativeCommons license 2.0
This episode focuses on the social impact of Ernest Green’s life journey—a different type of travel experience--and his role in the civil rights mo...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 37:07
The Uncomfortable Truth About Race in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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“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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 50:07
  • Purchases: 5
A Monumental Change Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Rose Simmons
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 27:51
The Ranger's Life
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What does it mean to be a ranger? It means you are married to the mission, a soldier for your planetary home, armed with a moral compass and a Smok...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Exploring the Green Book trail and Rochester’s African-American Heritage
From: World Footprints LLC
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World Footprints will uncover the stories behind the story of the Green Book and we’ll explore Rochester, New York’s rich African-American heritage .

  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 37:09
Blocks and Brownstones
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedmad
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 26:22
  • Purchases: 1
Our Garbage, Ourselves
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 20:50
  • Purchases: 1
Uncivil War on Richmond's Monument Avenue
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Protesters and counter protesters, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 26:39
Inside North Carolina's Outer Banks
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Pea Island marker., Credit: Photo by Tonya Fitzpatrick
North Carolina’s Outer Banks offers everything from open-sea beaches, theatre, wildlife preserves and popular shipwreck diving sites to down home c...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:55
Making Obama: Part 2
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 6
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Freedom" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: 150 years ago, two girls crossed the Missouri River trying to escape a life of slaver...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
“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
Recalling Past Struggles
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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his week is the first part of our interview with Mark Cook. Mark served 24 years in prison for his participation in a bank robbery and jail break a...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 30:00