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Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:53
Episode 1 - Help This Garden Grow
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:27
HPM BHM 2024 Vignettes
From: KUHF
Series: Black History Month One-minute Vignettes
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Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 13:00
Florence Price
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: Conversations in African American Music
Caption: Florence Price, Credit: Public Domain
Dr. Louise Toppin examines the life and music of trailblazing composer Florence Price.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Calamity in Philadelphia
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 40:50
Origin Stories
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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How race was invented to support racism.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 33:44
Heritage Scraps from Heritage Hands: African-American Vintage Quilts
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
God's Little Acre: Revealing underrepresented stories of America's African heritage, Part 2
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: God's Little Acre
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Join World Footprints as we uncover the hidden stories of this important piece of Newport's and America’s past from God's Little Acre.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 39:27
God’s Little Acre: America’s Colonial African Cemetery preserving history in stone – Part 1
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: God's Little Acre
Caption: Arthur Flagg and family markers, Credit: Photo: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Tonya and Ian Fitzpatrick walk through the grounds of God's Little Acre--the oldest and largest colonial African burial ground, and they share unde...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:36
Soundtrack to the Struggle Season 1
From: KCCK
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How jazz influenced the fight for racial equity.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNCU, WUTC, and Morton College Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:39:38
  • Purchases: 5
EP5: Volker's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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How does a society create meaningful places of encounter? Spaces where you just can't look away from the past?

Bought by KUHF, WHRV, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS, WMRA and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 6
EP4: Mallory's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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Once we accept culpability for a sinful past, what does accountability look like? Even generations after?

Bought by KUHF, WHRV, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS, WMRA and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 6
EP3: Charlotte's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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When Charlotte was a teenager she asked her mother a question: was my grandfather a Nazi? It began a years-long quest to learn more about what her ...

Bought by KUHF, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WHRV and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 8
EP2: Haley's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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Why would someone return to a place of unspeakable trauma and what does it take for them to feel welcomed?

Bought by KUHF, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 8
EP1: The Two Reconstructions
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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We start with three generations of German women, and go back in time from there. Through defeat, occupation, and rebuilding. How did two reconstruc...

Bought by KUHF, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, WCQS and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 8
Ebony Classics - Welcoming Spring
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
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"Welcoming Spring" is a classical music program featuring vocal classical music, piano classical music, and symphony orchestra music by musicians, ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:45
  • Purchases: 1
Ebony Classics - A Musical Movement
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
Caption: Francis Johnson 1792 - 1844, Credit: University Archives University of Pennsylvania
"Ebony Classics - A Musical Movement," is a chapter in the important history of people of African descent in classical music. This segment include...

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 55:19
  • Purchases: 1
Women on the Waterfront
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...

Bought by KVNF and KCNP


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Songs for the Struggle-Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement (episode 2)
From: Daniel Polletta
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Longtime WCPN Cleveland/ideastream jazz programmer Dan Polletta has created "Songs for the Struggle- Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement." This is ...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, KBEM, Wyoming Public Radio, WCPN, WDCB and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:25
  • Purchases: 6
White Privilege: A Courageous Conversation with Curtis Linton
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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When it comes to racism, many white Americans can intellectualize it and some can personalize it through the experience of others but the real chan...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:05
The Lynching of Emmett Till - An Interview with Devery Anderson
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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His lynching was said to have propelled the Civil Rights Movement but what really happened to the 14 year old boy from Chicago and what can we lear...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:47:41
White Rage - A Conversation with Carol Anderson
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Her book is back on the NYT Best Seller list and for a very good reason. “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” as been called both ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 02:17:15
Talking About Race and Racism
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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How should we talk about race and racism in America when the divide between Black and white can be so vast?

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:08:18
Who Should Own the Narrative
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Who should own the narrative when it comes to talking about slavery and Jim Crow? Lance Wheeler, is the former Curator of Exhibition & Interpreters...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 53:24
The N-Word
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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The n-word is loaded with a history of hate and death. Today, the word's meaning has transformed but the echoes of its past remain. Who's word is i...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:33:06