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Building Back Black Wall Street
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021
Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Born in Blackness
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard W. French
Most of us know very little about the history of the African American. Their contribution to our culture and society is rich and multilayered that...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cynical Extraction, Racial Liberalism, and Black Homeownership
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Starting with real estate reforms in the 1970s supposedly instituted to open a path to the American Dream for Black citizens, Keeanga-Yamahtta Tayl...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
New Pine Valley Restaurant
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Dr. Martin Luther King, I waited on him. He had ham and egg and hash browns.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 2
Front Porches of the Dead
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Welcome flags, monogrammed door mats, bird feeders, and whirly gigs. These are all things you might find on a front porch—or on a gravesite.

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WSGE, KRZA, WVAS and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Front Porches of the Dead
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Welcome flags, monogrammed door mats, bird feeders, and whirly gigs. These are all things you might find on a front porch—or on a gravesite.

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WTJU, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
An Absolute Massacre: The 1866 Riot At The Mechanics' Institute
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Riot in New Orleans... the Struggle for the Flag. 900 block Canal Street., Credit: The Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carre Digital Survey at The Historic New Orleans Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns to remember the 1866 massacre at the city’s Mechanics' Institute. It’s part of a series of episodes on the Recon...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:23
Episode 56: Don't Let Me See You In The Whirl
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Since 1938, a weekly African-American owned newspaper called The Evening Whirl has covered crime in St. Louis with a style all its own, using allit...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 16:14
Redevelopment on Oretha Castle Haley is Slow but Steady
From: Nina Feldman
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Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in Central City has recently seen a lot of redevelopment. Why has it been so hard to bring business back to this bou...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:10
Madam CJ Walker: An African American Self-Made Millionaire
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Alelia Bundles on her great-great grandmothers transformation into an entrepreneur and social activist-...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 1
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Secret Advisor
From: WNYC
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The names of many of Reverend Martin Luther King Junior’s associates are well known: Harry Belafonte, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young. But one of his m...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KLCC, Prairie Public, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 28
African-American landmark turns 100, needs help
From: Jeanne Bonner
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The Herndon Home is facing financial uncertainty just as it's celebrating its centennial year. The imposing two-story brick mansion sits largely un...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
There used to be businesses in South Rome
From: LA Lands
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This piece focuses on memories of businesses located in the historically black neighborhood of South Rome (Rome, Floyd County, Georgia), a communit...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2007
  • Length: 02:35