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Debate: Coleman Hughes and Jamelle Bouie on Color Blindness for Black History Month

From: Open to Debate

During Black History Month, we reflect on a debate that confronts America’s complex history with racial and social inequality. How can we ensure fa...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

February became Black History Month in 1976. It was about time.

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

February is Black History Month, officially recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976. It was about time. The 1960s had seen crucial economic gai...

Echoes of a Coup

From: Scene on Radio

One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, WYPR, WFDD and more

The Lost Cause — the Civil War, then and now

From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials

Are we still living with the racial divide left over from the Civil War? This provocative audio documentary explores the history of a conflict that...

Bought by WHYY, KUNM, Maine Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WLPR and more

Civics 101: The True Story Of Reconstruction

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.

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...

10-11: From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like?, 2/22/2023

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descenda...

731: Empathy For Monsters / 732: Growing Justice, 10/8/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Empathy For Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...

Expanding the Franchise (hour/no bb)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more

Expanding the Franchise (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by WTJU, KUHF, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WRGY and more

Expanding the Franchise (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, KRDP and more

Expanding the Franchise (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUHF, and WNMU-FM

World in Progress 06/16/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: The remnants of slavery - June 19th or Juneteenth is the day where the US commemorates the end of slavery. Dealing with...

Bought by WVTF and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

Disposable Cities: Part 4 of The State Made Visible

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: An abandoned home near Love Canal in Niagara Falls. (UPI Photo)

This is part 4 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and The Production of Violence published by Routled...

Bought by RADIOLEX

Last Witness: The Kerner Commission

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness

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

Liberty & Justice For Some: Two Centuries of Independent Black Leaders & Political Movements

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

Here’s a seemingly inexplicable historical event: How did the anti-slavery Republican party take the White House in 1861, only six years after its ...

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

In today’s FULL and EXTENDED Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends the Stearns History Museum’s...

The Untold Story of Dr. Annette Atkins' Missing Pieces at the Stearns History Museum Breakfast Club

From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends the Stearns History Museum’s Breakfast Club pr...

The Mint 400

From: Black Mountain Radio

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...

MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette

On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU

No Common Ground

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...

Bought by KCBX

Even When You’re Right, You’re Wrong

From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line

In this episode, we share information about the recent disturbances in St. Louis. Afterwards, we have the second part of a conversation with Balago...

Harsh Debts

From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line

Up first, we have a comprehensive overview of prisoner protests compiled by Perilous Chronicle, who are collecting information about the many priso...

The Struggle for the Eurma C Hayes, Part Two

From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line

Our show this week returns with the second part of a conversation between Kite Line’s Micol Seigel and three members of the Carbondale, Illinois co...

Mr. Trotter, the President, and the Klan

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Our show is about William Monroe Trotter, owner and editor of the Boston Guardian from 1901 to 1934, and a radical race-first political agitator. K...

Bought by RADIOLEX

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