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Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WJCU
- Added: Jun 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Award-winning poet Geffrey Davis discusses his collection, "Night Angler." He also reads several poems from the collection.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 30, 2020
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
Cornelius Eady reenacts a scene of racial discrimination from the film A Raisin in the Sun.
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
WFHB Blue Monday DJ and Blues guitarist Jason Fickel discusses Zora Neale Hurston with IU professor M. Cooper Harriss. The two look at the work of ...
Bought by WJAB
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 58:51
- Purchases: 1
In honor of Independence Day, a former radio DJ joins us to play a selection of patriotic songs sung by African Americans. (And more...)
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 11
This stirring hour show of American music and literature begins with
patriotic musical performances by the likes of Marian Anderson, Paul
Robeson, ...
Bought by WVTF, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KHNS, WUTC, WVTF and more
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 38
The Cutting Edge presents Mary Helen Washington, author of “ The Other Blacklist” which shows how the government targeted African- American as wel...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:02:17
This Poetry Month: We celebrate the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, wo...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 7
This Poetry Month, we honor the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanho...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 6
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
Tonight’s show, Shadows are Black: Slavery’s Long Setting, features a discussion on the text and context of Herman Melville’s 1855 novella “Benito ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 57:12
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
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 28:17
- Purchases: 1
This show features the work of younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
