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In Buffalo with India Walton: An Insurgent Candidate Runs for Mayor

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman—...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KDNK, and KMUN

70 Million: The Work of Closing a Notorious Jail

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Inex Bordeaux holds up a sign while doing street outreach in north St. Louis to raise awareness about the Close the Workhouse campaign., Credit: Carolina Hidalgo

Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

50 Years Later: Remembering Fred Hampton

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...

Panther Cubs

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

We don'y just plant the seeds so we can eat the fruit. We plant the seeds so the fruit will be there for generations.

Bought by PRX Remix

The Port Chicago Sailors: Separate and Unequal

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)

Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC

Why is Deerfield (Still) So White?

From: Amy Roost

Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018

A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

Marching for Their Lives without Thoughts and Prayers

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Darian Wyatt., Credit: Charles McGuigan

At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC

Remembering St. Augustine Florida’s Civil Rights Struggle

From: Dina Weinstein

Caption: St. Augustine, FL Police jump into a wade in

In 1964, Congress had a noteworthy Civil Rights Bill before it. But Southern Democrats, supporters of Jim Crow laws, were pushing a filibuster to k...

Harlem In Revolt - Part #3 (Malcolm X unedited interview)

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)

Caption: Malcolm X (1964), Credit: Associate Press

Malcolm X 1963: The uncut interview.

Harlem In Revolt - Part #2

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)

This is the second hour of the documentary 'Harlem In Revolt.' It was made by a young writer called Austin Clarke and looked at the state of Harlem...

Bought by KQED

Harlem In Revolt - Part #1

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)

A little more than fifty years ago, 1963, was a time of great upheaval in the United States. The fight for civil rights was in full force with peop...

Bought by KQED

Gilbert King reads from his Pulitzer-winner, Devil In The Grove: Thurgood Marshall, The Groveland Boys, and The Dawn of A New America (5/20)

From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014

100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Before becoming the first African American on The Supreme Court, Marshall risked his life in ...

Bought by WEZU

Segregation Now, Segregation Forever: The Infamous Words of George Wallace

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix

Strange Fruit: Voices of a Lynching

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.

Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more

A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana, and the New Jim Crow

From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow

This documentary views Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" through the lens of California's ma...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, and WZEN.org