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Historians said the renamings – like the removal of many Confederate statues in recent years – are part of a more accurate understanding of the Con...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Texas Public Radio, KRPS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 9
Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television.
This piece was produced ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
From: When We Fight, We Win!
The continued closures of our public schools and high-stakes testing illustrate the institutionalized racism embedded in our educational system. Ji...
- Added: Aug 02, 2020
- Length: 58:23
Season 2, Episode 2
Part 2 of The Myth Justice is Blind to Money looks at one prior attempt to get rid of money bail, and how this attempt was thw...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 10:05
- Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 1
Louisiana, unlike many of its Deep South neighbors, restores voting rights to citizens with felony convictions after they have...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 1
Topics include her entry into politics, racism, the various factions of the Deep State, 9/11, COINTELPRO, media propaganda, Hollywood, the Israel l...
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 58:01
From: John Shuck
A "Bottom-Up" history of the U.S. from an African-American and Latinx viewpoint.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WJAB
- Added: Jun 04, 2018
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 2
"What we don’t know is what happened in the 18 seconds that the police officer that was in the hallway. He ended up shooting my son seven times in ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 36:29
One of my most popular shows of 2017. Originally produced in April 2017.
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
How are algorithms and data science making their way into the American criminal justice system?
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 32:20
Harvard Professor, Caroline Light, explores the racist "Stand Your Ground" history.
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 2
A torchlit Confederate protest in Charlottesville, Virginia had some residents recalling the days of the KKK. But one Virginia scholar says today’s...
Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 2
The family of 17 year-old Quanice Hayes, who was shot to death by Portland police, seeks justice from the city of Portland.
- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
Pamela Spoto, educator and Peace and Justice advocate, co-hosts again. Our guest is Kevin Alexander Gray. He is is a civil rights organizer and a...
Bought by KMUD
- Added: May 30, 2016
- Length: 59:13
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 48:30
- Purchases: 1
Voices from the epicenter of unrest in Baltimore
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 13, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 3
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
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...
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 04:55
Kwame Ture, once known as Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinadad, later moving to the United States at the age of eleven. He would become a lead...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00:35
- Purchases: 1
This program tells the untold story about Dr. Martin Luther King and his appearance on the most prestigious lecture series in Canada, shortly befor...
Bought by WXXI Rochester
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 49:57
- Purchases: 1
California has been in an ongoing struggle trying to figure out how to deal with overcrowding in prisons. The problems extend to the Division of Ju...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 07:19
Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:28
This special edition of "The Cutting Edge", looks at the trial, resistance and execution of Troy Davis, who was convicted of the killing of an off-...
- Added: Sep 29, 2011
- Length: 56:30
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
In Pointe-a-la-Hache, Louisiana, the oyster harvest feeds widows, sustains relationships, and keeps the rural economy humming. But the BP oil spill...
Bought by KUT and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 2
A story about how those thick Plexiglas walls come down in an Oakland, California neighborhood as more white folks move in.
- Added: May 08, 2010
- Length: 07:00
