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Building Bridges: "Justice for Trayvon" - Thousands Continue to Rally
From: ken nash
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** Thousands Continue to Rally for “Justice for Trayvon”

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 27:59
Makalah's Trayvon Martin Piece
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
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Check out Makalah's piece about the Trayvon Martin vigil she attended last week. She talks about her experience and asks citizens about their view ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:52
Yamaan interviews his dad about jail
From: Jesse Chanin
Series: My Choice My Voice
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My Choice My Voice teen Yamaan interviews his father about his time in jail and how he turned that all around to become a successful college student.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:01
Prison Sentencing Disparities
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: My Mic is Hot with Michael Eric Dyson
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In this commentary, Dyson explores the reasons behind the disparity in prison sentencing between black and white men for the same crimes, and why i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
What's Past is Present
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Focus Point with Avis Jones-DeWeever
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When the Supreme Court struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the majority did so with an eye toward the past and a distinctly blurred vie...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
James visits a women's prison
From: Jesse Chanin
Series: My Choice My Voice
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My Choice My Voice teen describes his high school visit to a women's prison in Louisiana.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
Moments of the Movement -- Joseph Lowery
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement
Caption: Joseph Lowery
Rev. Joseph E. Lowery discusses New York Times v. Sullivan, the case in which he was a defendant along with Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, an...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WVAS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 8
Moments of the Movement - Cecil Williams
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement
Caption: Cecil J. Williams
Orangeburg, S.C., native Cecil J. Williams began taking pictures of the nascent Civil Rights Movement in his home town at the young age of 15, and ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUNM, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WVAS and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 9
The Dream Before the Dream: Detroit, 1963
From: Zak Rosen
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On June 23, 1963, labor and church leaders organized tens of thousands of people in Detroit for the Great March to Freedom. Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 3
Welcome to the Big Leagues
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh unpacks the saga of the Contract Buyers League, a local activist group in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood that organized in the 1...

Bought by PRX Remix and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 2
Black Immigration
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Focus Point with Avis Jones-DeWeever
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Avis Jones-DeWeever speaks with Julian Kiganda, president of African Diaspora for Change, about the often-missing Black voice in the immigration de...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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BackStory producers Eric Mennel and Nell Boeschenstein visit Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia to tell the story of a monument in honor of Heyward Shep...

Bought by WABE and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 10:49
  • Purchases: 2
“Framed, Captured and Gagged: State Repression of Black Radicals in the 1960's”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
Slavery ended 140 years ago... by Malcolm London
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Malcolm London, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Malcolm London, 19, participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third time this year. One of Chicago's most remarkable writers, Malcolm masterf...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 3
Adore Your Innocence - I don't know this but I live this by Tanya Smith
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Tanya Smith, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Tanya Smith, 18, is a member of the Kuumba Lynx poetry team and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this year. Her piece "A...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Heavenly Sin by Destiny McClendon
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Destiny McClendon, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Destiny McClendon, 17, is a senior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time t...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
The Outfit by Mariah Starks
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Mariah Starks, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Mariah Starks, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. Her piece, "The...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
Segregation Now, Segregation Forever: The Infamous Words of George Wallace
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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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


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 2
Strange Fruit: Voices of a Lynching
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:35
  • Purchases: 6
WorldCanvass: The Rupture of Civil War
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Historical perspective on the Civil War and its effect on average Americans.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:51:07
Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
From: NPR Illinois
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A one-hour program drawn from the 10th Annual Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series, including a discussion of the events leading up to President Lincoln's...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: James Clyburn and Syndey Reed
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: James Clyburn and Sydney Reed
South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn talks with his granddaughter Sydney Reed about his career in politics.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
Breaking the Psychological Chains of Slavery (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Breaking the chains of slavery, Credit: empirical_perception
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Racial Justice Report Card
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
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jim justice speaks with Gerald Hankerson and Teresa Clark of Washington Community Action Network (CAN!), Clint Weckerly of SeaMar, and Rev. Josefin...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 27:59
The Republican Party has reached its peak in the South
From: With Good Reason
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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

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