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Author Robert Hicks and a Civil War cemetery
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Caption: McGavock Confederate Cemetery, Credit: Gene Korte
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
  • 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
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
Obama 2012: The Lesser Evil?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Barack Obama’s first term has been a disappointment for many, and leaves open the question for those with a progressive agenda—is voting for Obama ...

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Moyers & Company Show 114: An Optimist for Our Times
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
Angela Blackwell has spent her adult life advocating practical ways to fulfill America’s promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” f...

Bought by WMNF, KBRP Community Radio, WPSU, WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 17
The Drug War's Casualties Speak Out
From: Jonah Engle
Caption: Dorsey Nunn addresses a rally to end the War on Drugs. MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, November 3, 2011., Credit: Jonah Engle
The War on Drugs has made America the world's leading jailer. Increasingly, the casualties of the drug war are speaking out.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 12:39
A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana, and the New Jim Crow
From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
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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


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Who Controls Black Women's Bodies? (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rally in support of the Ohio Prevention First Act, Credit: creative commons Flickr user ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sounds of Gentrification
From: Dan Gordon
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Washington D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood has been a historically black, working-class community. Now, as property values in D.C. are climbing, a wa...

Bought by WCSU-FM, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 3
Cornel West & Carl Dix: Pursuing Justice in the Age of Obama
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Cornel West and Carl Dix, Credit: Revolution Books
A dialogue between Princeton University professor Cornel West, and Revolutionary Communist Party USA spokesman Carl Dix about the future of America...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Who Controls Black Women's Bodies?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Pro-abortion rally, Credit: Flickr user: ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WCSU-FM and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Voices From The Diaspora: Resistance and Community
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Riots all over the world are calling on us to get involved in societal change. But what kind of action is needed, and how do we create real change?...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...

Bought by WDDE, WAMU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 81
The Inner Life of a Campaign Volunteer
From: Emily Corwin
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LaDarrell Hagans is something of a full-time volunteer for Deval Patrick's reelection campaign for Governor of Massachusetts. Although LaDarrell k...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
James Lawson: Non-Violent Warrior
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Arrested in Nashville, 1960 , Credit: www.blackpast.com
An interview with James Lawson, the chief architect of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, and confidant to Martin Luther King. Lawson touches on every...

  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for Week of March 17, 2010
From: FuseBox Radio Broadcast
Series: FuseBox Radio Broadcast w/ DJ Fusion & Jon Judah
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Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent Hip-Hop Radio & 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & J...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 03:00:47
Obama Year In Review
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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A look at President Obama's first year in office.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:28:37
Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Marshall had already earned a place in histor...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, WMUU-LP, WFAE, KALW and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 22
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
Major Neill Frankin of LEAP - Deborah Jacobs ACLU-NJ
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: Major Neill Franklin, Credit: C. David Freitag
Deborah Jacobs of the ACLU-NJ on privacy issues with teenagers. Major Neill Franklin of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition speaks at the NORML ...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 1
Hard Times for African-American Workers
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
African-American workers have been hit especially hard by the alarming growth of unemployment.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
We Remain by Keith Redman
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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His first year in the competition, Keith says this piece is about humanity. Keith Redman is 18 years old and a member of Kuumba Lynx, which was th...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:20
DREAM INTERUPTED
From: Voices of Our World
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Racial Wealth Gap

  • Added: Feb 11, 2008
  • Length: 28:00
VOTING WHILE BLACK
From: Voices of Our World
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The issues of the black vote, race politics, and the 2008 election.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2008
  • Length: 28:00