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A Fiery Unrest: Why Plymouth Avenue Burned
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Silver's Grocery on Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis in 1967., Credit: Minneapolis Star & Tribune Negatives, July 1, 1967-August 31, 1967: Box 263. Minneapolis and St Paul Newspaper Negatives Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.
During the summer of 1967, Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis went up in flames. This was during a period known as the Long, Hot Summer when frus...

Bought by KVSC and MPR News Stations


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 2
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUT...

Bought by KALW, WVAS, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Americans Terrorism (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina. Aran Shetterly, who is writing a b...

Bought by WNCU, KVCR, Spokane Public Radio, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 5
American Terrorism (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina. The killings still reverberates i...

Bought by WNCU, KWMU St. Louis, WMMT, WCNY, WGTE Public Media and more


  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 19
American Terrorism (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina. The killings still reverberates i...

Bought by KRZA, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 12
Unfreedom (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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- Children who interact in some way with the justice system—even if it’s just living near a justice system facility—have worse health and education...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, KRDP, WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
1619: Past and Present (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- Over 400 years ago, in 1619, the first Africans arrived in English-speaking North America. Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should comme...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
1619: Past and Present (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Over 400 years ago, in 1619, the first Africans arrived in English-speaking North America. Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should commem...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WJCT, KRDP, WUGA (part of GPB), KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
Pilgrimage to Montgomery (52 minutes)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, Morehead State Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 51:48
  • Purchases: 4
Pilgrimage to Montgomery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's s...

Bought by KVSC, WVAS, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
1619: Past and Present
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-- Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should commemorate 1619 and what’s at stake when we ignore it. -- Richard Chew explains how a British ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGTE Public Media, WRKF, WCSU-FM, and KWTF community radio for Sonoma County


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 51:23
  • Purchases: 5
Invisible Founders (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. -Justin Reid tell...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WGTE Public Media, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRKF, Morehead State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 53:45
  • Purchases: 12
Invisible Founders (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. They were there to ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Morehead State Public Radio, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
Invisible Founders (28:50)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-Justin Reid tells the story of how he set out to find the plantation where his great-great grandfather was enslaved, and what he found there. -Hi...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KMUD, and KKRN


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Heroes of American Dissent (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Michael Higginbotham is the author of "Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism In Post-Racial America". He has a list of people—some well known, some n...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
Pilgrimage (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's s...

Bought by KXCV and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Voices of Vietnam: Fighting on Two Fronts (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-African Americans who fought for their country in Vietnam often experienced in the ranks the racism their families endured back home. While white...

Bought by WVAS, KMUN, KRDP, WJCU, and WFHB


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Invisible Founders (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. Justin Reid tell...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 11
Invisible Founders (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. Justin Reid tell...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUN, WVAS, KRZA and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is ...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCMJ Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: English: Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, oil on canvas painting by Agostino Brunias, ca. 1764-1796, Credit: Agostino Brunias / ArtDaily.org
There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:58
“Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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The Cutting Edge presents Angela J. Davis talking about her book “Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment”, in which she exp...

Bought by KMSU and KISA Digital Studios


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:03
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Stamped offers a deeply researched, provocative narrative that is a comprehensive history of anti-Black racist ideas—their origins, and how they be...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
My Life, My Love, My Legacy - Coretta Scott King
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Interview with Barbara Reynolds,founding editor of USA Today on her 2017 book My Life, My Love, My Legacy biography of Coretta King, condensed from...

Bought by WMMT and WVAS


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 2
Histories of Resistance in Ohio’s Prisons
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into the history of Midwestern prison resistance. We share more of the story of Si...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:54