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Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 23:59
Co-host, Pamela Spoto, and I speak with 34-year veteran Top Cop, Norm Stamper of Battle in Seattle fame. He is author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop'...
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 58:26
Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis became the embodiment of American unity during WWII. He walked a fine line to serve the goals of Victory ab...
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
His most important dream is to have the best possible education for his son who is 9 years old now. And not to endure the horrors of a life as a ch...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 16:46
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
The American History Guys discuss the important moral and tactical contributions of African-American soldiers in the Union Army.
Bought by Radio Newark, PRX Remix, Louisville Public Media, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 01, 2013
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 4
A young boy's father is killed in Somalia, as he makes his way to a camp in Kenya. After a long journey, now in the US, he doesn't feel discriminat...
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 08:51
Can journalists, by being more mindful of the language that they use and the breadth of people that they talk to, have an impact on reducing confli...
Bought by KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jun 13, 2013
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
Staff Sergeant Daniel Hodd and his mother, Evelyn, talk about Daniel's decision to put aside a promising career as a pianist in order to join the M...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 2
The Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery is the oldest existing cemetery in Minneapolis. Since the first burial in 1853, the cemeter...
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 03:56
Talana Banks and her brother, Willie, talk with their mother, Chief Warrant Officer Felicia Banks, about her deployment to Iraq in 2005 and their l...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 1
This is a music program honoring the history of the African American soldier through song.
The program includes three individual sets, and includ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2012
- Length: 50:18
- Purchases: 8
- Added: Sep 05, 2011
- Length: 54:56
- Purchases: 1
Portland, Maine is home to one of the largest Southern Sudanese refugee communities in the United States, many of whom settled in the city after fl...
Bought by WMPG and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 2
Lt. Col. Ivan Ware has known war. For thirty-two months, he served in Europe. He’s been bombed at, shot at, and fought back. But his battles did...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Jan 24, 2011
- Length: 04:07
- Purchases: 1
Geoffrey is a guy with his feet in a couple places. He attends school full time, works two jobs, takes care of six siblings and a daughter, and ha...
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 2
To mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the nation’s finest historians gathered on September 24th at Norfolk State University to discuss th...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WUAL, and KWIT
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
A conversation about the contingency of one state's role in the Civil War.
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 2
Prime Time Radio re-broadcasts an hour-long special with Civil Rights pioneer Dr. Dorothy Height.
- Added: Apr 23, 2010
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 4
Genocide has claimed the lives of millions of civilians worldwide. Now, in the aftermath of such atrocities, human rights advocates are beginning t...
- Added: Jan 15, 2010
- Length: 55:00
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa reads from and discusses his latest collection, WARHORSES (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2008).
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 17, 2009
- Length: 16:51
- Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
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...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Mar 18, 2008
- Length: 06:08
- Purchases: 2
America's first black fighter pilots claim they never lost a bomber, but a historian says newly uncovered records prove otherwise.
- Added: Dec 13, 2006
- Length: 03:18
Vietnam Veteran and drug therapist Woody Curry returns to Vietnam forty years later.
Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUOW, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more
- Added: Sep 14, 2006
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 9
How one man went from an African war zone to performing on the stages of California.
- Added: Feb 02, 2006
- Length: 16:55
- Purchases: 2
