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We talk with Michael Wolraich about his book, The Bishop And The Butterfly: Murder, Politics, And The End Of The Jazz Age. Then, we re-air part of ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 01:10:45

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Motherhood is a life without boundaries.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It started with one thin dime, and a bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. City busses were segregated back then – whites in the front, Blacks i...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
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Welcome to “Unveiling the Ancestors,” a radio special that sheds light on who we are today by looking at WHO came before us. I'm your host, Anne Ho...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2023
  • Length: 53:10
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

Bought by WABE, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, KMUN, WRMU and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 13
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KXCV


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WRGY, and KXCV


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Today in part two of a two-part episode, Dr. Lewis discusses their experiences in academia. Dr. Moten is a Black Feminist Historian who specializes...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 27:00
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Today in part one of a two-part episode, Dr. Lewis discusses their experiences in academia. Dr. Moten is a Black Feminist Historian who specializes...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 31:17
Caption: Latasha Harlins as an early teen., Credit: Christina Rogers.
Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
Caption:  Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer at their StoryCorps interview in Saint Clair Shores, MI, and Sparks, NV, on Feb. 6, 2022. , Credit: By StoryCorps
Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves and a founder of Bethune-Cookman University. She was often the only woman of color with a sea...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 1
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At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...

Bought by KVNF and KCNP


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCNY, Royalton Community Radio, and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WFAE, WMUU-LP, KEDT and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, KMUN, Harford Community Radio, WJCT and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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Last year, America celebrated the anniversary of many women getting the right to vote. But what led up to that victory was decades and decades of h...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7