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Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Celebrating Juneteenth, Robert Burch, Founder & Executive Director of the Sema Hadithi Foundation shares his take on the holiday and ways his organ...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 16:36
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever heard of the cartoonist Oliver Harrington? Probably not, but the artist played an instrumental role in German-American history. From ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 08, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This program was recorded on February 19, 2016.
Who we are and where we come from is a crucial question that now we are more able to answer than e...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 29:00
In celebration of Black History month, we mined the archives and revisited our interview with the late pianist and NEA Jazz Master Hank Jones.
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 4
Originally Broadcast: February 13, 2012
The exodus of approximately six million black people from the American South between 1915 and 1970 had a s...
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 2
“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 26:16
On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 45:28
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is...
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
The voice of a writer can be heard in words, and sometimes seen in the writer’s face. It is unusua...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker Jason Berry joins Gwen with fascinating stories and characters populating New Orleans’ cultural and mu...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 52:00
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A generational discussion in 2002 about the American Dream
- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 24:21
Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is arguably the most consequential social insult in ...
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In part 2 of our conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 29:00
For Black History Month, NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR revisits this program with the late August Wilson. FENCES, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winnin...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WDCB, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The number of Black-owned farms has drastically declined since the 1920s, and now make up less than two percent of total U.S. farmland. In this epi...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 21:23
- Purchases: 1
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 1
In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
Pandemics don’t just wreak havoc on bodies, they create shockwaves that, sooner or later, touch every corner of our being.
This week we asked you...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 42:25
Maria W. Stewart, as characterized by professor and scholar Sandra Kamusakiri, was a free black woman who lived in Boston, MA, from the 1820s to th...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
The late Gwendolyn Brooks shaped countless writers following her long poetic career. This episode looks back on her life as the first African-Amer...
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WDCB, WNMU-FM, KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
