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240911: The Black Panthers in Algeria , 9/11/2024
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact (Automated Delivery)
Caption: "Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party" [https://www.flickr.com/photos/36521980095@N01/52743460491] , Credit: by danxoneil, licensed under CC BY 2.0
On today’s Making Contact, our friends from the podcast, Kerning Cultures, bring us “Black Panthers in Algeria.” It’s the story of when Elaine Mokh...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
The Black Panthers in Algeria
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: "Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party" [https://www.flickr.com/photos/36521980095@N01/52743460491], Credit: by danxoneil, licensed under CC BY 2.0.
On today’s Making Contact, our friends from the podcast, Kerning Cultures, bring us “Black Panthers in Algeria.” It’s the story of when Elaine Mokh...

Bought by WETS, KMUN, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Billie Holiday + Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
From: Nicholas Williams
Series: American Songcatcher | 59 min
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Lacking any formal training, Billie Holiday is considered among the greatest jazz vocalists of all time, with one of the most tumultuous lives of a...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Aug 31, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
Son House (Part 2)
From: Nicholas Williams
Series: American Songcatcher | 8 Minute Shorts
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Highly regarded as the “King of the Delta Blues” and a “Father of the Blues”, Son House was a force of nature who’s emotive guitar playing and prea...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
Son House (Part 1)
From: Nicholas Williams
Series: American Songcatcher | 8 Minute Shorts
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Highly regarded as the “King of the Delta Blues” and a “Father of the Blues”, Son House was a force of nature who’s emotive guitar playing and prea...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
Ending Homelessness with Reverend Patricia Gould Champ and Allison Bogdanovic
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Reverend Patricia Gould Champ and Allison Bogdanovic, Credit: Jay Paul
Call it fate. Call it destiny. Call it kismet. Whatever you want to call it, it was that strange thing that occurs when two people are in the ...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2024
  • Length: 27:14
Shortcut through Black History
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: James Baldwin 100th Birthday
A rewriting of Black History in 2024 with help from Kamala Harris, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr, Langston Hughes, Supreme Court Justice Th...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:12
Ray Charles: The Genius
From: WMKV
Series: The Fobiano Music Series -Series #1
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Brother Ray, Ray Charles Robinson, also known as The Genius, paved a way in the volatile civil rights environment of the 60s. He was a pop and eve...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:38
Nat King Cole: Musical Royalty
From: WMKV
Series: The Fobiano Music Series -Series #1
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He became the voice of a generation and originally didn't plan to sing at all. Pianist Nat King Cole would vault to stardom after meeting prolific...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:22
Taking The Reins
From: Rebecca McInroy
Series: American Compassion
Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
The Passage of The Civil Rights Act

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:42
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 64 - 'Intersectionality & Disability' feat Vilissa Thompson
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Racial equity in the world of disability.

Bought by KSJD, KSTK, KKWE Niijii Radio, KZUM, and WOJB


  • Added: Aug 05, 2024
  • Length: 56:44
  • Purchases: 5
Bernice Reagon & The Freedom Singers
From: David Dunaway
Caption: Freedom Singers with Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez, Credit: Dave Gahr
This award-winning 57 minute documentary evokes the history of the civil rights movement through its music and actuality. The late Bernice Reagon l...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Season 1, Episode 54 - 'Do Good Daily' feat Danielle Coke Balfour
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Teaching social justice through art.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Jul 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:05
  • Purchases: 1
Black Indianapolis Series
From: Deqah Hussein-Wetzel
Series: Black Indianapolis Series
Caption: Black Indianapolis Series, Credit: Urbanist Media
This two-part series on African American history in Indianapolis, IN, takes you to Indiana Avenue—a once vibrant Black corridor with homes, restaur...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 52:54
Unsung Heroes of the American Revolution
From: Shelley M. Johnson
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This is a documentary that commemorates the Fourth of July holiday. Created, produced, and hosted by Shelley M. Johnson. It covers major events of ...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, KZYX, WLPR , KUAC, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2024
  • Length: 52:32
  • Purchases: 7
Living the Word with Reverend Patricia Gould-Champ, Part 3, Conclusion
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Reverend Patricia Gould-, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Reverend Patricia Gould Champ, also known as the Queen Mother or simply Reverend Pat, began her career as a teacher, but ultimately received the ca...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 27:20
Black, Queer & Free
From: The Stoop
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Stories about the joys - and challenges- of living at the intersection of Blackness and Queerness

Bought by WLPR , WORT, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFSU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 31, 2024
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 9
Rita Dove: Rara Avis
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Rita Dove, Credit: Photo of Rita Dove by Fred Viebahn
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 24:10
How Memorial Day Really Began
From: Shelley M. Johnson
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Memorial Day began as a way to unite a country deeply divided by the Civil War. This documentary produced and narrated by Shelley M. Johnson talks ...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 18, 2024
  • Length: 49:09
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:53
Episode 1 - Help This Garden Grow
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:27
Living the Word with Patricia Gould-Champ, Part i
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Reverend Patricia Gould-, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Reverend Patricia Gould-Champ, a woman affectionately referred to as the Queen Mother, which, in her case, is not a petty, royal appellation. Rathe...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 26:36
Season 1, Episode 33 - 'Hunt The Good Stuff' feat Duncan Kirkwood
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Resilience is a choice.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 57:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Many Ways We Mother
From: The Stoop
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An exploration of the different ways Black people parent

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KJZZ, KALW, KECG, and KUHF


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 5
Reproductive Justice: The Ongoing Struggle for Bodily Autonomy (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4

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