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Three poems of loss, courage and resilience for these times.
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 03:05
February 1, 2022 – A young straight ally considers his own place in activism
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- Added: Jan 30, 2022
- Length: 08:05
- Purchases: 1
We asked our peers to share one of their Black Heroes...
- Added: Mar 03, 2021
- Length: 04:51
A review of the new film Judas and the Black Messiah from Los Angeles Film Critics' Association member Beandrea July.
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 05:49
This week on World Ocean Radio we share the final episode of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this broadcast we look at the ...
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 05:18
This week on World Ocean Radio: part four of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this episode we discuss the history of La Amis...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 05:30
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part three of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series, we introduce listeners to Diving with a Pu...
- Added: Jul 20, 2020
- Length: 05:25
"Transparency is important, especially in matters of public health. We treasure what we measure..."
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring tim...
- Added: Jul 17, 2020
- Length: 03:00
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part two of the four-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series, we discuss trans-Atlantic slavery in the con...
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 05:10
Juan de Onate is responsible for brutalizing New Mexico’s Indigenous people...hear more about the history of the Spanish colonizer.
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 59:02
"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news th...
- Added: Jun 19, 2020
- Length: 03:00
"Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law."
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 03:30
When Hurricane Florence hit coastal North Carolina, Shecoria Smith, age 16, was worried about her father returning from a work trip.
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 02:49
A recent east coast storm unearthed the remains of America's last slave ship in Alabama: the Clotilda. These remains, and the artifacts from anothe...
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- Added: Feb 06, 2018
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 1
Robin Washington is African American and Jewish and has family members all over the world. Some are Jewish, some are other religions but many celeb...
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- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 01:57
- Purchases: 3
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.
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- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 07:22
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2015
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2015
An illustrative profile of the Austin's Long Branch Inn weekly blues jam, coordinated by Harold McMillan of DiverseArts Culture Works.
- Added: Jul 12, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Sonny Knight considers himself blessed. If that's true, he is being rewarded for his positive attitude, and incredible amount of patience. It began...
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- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 1
When one thinks of fashion forward countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo usually doesn't come to mind. But Les Sapeurs might make us feel dif...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:44
Recently at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, Ayana Contreras caught a documentary about Death, a 1970s all-black proto-punk band out of Detroit. The do...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:18
- Purchases: 2
Public employees, many of them African-Americans, are being hit particularly hard by today's high levels of unemployment.
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 04:03
Poet Ashaki Howard, 17, is a senior at Kenwood Academy and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Epic Sound representing her high...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:48
The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a leader in the fight for racial equality, should be high on the list of those we honor during ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2011
- Length: 04:02
Are African-American parents that choose unique or African-sounding names putting their children at a disadvantage? Is society unduly prejudiced ag...
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- Added: Mar 10, 2010
- Length: 10:22
- Purchases: 1
Ayana Contreras explores the motivation behind "playing the numbers", or the lottery.
- Added: Mar 10, 2010
- Length: 09:46
