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Official history says the first Memorial Day celebration was held in Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1868, where Union and Confederate soldi...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Three poems of loss, courage and resilience for these times.
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 03:05
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
"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
For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: May 05, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Look around. Change is happening. People you know and people you pass on the street are in transition. They are transforming their lives. Unless yo...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 01:10:04
This is a series of interviews designed to showcase various attitudes held in the African American Community about Gun Ownership in General, and Co...
- Added: Aug 24, 2016
- Length: 16:05
“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 22:40
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Host and one of the founders of the American Black Male Leadership Institute Alfred Bundy talks to three more individuals who's desire and determin...
- Added: Apr 04, 2015
- Length: 49:57
In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:04
The American Black Male Leadership Institute Public Services Announcement #1
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: 01:10
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
There is an effort underway in Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Bed Stuy, to protect the old architecture by turning parts of the neighborhood into historic ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 05:20
- Purchases: 1
WADDIE WELCOME & THE BELOVED COMMUNITY tells the story of friendships that transcended divisions of disability, race, and income.
Broadcast on WMPG...
- Added: Feb 01, 2011
- Length: 56:48
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
Exploring the American dream through a homless shelter in Charleston and a lawyer in Baton Rouge
- Added: Jun 04, 2007
- Length: 24:59
Although the Cold War is long over, red-baiting for political advantage continues.
- Added: Nov 26, 2005
- Length: 03:03
A remembrance of a friend from junior high school who was murdered in 2000 by a chicago policeman
- Added: Jun 28, 2005
- Length: 34:33
- Purchases: 2