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Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor Bayard Rustin, one of the most central figures in the African American struggle for Civil Rights and Freedom. Rustin wa...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Votes for Women
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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To honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we take a trip to Green-Wood cemetery to the grave of Sarah Smith Garnet, one of Brooklyn's B...

Bought by WCNY and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Sydney Reed and Rep. James Clyburn
From: StoryCorps
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Rep. James Clyburn speaks with his granddaughter, Sydney Reed, about the lessons he’s learned from success and failure.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:04
StoryCorps Griot: John Lewis and Valerie Jackson
From: StoryCorps
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John Lewis remembers how Dr. King’s words inspired him to join the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WYAP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 8
Panther Cubs
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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We don'y just plant the seeds so we can eat the fruit. We plant the seeds so the fruit will be there for generations.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 1
Reading Race
From: Rebecca Nolan
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A racial justice book group confronts the reality of racism on Cape Cod.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:32
StoryCorps Griot: Carol Barner--Seay, Shirley Reese , Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Carol Barne---Seay, Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis
In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay , Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for p...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:02
Mark Bradford Connects Art with the Real World
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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We meet Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford—known for connecting art with the real world—when he represents the United States in the 57th Venice...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:01
Marching for Their Lives without Thoughts and Prayers
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Darian Wyatt., Credit: Charles McGuigan
At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Dion Diamond
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dion Diamond talks about the risks he took as a young civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
WHOSE STREETS? -- Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Damon Davis & Sabaah Folayan, San Francisco, CA 4/14/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis talk hypocrisy, reckless disregard, and modernized blackface.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 15:17
StoryCorps: Ellie Dahmer and Bettie Dahmer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Vernon Dahmer was a successful farmer who fought for voting rights in the mid-1960s. His family recalls the night he was killed by the KKK.

Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Unitarian Church Embraces Black Lives Matter Movement
From: Katie Klocksin
Caption: The Black Lives Matter sign at the Unitarian Church of Evanston, Credit: Katie Klocksin
The story of how members of the mostly white Unitarian Church of Evanston decided to take a stand in the Black Lives Matter movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 2
Leroy Moton Remembers Viola Luizzo Murder as Civil Rights Turning Point
From: Sara Karl
Caption: Leroy Moton in 1965, Credit: Encyclopedia of Alabama
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
StoryCorps: J.T. Johnson and Al Lingo
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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J.T. Johnson and Al Lingo remember having acid thrown on them after jumping into a whites-only swimming pool in St. Augustine, Florida in June of 1...

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KMUD, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Lawrence and Simeon Cumberbatch
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lawrence Cumberbatch (R) tells his son, Simeon (L), how he traveled from New York City to Washington DC with Brooklyn CORE for the March on Washing...

Bought by WEZU, WRIR, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 4
Author Robert Hicks and a Civil War cemetery
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Caption: McGavock Confederate Cemetery, Credit: Gene Korte
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Republican Party has reached its peak in the South
From: With Good Reason
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Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
The Sounds of Gentrification
From: Dan Gordon
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Washington D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood has been a historically black, working-class community. Now, as property values in D.C. are climbing, a wa...

Bought by WCSU-FM, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 3
Herbie Hancock - The Imagine Project -- Part 2
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
Caption: Herbie Hancock
Hancock talks about his collaboration with African and Latin American stars.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 07:21
Tia Fuller
From: Reese Erlich
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Tia Fuller plays sax with Biance's band and heads her own jazz group. She talks about problems women face as jazz artists.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago: January 20, 2009
From: Ed Herrmann
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chicagoans reflect on the inauguration of Barack Obama.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2009
  • Length: 18:36
Training for Change
From: Hillary Frank
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Four social activists talk about why a day of service is the wrong way to honor Martin Luther King.

Bought by PRX Remix, WSLR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KVMR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 4
George Dubya: An Old School Mix
From: Michael Stark
Caption: PRX default Piece image
......as heard on "The Tom Joyner Morning Show"

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2004
  • Length: 17:23
  • Purchases: 1