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Echoes of a Coup

From: Scene on Radio

One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, WYPR, WFDD and more

Civics 101: The True Story Of Reconstruction

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.

Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights

The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

Civil Rights: Plessy v Ferguson

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

"Separate" did not start here.

Civil Rights: Dred Scott v Sandford

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

The anticanon case that had to be undone through Constitutional amendment.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

Unspun Honors Black History with Educator and Poet, Pamela Spoto

From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling

Unspun takes a look at Black History and current Civil Rights and equality issues in America with Pamela Spoto, local educator, activist and host o...

A Century before Rosa Parks !

From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: OCTOBER 2014

Author Sam Roberts reads about a civil rights pioneer indeed, from his new book. Another example of our daily 100-second show -- great for top-of-t...

You Are How You Sound

From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language

How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.

Bought by KRZA

Linguistic Insights

From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language

In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix

Melissa Harris-Perry: Confronting Stereotypes of the Black Woman

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, Credit: Melissa Harris-Perry

On this edition, author and political science professor Melissa Harris-Perry speaks about the stereotypes black women face, the resulting impacts o...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WCPN, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, KHNS and more

Bandit Barriers Signal Gentrification in Oakland

From: Abbie Fentress Swanson

A story about how those thick Plexiglas walls come down in an Oakland, California neighborhood as more white folks move in.

“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”

From: Dred-Scott Keyes

IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...