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Conversations: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with author Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her recent novel Take My Hand, based on the 1973 case of the Relf sisters who ...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 40:06
Special Report- Jubilee Justice Regenerative Farming: Tackling Racism & Rice
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton
From: Radio Diaries
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On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 2
Korematsu v United States & Japanese American Internment
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The story of Japanese-American internment during WWII, and the Supreme Court case that challenged it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WCMU Michigan, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNM and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 14
A Man of His Time by Kate T. Billingsley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: John Douglas Thompson
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. In the short play, A Man of His Time, a descendant of Supreme Co...

Bought by KZYX and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 32:06
  • Purchases: 2
Good Intentions: A Story of Cross-Racial Adoption
From: Brenna Daldorph
Caption: The Purdy family pose in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1984 when all four kids were in high school. From left, Kristen, Ron, Jessica, Hoãng Stephen, David and Pamela Purdy., Credit: Photo courtesy Pamela Chatterton Purdy
For more than forty years, Reverend David Purdy and his wife Pamela saw themselves as the heroes in their own story – white people who were civil r...

Bought by WJCT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 14:10
  • Purchases: 3
Charme's Transition
From: Caitlin Pierce
Series: Borders
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Charme churns through the rough St. Louis Public Schools while she is going through her gender transition.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 1
Fallen Heroes of 2014
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Yuri Kochiyama, Credit: Bob Hsiang
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...

Bought by WNJR and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Louisville Marks 60th Anniversary of Civil Rights Flashpoint
From: Rick Howlett
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This year, Louisville, Kentucky has been marking the anniversary of a touchstone event of the Civil Rights era.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 05:49
The Legacy of Massive Resistance (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. Now, fo...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, WFHB, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
The Legacy of Massive Resistance (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
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When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. Now, fo...

Bought by WNYC, WRIR, WVAS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WJAB and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 10
Marriage Poster Gals Del & Phyllis: Their Politics
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:24
Marriage Poster Gals Del & Phyllis: A Love Story
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again -- legally -- in 2008, mere months b...

Bought by WORT, KQED, and KVMR


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 3
Omar Barghouti on How to End Apartheid in Palestine
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Inspired by the campaign to end South African apartheid, Palestinians are leading an international campaign to put economic and political pressure ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
The Legacy of Massive Resistance
From: With Good Reason
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In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its schools rather than integrate. The closures lasted for five years, and the people who were denie...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KZYX, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Legacy of Massive Resistance
From: With Good Reason
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Edward R. Murrow called them “ The Lost Class of 1959”. The kids who had nowhere to go when some Virginia public schools closed their doors rather...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1