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Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
Loving v Virginia & Obergefell v Hodges
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The story of marriage equality in the United States, told through two Supreme Court cases.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WCMU Michigan, KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WFAE and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 13
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
The Supreme Court & Dred Scott v Sandford
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The Supreme Court is considered by some to be the most powerful branch of US government. So what happens when the Court gets it wrong? Civics 101 f...

Bought by WCPN, KUPR low power FM, WYAP, KSKQ, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 19
Ep. 30: The Godfather of Black Space in Minneapolis
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: A.B. Cassius just after he was granted a liquor license for his cafe., Credit: Hennepin County Library and the children of John Glanton
Anthony Brutus Cassius was questioned by the FBI, fought to be the first Black person in Minnesota to get a liquor license, and his famous greasy b...

Bought by MPR News Stations and WGZS


  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 56:32
  • Purchases: 2
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
GN_3.33_National Freedom Day
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
February 1st is National Freedom Day, made into a holiday due to one man's efforts.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
UpFront Soul #2021.03-January 18-24, 2021 - Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This week, we honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We'll hear excerpts of his sermons, speeches, and interviews, along with funk,...

Bought by KMUN, WNMU-FM, KAAD-LP, KHNS, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 13
Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith Take a Stand
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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In 1968, Black American athlete Tommie Smith set a new world record. He became a gold medalist when he raced to win the 200-meter event at the Summ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 20:52
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for December 16, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump-GOP Election Coup Attempt: Republican Party Morphs into a Threat t...

Bought by KMXT and WKPW


  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ep. 439: Ijeoma Oluo, Jill Lepore, and The Bengsons, 12/11/2020
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Ijeoma Oluo
This episode features writer Ijeoma Oluo, historian and contributor at The New Yorker Jill Lepore, and music from indie folk duo The Bengsons.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Emma Coger Makes a Scene
From: KWIT
Series: Small Wonders
Caption: Supreme Court of Iowa. Emma Coger v. North Western Union Packet Company
In 1872, a black school teacher traveled by steamboat from Quincy, IL, to Keokuk, IA, to visit her family. Along the way, she was forcibly removed ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 05:20
November 2020 – LGBTQ youth react to the anti-marriage equality statement from Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Lil
OutCaster Lil presents OutCasters' views on statement from Justices Thomas and Alito attacking marriage equality

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for October 7, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: White Supremacist Trump Allies Threaten Intimidation and Violence at Elect...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dispatch #354: The Shadow of Caste
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Headlines from the Telegraph, Credit: Sandip Roy
The caste system is a long and controversial cultural norm in India, but now the Dalits may be getting a boost from America’s civil rights movements.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode One: Invisible History
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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The history of slavery is often taught as a bitter chapter of America’s past that has been rectified. But in Kentucky that history has been rarely ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 23
Episode Two: Recovering History
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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Due to prohibitions against enslaved people learning to read and write, there are only a few written records left behind by formerly enslaved Kentu...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, WKMS and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 22
All Things Being Equal, Hank Willis Thomas at the Cincinnati Art Museum
From: Susan Byrnes
Caption: Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976), The Cotton Bowl, from the series Strange Fruit, 2011. Chromogenic print. , Credit: . Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Copyright Hank Willis Thomas
Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ first major retrospective, “All Things Being Equal” is open at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Thomas’s work addresses the on...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 05:29
John Lewis: Profile in Peace (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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The late 17-term Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis is remembered in a special that includes the memorial ceremonies at the U.S. Capito...

Bought by KUNM, Wyoming Public Radio, WVPE, KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
John Lewis: Profile in Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The late 17-term Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis is remembered in a special that includes the memorial ceremonies at the U.S. Capito...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, KUHF, KETR-FM, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WUFT and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America, Demo
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 9
Mrs. Hamer, Echoes (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, spoke words that are all too relevant today. Today on Making Contact, you’ll hear archival recordings, and ex...

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Just Mercy
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, an African American, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989. The EJI provides legal assistance to prisoners ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:50
UpFront Soul #2020.03 - January 20-26, 2020 - Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This week, we honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We'll hear excerpts of his sermons, speeches, and interviews, along with funk,...

Bought by Prairie Public, KHNS, WOUB, WLPR , Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 8
Our Garbage, Ourselves
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 20:50
  • Purchases: 1

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