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In May, 1954 the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared, ”segregation in public education is a denial of the equal protection of the laws...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Though he first emerged in the public consciousness as a world-class athlete, Arthur Ashe’s subsequent contributions as an author, activist, humani...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, KKRN, and WLIW


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
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Maria W. Stewart, was a free black woman who lived in Boston, Massachusetts, from the early 1820s to the early 1840s. She was the first American bo...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 45:08
  • Purchases: 1
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The late Julian Bond conducted 51 extensive interviews with prominent black leaders in America. Phyllis Leffler who led the project with Bond, has ...

Bought by WLPR , WNSB, KISA Digital Studios, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 9

  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 49:01
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Michael talks to the funny, charming and insightful Baratunde Thurston, the co-founded of Cultivated Wit and the About Race podcast, and the author...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 01:02:37
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
Caption: Anelise Moon-Schruder, 24, is part of the white anti-racist movement., Credit: Paul Kiefer
Anelise Moon-Schruder, 24, is part of a movement of white people who are coming together to reflect on their privilege. As a young woman raised in ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 2
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
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Sid Davidoff was administrative assistant to Mayor John V. Lindsay for seven years. He was widely considered one of the Mayor’s top personal aides....

  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 11:30
Caption: Mr. Hoots is a Eurasian eagle owl, and one of Rodney Stotts' favorite raptors., Credit: Ari Daniel
Rodney grew up selling dope and guns. But he's always loved caring for birds. The drugs landed him in jail. The birds helped set him free.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 11:23
  • Purchases: 4
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In the mid 1800’s, boomtown-San Francisco was a city of men, only about 15 percent women. Slavery was illegal in the West but still-- white men wer...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 10:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: impalila island, Namibia, Credit: LN Lurie
I wanted to go to a bar in Impalila Island, Namibia. I couldn't because I'm white. Good thing- because I wouldn't have wanted to be there anyway.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 09:07
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In this podcast, Dr. John Hope Franklin speaks on the exploitation of young African Americans in college athletics. Franklin was one of the most re...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:34
Caption: Bayview Youth Advocate John Vuong prepares to outreach to other students about the Bayview Youth Summit., Credit: Kevin Jones
Around 20 teenagers are settling into a classroom at this year’s Bayview Youth Summit. After a few minutes, they’re quiet, eyes focused on someone ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 08:54
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Radio Curious visits with Michael Gene Sullivan, the resident playwright, director and a principal actor in "2015: Freedomland," a political and th...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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Winner of the 2013 Whiting Award for non-fiction, author Clifford Thompson reads from his memoir, Twin of Blackness. Just one sample of our daily c...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates' friend from Howard University was shot and killed by police in Virginia back in 2000. Written in the form of a letter to his own ...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Maya Forbes talks understanding social cues, having honest conversations, and being a sloppy dynamic team.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 09:18
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Interview with Peace Corps legend Rebekah Brown "Brownie" Lee about cultural difference, race, and colonialism at her home in Ouidah, Benin, Februa...

  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 21:24
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They are supposed to mold and inspire minds, but that may some argue that will be difficult while 80% are white.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.

Bought by WCPN, XRAY.fm, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Comedian W. Kamau Bell performing his stand up act, Credit: flickr user Florida International University
In the auditorium of Willard Middle School, about 300 people have gathered, many of them sitting on those rickety school bucket chairs, the ones th...

Bought by WJCT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 2
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This week, Johnny Full-Time is joined by Dr. Gary Burnett, author of the new book 'The Gospel According To The Blues.'

Bought by WJSU and WSGE


  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2