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Encore Presentation: Tales from the South 002 with Grif Stockley
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tin Roof Project Encore Presentations
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Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Remixing Revolution: Art, Music and Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Artists Rich Medina and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Credit: Flickr user: kuishimbo
Art and music have long contributed to society and our way of life. But in these dire financial times, it’s not always a priority in our schools. O...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Re-humanizing Immigrants: Reflections by Maria Hinojosa
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Maria Hinojosa, Credit: Michael Paras
Despite President Obama’s promise to change America’s broken immigration system, the dehumanization and detention of immigrants continues to rise. ...

Bought by KDNA Radio and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Rob Robinson and Beverly Corbin
From: Rachel Falcone
Series: Housing is a Human Right Storytelling Project Vol. 1
Caption: Young man walking in Brooklyn, Credit: Michael Premo
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. Shortly after being promoted and relocated from New York to Miami, Rob Robinson is laid off a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 13:07
  • Purchases: 1
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 1)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
Caption: White students protest integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. , Credit: Photograph by Flip Schulke/CORBIS
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...

Bought by WDDE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, WCMU Michigan, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 32
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Michelle Alexander
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

Bought by KVMR and KSFR


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
This WE Believe - Race
From: Phil Mariage
Caption: PRX default Piece image
3 'This I Believe' essays from older, middle and young generations on Race

  • Added: Feb 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
James Lawson: Non-Violent Warrior
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Arrested in Nashville, 1960 , Credit: www.blackpast.com
An interview with James Lawson, the chief architect of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, and confidant to Martin Luther King. Lawson touches on every...

  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Arizona and the Controversial SB 1070 Law
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
Caption: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer
A closer look to the SB 1070 bill.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
Practically Speaking: What's in a Name
From: Ayana Contreras
Series: Practically Speaking
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Are African-American parents that choose unique or African-sounding names putting their children at a disadvantage? Is society unduly prejudiced ag...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 10:22
  • Purchases: 1
THE LANGUAGE OF RACE
From: Voices of Our World
Caption: John McWhorter
Does the conventional language used to discuss race actually impede our attempts to reach mutual understanding? We discuss the language of race wit...

Bought by KWMR, WGBH Radio Boston, and WTIP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 3
WHITOPIA
From: Voices of Our World
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Race issue in America's whitest communities.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Redefining Human Rights: The Case for Food, Health Care & Housing
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Annie Flores, Womens Economic Agenda Project; Max Rameau, Take Back the Land Founder; Shereen D'Souza, California Food and Justice Coalition Director., Credit: Khanh Pham
Are food, housing, and healthcare human rights? A round table discussion about the right to healthy food, the right to housing, and the right to he...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
From Death Row To A Doctorate
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Consider spending time on death row and turning that experience into the drive to get a doctorate?

  • Added: Nov 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896 to 2009
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Keith Plessy, descendant of Homer Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, great, great grandaughter of Judge John Ferguson, both litigants in the 1896 Supreme ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold
From: Rob Rosenthal
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(NOTE: This program was updated in 2012 for the 100th anniversary of the eviction.) In 1912, the state of Maine evicted a mixed-race community fro...

Bought by WERU, KFAI Minneapolis, KUER, WCQS, WFAE and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2009
  • Length: 58:39
  • Purchases: 21

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