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Filmspotting 606 (10/07/16): The Birth of a Nation, Top 5 Most Anticipated Films at the Chicago International Film Festival
From: WBEZ
Caption: Colman Domingo and Nate Parker in 'The Birth of a Nation' (2016)
Director Nate Parker came out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival in January with an award-winning debut film and talk of being an Oscar front-ru...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRIR, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, WOUB and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Oh Freedom! #2016.01 - Ashley Bryan
From: Susan Dickson-Smith
Series: Oh Freedom!
Caption: Ashley Bryan
Author and illustrator Ashley Bryan talks about his new book, “Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life,” his experie...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cedar Grove
From: Catherine Moore
Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Teaching the Evils of Slavery
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Humanities Minutes
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This episode explores how we teach the subject of slavery in Schools.

Bought by KFOI Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 2
Natural Curiosity
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"Natural Curiosity" is about Joice Heth.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 1
Crazy Bet
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"Crazy Bet" is about Elizabeth Van Lew.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 1
Notes on an Imagined Plaque to be Added to the Statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Upon Hearing that the Memphis City Counci has Voted to Move it and the Exhumed Remains of General Forrest and his Wife, Mary Ann Montgomery Forrest, from their Curren
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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Episode 73 is about Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Bought by KZYX and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 11:05
  • Purchases: 2
The Wheel
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"The Wheel" is about Robert Smalls.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 15:21
Women Rising 30: International Slavery and Human Trafficking
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Women Rising Radio #30 profiles women fighting slavery, trafficking and forced labor globally.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
More Than A Runaway: Maroons In Louisiana
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Image of the St. Malo Maroon community from an 1883 edition of Harper's Weekly., Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
This episode of TriPod: New Orleans at 300 looks at runaway slaves known as maroons.

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


  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 3
Solidarity And Revolt Aboard The Slave Ship Creole
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: A 19th century map of Nassau, Bahamas., Credit: THE MECHANICAL CURATOR COLLECTION / THE BRITISH LIBRARY
In this episode of TriPod, Laine Kaplan-Levenson discusses the slave revolt on the Brig Creole with Harvard Professor Walter Johnson.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 10:23
Episode 9 - Live from Fall for the Book - Passenger on the Pearl
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Kendall, Vibha, and Gareth with author Winifred Conkling
The largest attempted slave escape on U.S. soil happened in SouthWest Washington, DC. That's the tale in "Passenger on the Pearl." Young readers d...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 39:45
Episode 8 - Chains
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Amandla, Imani, Angela, and Eunhea, readers from Robert Goddard Montessori School, Grace Christian School, Fairhaven School, and St. Anne's School – all in Maryland.
What role did African-Americans play in the Revolutionary War? "Chains" - the first in a trilogy by Laurie Hulse Anderson - takes us to Manhattan i...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 21:04
A Visit With A Free Black Woman - Boston, 1840: Maria Stewart - Professor Sandra Kamusukiri
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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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
Magical Martinique: The Island of Flowers
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Anse Cafard Slave Memorial on Martinique., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Imagine paradise where your senses explode with a banquet of color, or scents and flavors exicte, or where you experience exotic tranquility. That...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jan 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
Monumental Divide
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Students from J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, NC raise the Confederate flag in April 1961., Credit: Library of Congress.
Historian Maurie McInnis and journalist Michael Paul Williams weigh in on the history and controversy of the Confederate monuments on Richmond, Vir...

Bought by WCNY, RadioStPete Florida, KSFR, and WETS


  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 10:28
  • Purchases: 4
Gray Coats on the Silver Screen
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Students from J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, NC raise the Confederate flag in April 1961., Credit: Digital Public Library of America, East Carolina University.
Film critic Eileen Jones talks with Brian Ballogh about Hollywood’s enduring love affair with Confederate heroes. This story comes from the BackSto...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WETS, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 3
Confederate States of Mind
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Students from J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, N.C. raise the Confederate flag in April 1961., Credit: Digital Public Library of America, East Carolina University.
WBEZ Chicago’s Logan Jaffe talks with three Americans for whom the Confederate flag represents three very different things. This story comes from t...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 08:49
  • Purchases: 1
Puzzling Out African American Genealogy
From: Missouri Audio Project
Series: Summer Story Workshop, 2015
Caption: Monica Hand, Credit: Meredith Turk
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
The Messrs. Craft
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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"The Messrs. Craft" is about Ellen Craft.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 29, 2015
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Outlaw Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A recent series of investigative stories entitled "The Outlaw Ocean" by Ian Urbina of the New York Times exposes the dark side of the deep sea, des...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:21
Pursuing Freedom
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Female personification of the Bill of Rights, 1941, Credit: Library of Congress
English professor Jeannine DeLombard talks with host Ed Ayers about the paradox some slaves faced when they sued their owners for the right to be f...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 2
Marking Stories of Slavery (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Plantations in America’s South are physical testaments to the great wealth accrued through slave labor. Yet, plantation museums often gloss over th...

Bought by WJCT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WFHB, WABE, WKCC and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
Marking Stories of Slavery (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Plantations in America’s South are physical testaments to the great wealth accrued through slave labor. Yet, plantation museums often gloss over th...

Bought by WCNY, WABE, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KPVL, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
No Mountain High Enough
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Surrender of Genl. Lee, at Appomattox C.H. Va. April 9th. 1865, Credit: Currier & Ives, Library of Congress
Historian Brenda Stevenson talks with Ed about the extraordinary struggles black families endured to reunite, after slavery had wrenched them apart.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 07:34
  • Purchases: 2

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