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The fight over what can and can’t be taught in schools is shaping up to be one of the most controversial issues in a pivotal mid-term election year...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
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DaShawn Barr played a prominent role in the racial justice protests that occurred in Austin, Texas in summer 2020.

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:35
Caption: André Wallace, Credit: Shefik
Birds - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, CDCD, LLC.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:26
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"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news th...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Unveiled in 2004, the African American Legacy Project (AALP) of Northwest Ohio, has been documenting and preserving the history of Northwest Ohio's...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:59
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Interlochen Public Radio Morning Edition host Dan Wanschura talks with journalist and author Steve Luxenberg.

Bought by WCMU Michigan and WKAR


  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
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John Lewis remembers how Dr. King’s words inspired him to join the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WYAP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 8
Caption:  Carol Barne---Seay, Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis
In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay , Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for p...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:02
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Students at several prominent historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), have demanded that school administrators address sexual assault...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Cynthia McKinney
Topics include her entry into politics, racism, the various factions of the Deep State, 9/11, COINTELPRO, media propaganda, Hollywood, the Israel l...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
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After Ida B. Wells published a column on May 21, 1892, denouncing “the old threadbare lie,” that lynching was used to “protect white womanhood,” a ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
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In this timely installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage producer Jeff Carmack talks about the Martin Luther...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:45
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Dion Diamond talks about the risks he took as a young civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a police officer. Just before he retired as chief, 5 ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Thomas Mullen is the author of The Lightning Men, Darktown, and The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA TODAY. To l...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 15:39
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“Black Detroit” A People’s History of Self-Determination”- is a rich account of African-American history in Motown, written by award-winning journa...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 40:51
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Discussion on the lingering history of racist ideology in the Americas and beyond.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:02
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What does color of skin have to do with equal access to justice in America? The Equal Protection Clause, part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitu...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2017
  • Length: 48:40
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Generation Justice fellow Matthew Brown reflects on the exploits of Dr. King, and the legacy he left for America.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:41
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We’re going to take a look at a man who became wealthy and well-known well before that “new deal” and who suffered the slings and arrows of America...

Bought by WXDU and WJAB


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
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This conversation was excerpted for the program, "Darker than Blue: The Failure of School Integration." This is the full conversation between Inte...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 55:59
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In NYC, African-Americans make up nearly 26% of the population but make up less than 4% of the NYC Fire Department. For the past 150 years, the cit...

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  • Length: 01:00:01
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The Cutting Edge presents Mary Helen Washington, author of “ The Other Blacklist” which shows how the government targeted African- American as wel...

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  • Length: 01:02:17
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The Harlem Renaissance Era of the 20’s, the "New Negroes" who had begun to express themselves in a variety of cultural and social spheres- W.E.B. ...

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  • Length: 01:00:18
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The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a speech by Cornell West, the author of The Radical King, an anthology of Martin Luther King Jr.’s essays,...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:39