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Caption: Ribbon cutting at Tulsa's EduRec Youth Center for Black History Saturdays. , Credit: Credit: Black History Saturdays
When Oklahoma passed a law limiting discussion of race in classrooms, Tulsa activist Kristi Williams rallied the community to create Black History ...

Bought by KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: James Baldwin on the water of the Golden Horn, Istanbul © Sedat Pakay 1965. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
In his book Mullen shows how Baldwin’s life is “a bracing testimonial to being the first African-American radical to make his sexuality an integral...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:19
Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at  weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman  July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed i...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 01:03:54
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The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key i...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Actors Key Meersman and Zachary Scott in The Young One (1960)
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 58:31
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The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Rasul Mowatt and Jacinda Townsend to discuss why Martin Luther King, Jr. has been remembered and elevated to represent...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 56:50
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
The case for reparations: journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates on the nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy -- this week on Moyers & Company.

Bought by KRDP, WCUW 91.3 FM, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KFOK-LPFM, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 24:00
  • Purchases: 33
Caption: Accountable
Stephanie Robinson's newest book is Accountable: Making America as Good as its Promise. She joins us to discuss President Obama's first 100 days in...

  • Added: May 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
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Best selling author James Loewen discusses his new book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 05:22