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“Black Detroit” A People’s History of Self-Determination”-
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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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
A Vietnam Soundscape
From: WHRV
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Vietnam was the first war fought to a soundtrack, with over 4000 war-related songs written and recorded between 1965-73. The lyrics were patriotic,...

Bought by KHNS and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Freedom in the Wings: Two short plays by Tanya Barfield and Kate T. Billingsley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: John Douglas Thompson
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. It features two short plays about American Black History. In th...

Bought by KSKQ, KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 7
Greg Palast on Voter Suppression, and Buying Democracy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Greg Palast, is an investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker. His new film, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: a Tale of Billionaires and Ba...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
2016 Features Editor of THE NATION Kai Wright
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
The Racial Politics of Disney Animals
From: Bitch Media
Series: Popaganda
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Scholar Walidah Imarisha talks about the racial messages of movies like The Jungle Book.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 1
The Acceptable MLK: Speech Over Action
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
Moyers & Company Show 320: Facing the Truth: The Case for Reparations
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
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
Harlem In Revolt - Part #3 (Malcolm X unedited interview)
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X (1964), Credit: Associate Press
Malcolm X 1963: The uncut interview.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:09:59
Harlem In Revolt - Part #2
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
This is the second hour of the documentary 'Harlem In Revolt.' It was made by a young writer called Austin Clarke and looked at the state of Harlem...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Harlem In Revolt - Part #1
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
A little more than fifty years ago, 1963, was a time of great upheaval in the United States. The fight for civil rights was in full force with peop...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Lawrence and Simeon Cumberbatch
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lawrence Cumberbatch (R) tells his son, Simeon (L), how he traveled from New York City to Washington DC with Brooklyn CORE for the March on Washing...

Bought by WEZU, WRIR, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 4
The Other Half Had a Dream Too
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...

Bought by KRZA and WSLR


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Republican Party has reached its peak in the South
From: With Good Reason
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Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
Who Controls Black Women's Bodies? (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rally in support of the Ohio Prevention First Act, Credit: creative commons Flickr user ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
William's Leap For Freedom
From: Sue Zizza
Caption: Portrait of William Wells Brown, Credit: Engraving from State Historical Society of Missouri
SueMedia Productions, in conjunction with the National Audio Theatre Festivals, (NATF) is offering "William’s Leap for Freedom" for Stations to bro...

Bought by KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis, WEMU and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 52:57
  • Purchases: 21
FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for Week of March 17, 2010
From: FuseBox Radio Broadcast
Series: FuseBox Radio Broadcast w/ DJ Fusion & Jon Judah
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Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent Hip-Hop Radio & 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & J...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 03:00:47
Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Marshall had already earned a place in histor...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, WMUU-LP, WFAE, KALW and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 22
Obama's 100 Days with Stephanie Robinson co-author of Accountable
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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
Action Speaks!: What’s race got to do with it?
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks looks at contemporary issues through the lens of history by using under-appreciated dates of the twentieth-century that have changed ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WRNC-LP, WRVO Public Media, KUT-HD, WDCV and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2009
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Confronting the Warpland: Black Poets of Chicago
From: Ed Herrmann
Caption: Gwendolyn Brooks
Hear some of the great African American poets who have lived and worked in Chicago.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KZYX, WRGY, WLPR , KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2009
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 23
Black Republicans Fight for Their Political Voice
From: Will Wright
Caption: grand old party
African-American Republicans sound off on their platform while Obama runs.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:44
An interview With Charlene Mitchell
From: Amber Cortes
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An interview with radical activist Charlene Mitchell, who ran for president with the Communist Party in 1968.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2006
  • Length: 13:20
Active Voices: James Loewen- Sundown Towns
From: Chris Goldstein
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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
1997 Lorenzo Thomas - The New Age
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
black arts movement poet reads an anti war poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1