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No Argument Here
From: With Good Reason
Caption: James Farmer, Credit: Library of Congress
A college professor is following the footsteps of a civil rights icon James Farmer, by training his students in the art of debate. Lydia Wilson, ...

Bought by KUAC, WJAB, WCSU-FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
How Philosophy Can Save Your Life
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Book Cover
Changing our place in the world, through philosophy and math skills.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)
From: Nancy Solomon
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This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...

Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 40
More Than A Teacher
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A woman who teaches English in African refugee camps finds her students sometimes need more than an English lesson.

Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, and KRUA


  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 3
Black and African
From: Making Contact
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African immigrants are the fastest growing segment of the black population in the U.S. On this edition, we meet Mauton Akran, a Nigerian immigrant ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, XRAY.fm, WCSU-FM, and WNCU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 12. Lincoln's Dilemma: Saving the Union or Freeing the Slaves?
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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The NY City Draft Riots & The Battle of Ft. Wagner - July 1863

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 11. Signs of War: the Abolitionist Split
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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John Brown, Frederick Douglass & Harper's Ferry

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 10. First-Class Citizenship
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Catherine "Katie" Ferguson, the Jennings Family, and the Battle for Full First-Class Citizenship (1830-1854)

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 9. Splits and Rifts
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Ruggles, Douglass and the Rise of the Abolitionist and Back to Africa Movements, & the Underground Railroad (1830-1854)

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 8. Self-Determination
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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The Rise of the Black Church, the Black Press and the Fight for Education (1783-1830)

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 7. The Rebellion Within the Rebellion
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Huddy and Tye (1775-1783)

Bought by WNYC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 6. The Struggle Continues
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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More Revolts, "Conspiracies," and Runaways (1712-1775)

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 5. Early Slave Resistance
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Slave revolts & resistance: New England / New York 1712, etc.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 3. Survival
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Eleven Africans and the Survival of the New Netherlands Colony (1624-1664)

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 2. Prequel: Early Contacts
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Juan "Jan" Rodrigues, the First Free African in the Hudson Valley (1612-1614)

Bought by WRPI and WNYC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Booker T Washington National Monument Hardy Virginia
From: Patricia Lawrence
Series: 400 Years of History across Virginia
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We are exploring the Booker T Washington National Monument in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2007
  • Length: 12:39
Language Arts
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Series: Passionate Citizens
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Anya Sippen profiles Language Arts, a Durham-based hip-hop group

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Black Classical Masters: Moses Hogan series
From: David Person
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Series of programs featuring the music and words of arranger Moses Hogan

  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 19:24
Kansas City Central Debate: Rules of the Game
From: KCUR
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Kansas City Central's debate squad is shaking up the national circuit, by rapping their arguments to music, and making the case that the activity i...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2006
  • Length: 20:51
The Atlanta Fire of 1917
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Remembering the Atlanta Fire of 1917

  • Added: Jul 16, 2006
  • Length: 06:15
A Prohibition
From: Terin Mayer
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Three students reflect on what it means to be "Black" at Carleton College

Bought by WTIP, KRZA, KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2005
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 13
Julian Bond on Race in America
From: With Good Reason
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Julian Bond, chair of the NAACP, whose grandfather was born into slavery, candidly talks about race in America fifty years after the Brown v. Board...

Bought by WTJU, WRPI, and WNCU


  • Added: May 20, 2005
  • Length: 29:13
  • Purchases: 3
What's the Word? Poet Michael S. Harper on the Poet's Art
From: Modern Language Association
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Michael S. Harper talks about what he teaches in his poetry classes and reads some his favorite poems.

Bought by WLIW, KUER, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 8
School Front Office
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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You're going to the Principal's office. But don't worry. There's a nice lady down there

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KSJD, PRX Remix, KCUR, and KUHB


  • Added: Jan 06, 2004
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 5
The '63 March: Going to D.C.
From: WGBH Radio Boston
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This is the first in a five-part radio series focusing on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The leaders demanded an end to segreg...

Bought by Louisville Public Media, KUT, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WEAA, WJAB and more


  • Added: Sep 30, 2003
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 7