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Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
From: National Endowment for the Arts
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An interview with the co-directors of the documentary Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes. The interview paints a comprehensive picture of Max Roach's...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:01
Christine Yoo: 26.2 To Life
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Christine Yoo
For many of us, the holiday season presents an opportunity to spend some time thinking about people less fortunate than ourselves. This week on Sea...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Defenseless: Daniel Medwed on Incarcerated Innocents
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Medwed
Many followers of the highly publicized Adnan Syed case were delighted to see an innocent man set free after over two decades behind bars. But the ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Rod Graham: The Fight Over Affirmative Action
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
Back in 2016 the US Supreme Court established that the University of Texas could continue to consider race as a factor in admissions, in order to e...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rob Schofield: Carolina In My Mind
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rob Schofield
Come election season, some of us who live in solidly “blue” states like California or New York take our activist selves on the road to so-called “s...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Stoehr on Critical Race Theory Pt. 2
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Stoehr
It’s right in the Declaration of Independence that everyone is created equal. So why is an entire political party so scared of talking critically a...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Bay Area is diverse. Its elected officials are mostly white
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most diverse in the U.S., but that diversity is rarely seen in the make-up of the region's political leade...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:27
Prisonscape: The View from Any Window
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is Brett Story, author of Pison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America and award-winning filmmaker of The Prison in Twelv...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rod Graham: Color-Consciousness Not Colorblindness
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
Many of us grew up under the impression that “colorblindness,” or pretending not to see racial differences was virtuous. An important contribution ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Liz King: Civil Rights In Our Public Schools
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Liz King
One front on which the fight for racial justice is being waged is in the area of education. We have been led to believe that education is the great...

Bought by WFHB and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Castle Redmond: Hope For Racial Justice
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Castle Redmond
In his book "Lies My Teacher Told Me," James Loewen writes that "race is the sharpest and deepest division in American life." We recognize the peac...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Maurice Plaines on America’s Epidemic of Racism
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Maurice Plaines
This has been a difficult stretch for the country with millions sick, out of work, or simply stuck at home. But the horrific murder of George Floyd...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Police Psychological Screening with Dr. Richard Zonderman- Miami Dade College School of Justice Police Academy, Formerly CIA Washington D.C.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Police Psychological Screening with Dr. Richard Zonderman- Miami Dade College School of Justice Police Academy, Formerly CIA(Central Intelligence A...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
Behind the Scenes with the documentary Personal Statement
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Christine Rodriguez celebrates with a student she is helping apply to college, Credit: Juliane Dressner
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates director Kyle Donnelly
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kyle Donnelly
Director Kyle Donnelly sees theater as interpretive history.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 26:59
Facing Down the Past: The White South Shakes Its Whip
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan, September 24, 1957., Credit: Will Counts Collection: Indiana University Archives
2017 was the 60th anniversary of the stand-off between Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and desegregation at Little Rock Central High School . Today ...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
A Curse Upon the Nation (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
BHM Special: A Curse Upon the Nation (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WUGA (part of GPB), Georgia Public Broadcasting, WNSB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 6
BHM Special: A Curse Upon the Nation (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism

Bought by WLPR , KPSQ-LP, WLPR , WNSB, and WVAS


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
A Curse Upon the Nation (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: :30
A Curse Upon the Nation (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCWP, WRGY, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 6
A Curse Upon the Nation (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WXDU, KWMR, WNSB and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 15
The Tragic Birth of Black Populism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today, we’ll take a look at the development and destruction of Black Populism in the post-bellum South, discovering the strategies, institutions, a...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Sound of Resistance: Protest or Pose
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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We’ll look at three songs: “Strange Fruit” sung by Billie Holiday (and recently sampled by Kanye West); “We Almost Lost Detroit” by Gill Scott Hero...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 55:38
  • Purchases: 2
Lynchings on Loop: How Terror Goes Viral
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anti-lynching banner flew outside NAACP headquarters in midtown Manhattan from the early 1900s until 1938. , Credit: (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/COURTESY OF THE NAACP)
For “Lynchings on Loop” Courtney Baker, author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death joins us to talk about ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1