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Caption: Isabel Wilkerson, Credit: Joe Henson
Author and 2015 National Humanities Medalist Isabel Wilkerson discusses her acclaimed first book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” and the profound impac...

Bought by KMUN, WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KECG, KZUM and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 7
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James McBride’s newest book is THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them. As the s...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 10:05
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Anne-Marie Oomen talks with writer Geraldine Brooks.

Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: C. Brian Williams, Credit: Jim Saah
Step Artist and Producer and 2022 National Heritage Fellow C. Brian Williams discusses the rich cultural history of stepping and his work bringing ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed, Credit: Naima Wolfe
Director of Communications for the Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society in Athens Ohio Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed talks about repurposing a vacan...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WSLR, RADIOLEX, KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
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Today in part one of a two-part episode, Dr. Lewis discusses their experiences in academia. Dr. Moten is a Black Feminist Historian who specializes...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 31:17
Caption: Rhiannon Giddens, Credit: Ebru Yildiz
In this 2021 interview, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artistic director of Silkroad Rhiannon Giddens talks about the Black roots of ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, New England Public Media, WMPG, RADIOLEX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Liberty  & Justice For Some: Two Centuries of Independent Black Leaders & Political Movements
Here’s a seemingly inexplicable historical event: How did the anti-slavery Republican party take the White House in 1861, only six years after its ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 32:00
Caption: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Credit: Syreeta McFadden
A Conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge whose historical novel Libertie explores the possibilities and limitations for 19th century Black women.

Bought by WMPG and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Inside the Schuyler Mansion, Credit: Courtesy of Schuyler Mansion Historical Site
Heidi Hill and Jessie Serfilippi from the Schuyler Mansion State Historical Site join us to share the stories behind the stories about the Schuyler...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 36:21
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A Monday Music Special produced for Montana Public Radio featuring conversation with author Richard Manning. The interview focuses on his most rece...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 30:04
  • Purchases: 2
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A Monday Music Special produced for Montana Public Radio featuring conversation with author Richard Manning. The interview focuses on his most rece...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 2
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On this program we talk with Amde Hamilton of the Watts Prophets, who reads poems from his book Me Today, You Tomorrow, and recounts how out of the...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:29
Caption: Nate Powell
Nate Powell discusses the art of cartooning the National Book Award-winning trilogy March.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 27:59
Caption: Jackie Robinson, Credit: Janeb13 courtesy of Pixabay
Explore the richness and depth of Kansas City’s black history from sports and jazz to food and social advancement on World Footprints with Ian and ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2020
  • Length: 42:34
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The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wom...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, Morehead State Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, Vermont Public, WHYY and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 15
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The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wome...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WLIW, KMUN, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
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-What did the process of legal desegregation look like in everyday life and culture? Jennifer Ritterhouse shares the story of Sarah Patton “Pattie...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WLIW, KRDP and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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-In late August 1619, 20 or more enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia at what’s now called Fort Monroe. They were the first Africans documented in...

Bought by WVAS, Kansas Public Radio, KWMR, KVSC, KRDP and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 12
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-In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina. The killings still reverberates i...

Bought by WNCU, KWMU St. Louis, WMMT, WCNY, WGTE Public Media and more


  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 19
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-In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina. The killings still reverberates i...

Bought by KRZA, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 12
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- Children who interact in some way with the justice system—even if it’s just living near a justice system facility—have worse health and education...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, KRDP, WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
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- Over 400 years ago, in 1619, the first Africans arrived in English-speaking North America. Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should comme...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
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-Over 400 years ago, in 1619, the first Africans arrived in English-speaking North America. Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should commem...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WJCT, KRDP, WUGA (part of GPB), KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
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-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, Morehead State Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 51:48
  • Purchases: 4