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Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On Sept. 27 and 28, the most notable poets of our time will gather in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower ...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, KXCV, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
400 Years After 1619 (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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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
Charles Gaines on Philosophy and Politics in Conceptual Art
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Artist Charles Gaines has been delving into philosophy, abstraction and mathematics to address politics and race since the 1970s. In August 2019, G...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2019
  • Length: 19:29
Poetic Justice (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state-- ...

Bought by WSGE, KUHF, Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, and KXCV


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Poetic Justice (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state--...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KMUN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KLCC, KUHF and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 15
Poetic Justice (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state-- ...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WFHB, WTJU, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Alabama Had No Compassion Then. Now None for Women?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "The Arc of the moral universe is long but it moves toward justice."., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry today asks if Alabama's long history of lack of compassion toward people of color now appears again in their lack of...

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: :54
American Terrorism (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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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, St. Louis Public Radio, WMMT, WCNY, WGTE Public Media and more


  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 19
American Terrorism (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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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
Muggles Abroad (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-An English professor who loves the Harry Potter books brings a few lucky students each year to London to visit the magical sites in the fantasy se...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 9
Poetry That Heals (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Irène Mathieu is a doctor and a poet who says both science and poetry use language that helps her understand deeper truths about the human conditi...

Bought by WCNY, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KALW, KUNM, KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 18
Poetry That Heals (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Irène Mathieu is a doctor and a poet who says both science and poetry use language that helps her understand deeper truths about the human condit...

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


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Unfreedom (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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 WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Unfreedom (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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
Centering Black Film: From Spike Lee to Josephine Baker
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Josephine Baker, circa 1926. Photograph by George Hoyningen-Huene
Today’s program begins with the institutional role of Indiana University's Black Film Center/Archive within a school where the black student popul...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
1619: Past and Present (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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
1619: Past and Present (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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
Evicted!
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: A sofa and mattresses on the street in front of an apartment building. "Sofa Free, and throw in 2 box springs", Credit: walknboston is licensed under CC by 2.0.
There’s an eviction crisis in the United States, and it’s disproportionately affecting communities of color.

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


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Evicted!
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: A sofa and mattresses on the street in front of an apartment building. "Sofa Free, and throw in 2 box springs", Credit: walknboston is licensed under CC by 2.0.
There's an eviction crisis in the United States, and it's disproportionately affecting communities of color.

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


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 13
Pilgrimage to Montgomery (52 minutes)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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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
Pilgrimage to Montgomery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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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 s...

Bought by KVSC, WVAS, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
1619: Past and Present
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-- Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should commemorate 1619 and what’s at stake when we ignore it. -- Richard Chew explains how a British ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGTE Public Media, WRKF, WCSU-FM, and KWTF community radio for Sonoma County


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 51:23
  • Purchases: 5
Invisible Founders (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. -Justin Reid tell...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WGTE Public Media, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRKF, Morehead State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 53:45
  • Purchases: 12
Invisible Founders (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. They were there to ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Morehead State Public Radio, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
Invisible Founders (28:50)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-Justin Reid tells the story of how he set out to find the plantation where his great-great grandfather was enslaved, and what he found there. -Hi...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KMUD, and KKRN


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3