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Cord Jefferson talks about directing and writing "American Fiction" his first film!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Cord Jefferson, Credit: Dennis Gocer
Screenwriter and Director Cord Jefferson discusses his critically acclaimed film, “American Fiction” which is a satirical exploration of popular cu...

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


  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 8
2206: Inside the Writers Room: Empire + A Conversation with Virgil Williams, 2/10/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story we’ll hear from some of the writing team behind the first season of the immensely popular Fox drama series EMPIRE and later w...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Re-visit filmmaker CJ Hunt talking about his documentary The Neutral Ground
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: CJ Hunt, Credit: Paavo Hanninen
We're re-posting an interview with comedy writer and filmmaker CJ Hunt discusses his documentary The Neutral Ground which explores the struggle to ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 27:56
  • Purchases: 3
2108: The Obituary of Tunde Johnson + A Conversation with Kevin Willmott, 2/25/2021
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story, filmmakers Ali Leroi and Stanley Kalu discuss the process of bringing The Obituary of Tunde Johnson to the screen. And later...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
2034: Empire + Virgil Williams, 8/20/2020
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Caption: Virgil Williams, Credit: Austin Film Festival
This week on On Story we’ll hear from some of the writing team behind the first season of the immensely popular Fox drama series EMPIRE and later w...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
2023: John Singleton + Charles Burnett, 6/4/2020
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Caption: John Singleton, Credit: Austin Film Festival
This week on On Story, two critically and culturally acclaimed African-American directors: John Singleton and Charles Burnett. First, we look back ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Filmmaker Trey Ellis talks about his documentary True Justice
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Trey Ellis
Filmmaker Trey Ellis talks about bringing Bryan Stevenson’s work to the screen.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Shondaland Revolution (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-"Grey’s Anatomy", "Scandal", and "How to Get Away with Murder" aren’t just popular tv shows--they’re also groundbreaking. Michaela Meyer says the ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCNY, KXCV, WRGY, WTJU and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 9
The Shondaland Revolution (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-"Grey’s Anatomy", "Scandal", and "How to Get Away with Murder" aren’t just popular tv shows--they’re also groundbreaking. Michaela Meyer says the ...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
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
An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, WLPR , KUHF, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by WCNY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
African American Attitudes Towards Gun Ownership
From: Kenneth Flowe
Caption: New York City Young Gun, Credit: Photo taken by George Samuals 1984
This is a series of interviews designed to showcase various attitudes held in the African American Community about Gun Ownership in General, and Co...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 16:05
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
Ghosts, Dogs, and the Law: On Constructing Criminality and Negating Persons
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our program is a conversation with Colin Dayan, author most recently of two lauded books, With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White Dog....

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 58:05
The Life of Arthur Ashe (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Bogaerts, Rob / Anefo – Nationaal Archief Fotocollectie Anefo Item number 927-7839
Though he first emerged in the public consciousness as a world-class athlete, Arthur Ashe’s subsequent contributions as an author, activist, humani...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
Stars for Freedom
From: With Good Reason
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The little-known story of how black actors and entertainers in Hollywood contributed their money, connections, and fame to aid the civil rights mov...

Bought by WLPR , WNSB, Morehead State Public Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:34
  • Purchases: 10
Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence and Mr. Flowe
From: Kenneth Flowe
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"Look out for some more hits." Music Producer Amen-Ra sat down with me for a telephone interview and it turns out he aint finished yet!

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:29
A Conversation with Filmmaker, Pratibha Parmar
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Pratibha Parmar discusses making the recent documentary about an iconic American writer, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which can be seen on the Am...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 3
Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in Harlem. It is part of The New York City Public...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Eric Deggans - 'Race Baiter'
From: Mark Hayes
Series: Passing Notes
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Media and TV critic for the Tampa Bay Times explains how the media wields dangerous words to divide a nation in his new book, 'Race-Baiter.'

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 1
Equal Time: The Networks and the Civil Rights Movement
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How the evening news shaped attitudes about race relations during the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by KALW, WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, WJAB and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
THESE AMAZING SHADOWS -- Filmmakers Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton on their documentary
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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THESE AMAZING SHADOWS -- Filmmakers Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton talk The National Film Registry, censorship, and THE BIRTH OF A NATION.

  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 19:25
Spotlight: Miles Davis Vol. 1
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Miles Davis, Credit: Columbia Records
This is a one hour special history and music of Jazz legend "Miles Davis", hosted by Howard Burchette.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WMOT, Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:02
  • Purchases: 6