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HOUR ONE: "Docupoetry" - Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political u...
- Added: Jan 12, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
Student activists in York, Pennsylvania organized a silent protest when hundreds of books were banned from their classrooms, paving the way for las...
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 28:10
HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," dominated the global box office. This hour, a literary ta...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "The Year Of Return" - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
In this moment of radical transformation, shifting the societal pronoun from “me, me, me” to “we” may be the single most transformational pivot we ...
- Added: Mar 17, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
Renowned author Yaa Gyasi, whose novel Homegoing won the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book and the Pen/Hemingwa...
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 01:21:49
Every day across America we deal with the ugliness from our past. From 1600 to today, racism rears its ugly head. Every time we feel we’ve made pro...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "In Search Of Real Food...
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 01:58:57
HOUR ONE: "Breaking The Chains" - You can trace a direct line from slavery to the mass incarceration of Black men. Should we defund the police? How...
- Added: Jun 19, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and ...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
We talk with social justice scholar Monique Morris about her new book, Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brow...
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 59:01
One spring day in 1965, a waiter in Greenwood, Mississippi gave an interview for an NBC television documentary. What he said has made him an unlike...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: Sep 22, 2016
- Length: 36:08
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious visits with Michael Gene Sullivan, the resident playwright, director and a principal actor in "2015: Freedomland," a political and th...
- Added: Jul 14, 2015
- Length: 29:01
One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball’s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pasti...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 21:01
- Purchases: 1
Some call it a new civil rights movement. Others simply call it “black lives matter”. We hear a conversation about waging strategic non-violence be...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Dr David E. Kirkland, Transforming the world with more inclusive education methods
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 28:57
A Radio Theatre piece about the creation and performance of one of America's most controversial songs.
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 13:22
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
In the final episode, the NAACP begins efforts to fight the death sentences handed down in Helena, led in part by Scipio Africanus Jones, the leadi...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Jan 06, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
In the mid 1970s, three teenage brothers from Detroit formed a band. That’s not exactly an unusual story. Motown history is full of bands that made...
Bought by WDBM, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Delta College Public Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 3
Rabbi Neil Blumofe joins KUT host Rebecca McInroy along with a live jazz sextet for an evening of discussion and live music to explore the unique r...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 29:59
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 54:15
