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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
As a grant-supported Cedar Commissions artist, Kashimana created a set of songs about becoming a mother. The songs are now on CD, called Phantom Cr...
- Added: Jul 05, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Kevin Washington views himself as an artist in the tradition of Pharaoh Sanders and john and Alice Coltrane, of spirituality and healing. Kevin lea...
- Added: Oct 14, 2022
- Length: 08:00
Add curator to a long list of Chaka Mkali's professional accomplishments. In the tradition of fellow Afrofuturists who have looked to the sky for i...
- Added: Jan 29, 2022
- Length: 06:16
We speak with local Bemidji State University professors on recommended books on racism, diversity, and racial justice.
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 59:53
- Purchases: 1
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
We don'y just plant the seeds so we can eat the fruit. We plant the seeds so the fruit will be there for generations.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 1
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 26:39
Aden Batar speaks with his son Jamal Batar about fleeing civil war and being among the first Somali refugee families to resettle in Utah.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 02:13
A historian and a journalist speak about the devaluation of human life past and present in America.
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 47:05
Paul Rucker's art education came from working as a janitor at the Seattle Art Museum. Now a gifted cellist, visual artist, and video producer, Paul...
Bought by WCPN and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 06:44
- Purchases: 2
Love em or hate em, they’re an ever present part of American culture. And they’re not going away anytime soon. On this edition, we talk guns…from...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 13:10
“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 22:40
In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 17:08
- Purchases: 1
More than 50 years ago, America’s most prolific composer, Duke Ellington, collaborated with bassist Charlie Mingus and drummer Max Roach to produce...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:59:01
This food-justice-related audio collage features the voices of Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, co-managers of Gardens United, a community gar...
- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 04:52
Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:04
Musician and legendary innovator, Afrika Bambaataa, discusses the origin and legacy of hip-hop. [13:35]
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 13:35
- 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
Bernard Holyfield (R) tells his friend Charles Barlow (L) about a painful memory from his childhood in the 1960s.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 02:18
- Purchases: 1
A recent book critical of Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder has raised controversial questions about our founding father. Allison Quantz has the st...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:47
