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Our show is about William Monroe Trotter, owner and editor of the Boston Guardian from 1901 to 1934, and a radical race-first political agitator. K...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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In her book, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Kellie Carter Jackson contends that the history of abolitionism, ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
Caption: Actors Key Meersman and Zachary Scott in The Young One (1960)
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 58:31
Caption: Kevin Alexander Gray
Pamela Spoto, educator and Peace and Justice advocate, co-hosts again. Our guest is Kevin Alexander Gray. He is is a civil rights organizer and a...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: May 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]

Bought by WNJR and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 2
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Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:33
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Arrested in Nashville, 1960 , Credit: www.blackpast.com
An interview with James Lawson, the chief architect of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, and confidant to Martin Luther King. Lawson touches on every...

  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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Best selling author James Loewen discusses his new book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 05:22