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A Conversation with Dave Dennis
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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Freedom Rider, Dave Dennis, never thought about getting involved in the Civil Rights Movement but he did want a date with a pretty young lady.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:31:59
A Conversation with Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:23:34
A Conversation with Ruby Bridges
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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The little girl who went to school with federal marshals as escorts has something to say about what she went through and what we are going through ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:02:02
Constant Wonder - MLK Day Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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We all know of Martin Luther King Jr.'s major contribution to the discourse about non-violence. Who planted the seeds of his thinking? It turns out...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, WKMS, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Apple Seed - MLK Special Episode - I Shall Not Be Moved
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Join us today as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and we share stories and songs, bringing focus to the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 7
The Story of John Lobon and the Syracuse 8
From: Michael Jackson
Series: The Game Before the Money
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In 1970, African American athletes took a stand against racial discrimination and other issues regarding the Syracuse University football team. The...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 50:58
Amistad
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Oil painting of La Amistad off the coast of Long Island , Credit: Courtesy of the New Haven Museum
This week on World Ocean Radio: part four of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this episode we discuss the history of La Amis...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 05:30
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KOSU and KVSC


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
UpFront Soul #2020.03 - January 20-26, 2020 - Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This week, we honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We'll hear excerpts of his sermons, speeches, and interviews, along with funk,...

Bought by Prairie Public, KHNS, WOUB, WLPR , Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 8
WoodSongs 952: Smithsonian Folkways Celebration
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: “The American Songster” Dom Flemons on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon honors one of the most important legacy’s in all of recorded music… Smit...

Bought by KKRN, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUCO, Spokane Public Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 23
RDD: Honoring Cliff
From: WGTE Public Media
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Clifford Murphy, one of Toledo's Jazz Icons known for playing in his jazz group, The Murphy's and his Jazz Cafe, Murphy's Place, passed away over t...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 06:10
StoryCorps: Natalie Guice Adams and Eli Brown
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Natalie Guice Adams and Eli Brown at their at their StoryCorps interview in Birmingham, AL on October 2, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Former classmates Natalie Guice Adams and Eli Brown reflect for the first time on life after court-ordered desegregation.

Bought by WDBM and WOUB


  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 2
Port Authority: Race, Labor, and Logistics on the Docks
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The docks of San Francisco and Durban, South Africa – two essential locations where a commitment to black internationalism and leftist politics spa...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
UpFront Soul #2019.28-July 15-21
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Abdullah Ibrahim
We'll celebrate the 101st anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth with two hours of music from the South African anti-apartheid freedom movement. We'...

Bought by KSFR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHNS, KZUM, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 8
From Juneteenth to Reparations: The Freedom Promise of Unfinished Resolve
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the Unite...

Bought by WFHB, Raven Radio, WXDU, RADIOLEX, KISU and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 14
StoryCorps: David Wilson and Robert Compton
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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David Wilson and his husband Rob Compton, one of the first legally married same-sex couples in the US, talk about how they met and reflect on the s...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
UpFront Soul #2019.13 - April 1-7 - In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This week, we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, and mourn his death on the anniversary of his assassination (4/4/68). We'll hear from...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, WOMR, WLPR , KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 6
Celebrating Black History Month with Poet Gwendolyn Brooks
From: New Letters on the Air
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The late Gwendolyn Brooks shaped countless writers following her long poetic career. This episode looks back on her life as the first African-Amer...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WDCB, WNMU-FM, KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Why is Deerfield (Still) So White?
From: Amy Roost
Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 14:55
StoryCorps: Keith Sims and Melvin Pender
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Melvin Pender (right) with his friend, Keith Sims, at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta last month.
During the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, many black athletes were called to protest racial inequality. Not all were able to do so. That was the case f...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
1619, Past and Present (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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 Britis...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 10
1619, Past and Present (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Nearly 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, WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Race & The Media: 50 Years After the Kerner Report
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Original collage art by Damon Davis
Narratives around people of color added fire to the social unrest of the late 1960s. In this episode of Generation Justice, we look at the Kerner R...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 45:27
Assignment: Memphis
From: Drew Darling
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The plot that killed the dream. The Who, What, Where, How and Why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated.

Bought by WLPR and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
February 26, 2018
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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William Hosea and Roberta Radovich welcome Liz Mitchell and Dr. Charlie Nelms

  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 56:09