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Unveiling The Ancestors
From: Anne Hoffman
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Welcome to “Unveiling the Ancestors,” a radio special that sheds light on who we are today by looking at WHO came before us. I'm your host, Anne Ho...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2023
  • Length: 53:10
The Almost Astronaut
From: Joe Richman
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The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.

  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 16:36
National Writers Series: Alvin Hall
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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WDET's Jerome Vaughn talks with financial advisor and author Alvin Hall.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
10-11: From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like?, 2/22/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dedan Gills and Belvie Rooks
What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descenda...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
StoryCorps Griot: Monica Mickle and Rev. Harry Blake
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Rev. Harry Blake came to StoryCorps to speak with his daughter Monica Mickle about how his experiences growing up the son of a sharecropper in Loui...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:44
American Veteran: This Black World War II aviator first experienced racial integration in a POW camp
From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran
Caption: Lt. Colonel (Ret.) Harold Brown, member of World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen., Credit: Ronan Killeen
When he was 11 years old, Harold Brown decided he wanted to be a pilot. He flew 30 missions during World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the ...

Bought by KTEP, WTIP, KUT, Texas Public Radio, WVTF and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
731: Empathy For Monsters / 732: Growing Justice, 10/8/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Empathy For Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
StoryCorps Griot: Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper at their StoryCorps interview in San Diego, CA on May 11, 2022., Credit: StoryCorps.
Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper sit down at StoryCorps to remember their dad and his commitment to celebrating Juneteenth.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
Escaping The Narcissism of The American Dream
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Tiffanie Drayton, Credit: © Marcus Duncan 2021
Next, a conversation with Tiffanie Drayton, author of the new book Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of The American Dream. Drayton e...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KVSC


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Harold Lucas, Jr., D'Lorah Butts-Lucas, and Darryll Lucas
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: D’Lorah Butts-Lucas, Harold Lucas, Jr. and Darryll Lucas at their StoryCorps interview in Daytona Beach, Florida on March 21, 2022., Credit: Jarrod Sport for StoryCorps.
Harold Lucas, Jr. sits down with his daughter, D’Lorah Butts-Lucas, to remember seeing Jackie Robinson train to become the first Black player in M...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
675: Taking Pop Seriously / 676: African Cities Of The Future, 3/26/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer at their StoryCorps interview in Saint Clair Shores, MI, and Sparks, NV, on Feb. 6, 2022. , Credit: By StoryCorps
Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
667: Growing Justice / 668: Everything Is Exhausting, 2/26/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "Everything is Exhaus...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
Behind the Sheet
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A story of bravery in the face of inhuman treatment.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, WPCA-LP, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 17
Episode 37: What Gets Told
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 26:16
StoryCorps Griot: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Willie Edwards Jr. died in 1957. He was killed by Klansmen who told him to either jump off a bridge or be shot., Credit: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
GN_3.33_National Freedom Day
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
February 1st is National Freedom Day, made into a holiday due to one man's efforts.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.56_Moving Black History 101
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The extent of Black history is vast, but it is not talked about nearly enough. A social studies teacher from Detroit is changing that by creating a...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Clara Jean Ester
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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72-year-old Clara Jean Ester remembers bearing witness to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech in 1968, and rushing to his side the next day w...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
The Lisa Show Martin Luther King Jr. Day Special - “I Have a Dream” Speech Witness, Representation in Media, Being Anti-Racist
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Lisa Show
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Topic 1 - Witness of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech; Topic 2 - Representation in Media; Topic 3 - Being Anti-Racist

Bought by KTXK, Radio Catskill, WLPR , WCPN, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 52:19
  • Purchases: 6
50 Years of In Black America with John L. Hanson Jr.
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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For 50 years the nationally syndicated radio show, In Black America has given voice to people of color in America, and John L. Hanson Jr. has hoste...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 34:07
On Passing
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 32:46
  • Purchases: 1
Talking About Race and Racism
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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How should we talk about race and racism in America when the divide between Black and white can be so vast?

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:08:18
EP138 Excello Records' Two Slims: Slim Harpo & Lightnin' Slim
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Excello Records was Nashville's first Blues label

  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:38