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Black Indianapolis Series

From: Deqah Hussein-Wetzel
Series: Black Indianapolis Series

This two-part series on African American history in Indianapolis, IN, takes you to Indiana Avenue—a once vibrant Black corridor with homes, restaur...

Building Back Black Wall Street

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021

Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW

Dawn Powell

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW

CHAOS meets CONTROL at Burning Man

From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man

1996 was a turning point for Burning Man. Two people were run over in their tents. And another person died in a head-on collision.

The Whistleblower: Truth, Dissent and the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg

From: The GroundTruth Project

Caption: The Whistleblower, Credit: The Ground Truth Project

To mark the passing of Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers, the GroundTruth Project presents a special one hour program that traces the path o...

Bought by Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, WORT, KOSU and more

The End of Smallpox

From: Radio Diaries

Caption: Rahima Banu and her mother in 1975, Credit: Daniel Tarantola/WHO

Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

The Almost Astronaut

From: Joe Richman

The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.

Return, Rebury, Repatriate

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

"The Vampire Project"

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

Can anti-racist scientists create racist science?

Bought by KZYX

Keepers of the Flame

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.

Origin Stories

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

How race was invented to support racism.

EP223 Lightnin' Slim

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Otis Hicks was a somewhat unsung Louisiana blues man who was an inspiration to another Louisianan who would one day become world famous!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WLPR

EP221 Janis and Jorma 1964

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

An Historic early recording of Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonen

Bought by WLPR

Like a Comet Streaking Across the Sky: The Investigative Journalism of Eva Valesh

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast

In the late 1880s, a young journalist named Eva Valesh went undercover in Minneapolis to report on the lives of working women for the St. Paul Glo...

EP220 Joe "Guitar" Hughes

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

A great Blues musician who deserves recognition for his contribution to the genre.

Bought by WLPR

EP209 Charlie Musselwhite "Mississippi Son"

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Charlie Musselwhite has been playing the blues for over 60 years. His latest project takes him back to his roots in Mississippi.

Bought by WLPR and WLPR

Music of the Nuclear Age

From: David Dunaway

Today's headlines include threats of nuclear war in Ukraine and the possibility of contamination from bombing off Ukraine's nuclear power plant. Th...

Bought by Prairie Public and KVCR

EP206 Jessie Mae Hemphill

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).

Bought by WLPR

EP205 A.C. Reed

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.

Bought by WLPR

Viva Brother Nagi from Kerning Cultures

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

The Big Ponder #38: Cartoons

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Have you ever heard of the cartoonist Oliver Harrington? Probably not, but the artist played an instrumental role in German-American history. From ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City