Date Pegs » Black History Month

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"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...

Bought by WFYI, WCQS, Northstate Public Radio, KERA, Essential Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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From The Columbia University Institute For Religion, Culture and Public Life, and the Luce Group, an exploration in words and music of how music, r...

Bought by WBEZ, WCPN, WSKG, KWMR-FM, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Memorialized in a Bob Dylan song and an Academy Award nominated Denzel Washington film, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a successful prize fighter, wh...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRPI, KFAI, KQED, Capital Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 18
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Two views of modern America through a visionary lens.

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, KUT-HD, WBEZ, KMUN, KRCB and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: White students protest integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. , Credit: Photograph by Flip Schulke/CORBIS
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Prime Time Radio's Black History Month Special: Zydeco Nation.

Bought by WNPR, KRCB, KWMR-FM, KZYX, KFAI and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 01:02:45
  • Purchases: 16
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Discover the words and wisdom of an unsung hero of the Civil Rights movement who changed the course of American history.

Bought by WUGA, WUIS, KBBI, WCQS, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2010
  • Length: 00:58:23
  • Purchases: 51
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An American classic about life in Harlem in the 1960's.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUT, KMUN, KKRN, Nevada Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 7
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The unlikely story of Civil Rights and the Space Program.

Bought by WXXI, WUIS, WLRN, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KFAI and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:18
  • Purchases: 33
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This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...

Bought by WFPL News, WEKU, Essential Public Radio, KALW, KERA and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 29
Caption: Alfre Woodard
From The Kitchen Sisters and PRX, a Black History Month Special: "Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs," with host, Gol...

Bought by WSKG, KOSU, Vermont Public Radio, WEKU, WMMT and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2009
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 59
Caption: Portrait of William Wells Brown, Credit: Engraving from State Historical Society of Missouri
SueMedia Productions, in conjunction with the National Audio Theatre Festivals, (NATF) is offering "William’s Leap for Freedom" for Stations to bro...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KUT, WCPN, WRPI, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 00:52:57
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Langston Hughes in 1939 , Credit: Library of Congress
Langston Hughes, an enduring icon of the Harlem Renaissance, is best-known for his written work, which wedded his fierce dedication to social justi...

Bought by WNIN, KHNS, KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WRPI


  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its schools rather than integrate. The closures lasted for five years, and the people who were denie...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Little Freddie King, Credit: Barry Yeoman
Prime Time Radio presents "Truckin' My Blues Away," a music-rich documentary that profiles four Southern bluesmen and the folklorist who is working...

Bought by WUMB, KVSC, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWIT, KRCB and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:23
  • Purchases: 17
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Through story and song, author Russell Goings has adapted his epic poem “The Children of Children Keep Coming” into an hour-long spoken word perfor...

Bought by Vermont Public Radio, WYSO, KRCB, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUMD and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2010
  • Length: 00:51:01
  • Purchases: 12
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One-hour music intensive radio documentary about Sly & the Family Stone, their music, their turbulent history, and the indelible marks they left be...

Bought by KAZU, KFAI, WCPN, WNCU, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 15, 2007
  • Length: 00:59:05
  • Purchases: 28
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Youth voices share their perspectives on Black masculinity.

Bought by WEAA, New Hampshire Public Radio, WYSO, WCPN, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2008
  • Length: 00:52:33
  • Purchases: 18
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For generations, African American orators have been demanding justice and equality, reminding America to make good on its founding principles of de...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, WFPL News, WRVO, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:59
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Ruby Elzy, 1937
Ruby Elzy was one of George Gershwin's hand picked leads for the original production of Porgy and Bess. Hailing from the small Mississippi town of...

Bought by WTIP, KFAI, WRPI, KUHF, KRCB and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 00:58:59
  • Purchases: 19
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An hour-long program featuring performances of songs with lyrics by author Langston Hughes, including recordings by Nina Simone, June Christy, Jame...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WUIS, KFAI, WEAA, and WPTC


  • Added: Jan 22, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:58
  • Purchases: 5
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A one-hour program of jazz music, exploring the connection between jazz and civil rights in 20th-century America. Perfect for Black History Month (...

Bought by KHNS, KREV-LP, WEAA, and WUCF


  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 00:58:59
  • Purchases: 4
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Bought by WUCF, Kansas Public Radio, Northstate Public Radio, WVAS, Mississippi Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 00:58:58
  • Purchases: 6
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Writer and Poet Kwame Dawes explores HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, produced by Outer Voices, in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, WLRN, KGLT and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 00:53:00
  • Purchases: 20
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In 1912, the state of Maine evicted a mixed-race community from Malaga Island. It was an act of racism, eugenics, and political retribution. The ev...

Bought by WNIJ, KFAI, WRVO, KCUR, KWIT and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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A documentary exploring sickle cell disease and an extraordinary doctor who is fighting the illness in Philadelphia and West Africa.

Bought by KUNM, KUNM, KWIT, WCPN, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2008
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Barack Obama-The Campaign for President

Bought by KUCB, KAXE, WMNF, KRCB, KACU and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 00:54:17
  • Purchases: 23
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Isabel Wilkerson is the epic tale teller of the Great Migration of Southern black people that remade America — sound, substance and spirit — in the...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, 90.5 WSNC, WSKG, WRPI, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Action Speaks looks at contemporary issues through the lens of history by using under-appreciated dates of the twentieth-century that have changed ...

Bought by KFAI, WRNC-LP, WRVO, KUT-HD, WDCV and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2009
  • Length: 00:58:58
  • Purchases: 6
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The character of a country, and its President, are revealed -- as a traumatic war winds down, and eerie events presage Abraham Lincoln's own end...

Bought by KUNM, KWIT, North Country Public Radio, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRPI and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2008
  • Length: 00:58:23
  • Purchases: 12
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Master drummer Max Roach recounts his own extraordinary journey, from the era of the Jim Crow south to the creation of modern jazz, from the civil ...

Bought by KFAI, KZYX, WEAA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2007
  • Length: 00:53:59
  • Purchases: 33
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"Can Your Hear Me?" is an hour-long audio documentary exploring the history of conflict and coalition between Blacks and Jews in America.

Bought by WUIS, PRX to iTunes, KWMR-FM, WMUB, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Coretta Scott King, Credit: NNDB
Equal Time Series Host Martha Burk explores the life of Coretta Scott King with biographer Barbara Reynolds, a founding editor of USA Today. Burk...

Bought by KAZU


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 00:56:48
  • Purchases: 1
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"a rich tapestry of music, interviews and sound" - Phil Corriveau, Wisconsin Public Radio

Bought by KREV-LP, KVMR, WUCF, WFIU, WNCU and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2006
  • Length: 00:58:50
  • Purchases: 43
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A profile of Governor Deval Patrick, his history making election and his place in the new politics of race nationally.

Bought by KFAI, WCPN, KUT-HD, WFIU, WNPR and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2007
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A conversational profile of Ralph Bunche - a sometimes overlooked African-American who excelled in the world of diplomacy. Bunche negotiated tire...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KFAI, WNYC and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 00:58:54
  • Purchases: 20
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Explorations on the non-violence philosophies shared by King and Gandhi

Bought by KERA, KREV-LP, KBBI, KVNF, Red River Radio Network and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2007
  • Length: 00:59:02
  • Purchases: 41
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One hour documentary, narrated by Danny Glover, that explores the making of an American myth.

Bought by KUHF, KWIT, WEKU, WGBH Radio Boston, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:03:13
  • Purchases: 14
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The story of "Amazing Grace"- a piece of music that has an extraordinary impact on American history.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, North Country Public Radio, WRVO, and WCPN


  • Added: Dec 04, 2008
  • Length: 00:50:34
  • Purchases: 4
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Dramatization - largest mass-escape of slaves in Amer history - PROMOS ATTACHED

Bought by KFAI, PRX to iTunes, WRPI, KGOU, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2004
  • Length: 00:54:10
  • Purchases: 27
Caption: Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder, Credit: Kim Gottlieb-Walker
The Midnight Ravers look at the evolution of reggae music and the influence of African-American culture on it in general and on Bob Marley, specifi...

Bought by KVMR, WNCU, WGDR, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Hour version of Mandela: An Audio History

Bought by WEAA, WYSO, WCPN, WEKU, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2004
  • Length: 00:58:44
  • Purchases: 25
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s journey to a philosophy of nonviolence and his lasting legacy as a peace proponent is recalled in interviews with his daug...

Bought by WHFR, Prairie Public, KVNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEKU and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2005
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 80
Caption: Wilmington's black newspaper--after the "riot" and coup
In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 00:59:25
  • Purchases: 1
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The Life and Legend of Louis Armstrong and “Live a Little!” Learning to Live “A Pretty Healthy Life” … this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 00:59:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Perfect for Black History Month (February), this one-hour special tells the story of Duke Ellington's musical "Jump for Joy"

Bought by WNCU, KZYX, WUCF, WNMU-FM, KUNR and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 00:59:05
  • Purchases: 23
Caption: Dr. Della Taylor Hardman
Dr. Della Taylor Hardman made it her mission to talk to influential and promising African Americans inside and outside of West Virginia. Her interv...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:30
  • Purchases: 1
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If Frank and Audrey Peterman have their way, many more of their fellow black Americans will visit our national parks. They take host Majora Carter ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WRVO, Rhode Island Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2010
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 8
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In a supposedly post-racial era, is there still a place for political unity among African-Americans?

Bought by WRNC-LP, KKRN, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Feb 06, 2012
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 3