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Maya Angelou & Guy Johnson - Mother and Son Poets become themselves

From Sedge Thomson

Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.

Bought by KRUA, WJAB, Yellowstone Public Radio, WOSU, WBEZ and more

Added: Jan 08, 2006
Length: 00:44:47
Purchases: 9

A Shortcut To The Mountaintop

From Peter Bochan

Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Mix

Bought by Moab Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KRUA, KZYX, KSJD and more

Added: Jan 11, 2006
Length: 00:29:27
Purchases: 32

Dear Birth Mother

Series: Becoming a Mom
From Long Haul Productions

After waiting for Mr. Right (who has yet to arrive) - and after years of fertility treatments - Suzanne, a single woman in her forties, decided to ...

Bought by WNIJ, KGNU, Public Radio Remix, KUT, Remix Radio and more

Added: Jun 14, 2005
Length: 00:28:58
Purchases: 11

Strike

From With Good Reason

Caption: portrait of Barbara Johns, who led the walkout

In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KGNU, WRPI, and KSFR

Added: Jan 09, 2012
Length: 00:29:00
Purchases: 4

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson

Series: New Letters on the Air
From New Letters on the Air

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson explores the under-reported story of the mass movements of African Americans from the South to t...

Bought by KSFR

Added: Oct 19, 2011
Length: 00:29:00
Purchases: 1

A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson

Series: Art Works Podcast
From National Endowment for the Arts

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 ...

Added: Aug 05, 2011
Length: 00:25:33

WTW Texts of Resistance

Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
From Modern Language Association

How did slaves resist their oppression? Three works explore what it means to resist and to survive.

Bought by WFIU, WRNC-LP, WMNF, 90.5 WSNC, and KFAI

Added: Jan 07, 2009
Length: 00:29:00
Purchases: 5

What's the Word? W. E. B. Du Bois

Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
From Modern Language Association

Considered by many the most important African American leader of the early twentieth century, sociologist, historian, author, teacher, and activist...

Bought by WVAS, KGNU, KVSC, WPSU-FM, KZYX and more

Added: Feb 03, 2005
Length: 00:29:10
Purchases: 24

The Nigerian Political Crisis/Celebrating International Women's Day

Series: Home from Home
From My Lens Media

Nigerian commentator Okey Ndibe provides his (forthright) take on the uncertainty surrounding the return of Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua. For...

Added: Mar 11, 2010
Length: 00:30:00

Wunmi and 'Uncle' Roy Ayers

Series: Home from Home
From My Lens Media

Caption: Roy Ayers and Wunmi backstage at London's Jazz Cafe, Credit: My Lens Media

Host Christabel Nsiah-Buadi speak to music legend ROY AYERS and international music star, WUNMI backstage at the legendary Jazz Cafe in London

Added: Mar 11, 2010
Length: 00:30:04

I (G)Love Haiti: Numa Perrier

Series: Home from Home
From My Lens Media

How are Haitians who live outside of the devastated country learning about the fate of their loved ones? And how are they coping? Numa Perrier, a H...

Added: Jan 27, 2010
Length: 00:30:00

Learning to Live: James' Story

Series: Waiting it Out Series
From Long Haul Productions

The story of an ex-felon's transition from prison to the free world. James, who narrates, is 38 and has been in and out of prison all his adult lif...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, WRNC-LP, KUT, KFAI, WMNF and more

Added: Sep 03, 2004
Length: 00:28:47
Purchases: 7

Movin' Out the Bricks

Series: Homeplace Series
From Long Haul Productions

A year in the life of Catherine "Coco" Means, as she leaves her long-time home in a Chicago public housing development and moves to her first priva...

Bought by KGNU, Vocalo.org, Public Radio Remix, PRX to iTunes, Remix Radio and more

Added: Sep 03, 2004
Length: 00:27:46
Purchases: 7

Hog Butchers to the World

Series: American Worker Series
From Long Haul Productions

Studs Terkel reads excerpts from Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" in this history of African Americans in the packinghouse industry of Chicago.

Bought by KFAI, WRPI, KBRP Community Radio, and Public Radio Remix

Added: Nov 04, 2008
Length: 00:28:21
Purchases: 4

The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History

Series: American Worker Series
From Long Haul Productions

The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KALW, WNPR, KXOT Public Radio, Public Interactive and more

Added: Sep 03, 2004
Length: 00:25:12
Purchases: 12

Past American Voices: Gwendolyn Brooks

Series: New Letters on the Air
From New Letters on the Air

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 WVAS

Added: Feb 09, 2011
Length: 00:29:00
Purchases: 1

Between Civil War and Civil Rights: Lynching's End?: A Texas Whydunnit Murder Mystery (1930)

Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From Alan Lipke

Mob madness leads to a pivotal feminist protest during the dark days of Jim Crow racism.

Bought by KFAI, WMNF, and KUT-HD

Added: Feb 07, 2008
Length: 00:29:30
Purchases: 3

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing explored in Sena Jeter Naslund's "Four Spirits"

Series: New Letters on the Air
From New Letters on the Air

Sena Jeter Naslund conjures the spirits of the four girls killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, AL, in her novel FOU...

Bought by WJAB and CKMO

Added: Feb 20, 2006
Length: 00:29:02
Purchases: 2

Nightfall in Chester County

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

In Pennsylvania farmland that was the first stop on the Underground Railroad, a strike by Mexican mushroom pickers polarizes a Quaker community.

Bought by WUIS, WRVO, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Public Radio Remix, WRPI and more

Added: May 28, 2004
Length: 00:29:29
Purchases: 9

House of the Lord

Series: A Sense of Place
From Helen Borten

The history of a black church on an antebellum plantation and how it was saved from destruction.

Bought by KUT, KDUR, WJAB, WNCU, and KUOW

Added: Feb 01, 2006
Length: 00:29:33
Purchases: 5

Improving Race Relations: An African-American Perspective (Peace Talks Radio Series)

Series: Peace Talks Radio - Series of Half-Hours
From Good Radio Shows, Inc.

A panel of three African-Americans reflect on their greatest challenges and successes in resolving racial conflict throughout their lives.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, KDUR, WMNF, KCUR, KSFR and more

Added: Dec 05, 2005
Length: 00:28:55
Purchases: 7

No Argument Here

From With Good Reason

Caption: James Farmer, Credit: Library of Congress

A college professor is following the footsteps of a civil rights icon James Farmer, by training his students in the art of debate. Lydia Wilson, ...

Bought by WFIU

Added: Feb 05, 2010
Length: 00:29:00
Purchases: 1

What's the Word? W. E. B. Du Bois

Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
From Modern Language Association

Considered by many the most important African American leader of the early twentieth century, sociologist, historian, author, teacher, and activist...

Bought by WVAS, KGNU, KVSC, WPSU-FM, KZYX and more

Added: Feb 03, 2005
Length: 00:29:10
Purchases: 24

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Path To Nonviolence -29:00 Version (Peace Talks Radio Series)

Series: Peace Talks Radio - Series of Half-Hours
From Good Radio Shows, Inc.

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 KVMR, KVSC, KSFR, KVMR, Marfa Public Radio and more

Added: Jan 06, 2005
Length: 00:29:01
Purchases: 27

The People Could Fly

From Miles Tokunow

Caption: It's Superman!, Credit: by Dude Crush

This is a telling of Virginia Hamilton's American Black Folktale "The People Could Fly."

Bought by KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Public Radio Remix

Added: Jan 20, 2011
Length: 00:11:11
Purchases: 3

Chasing After the Hurricane: A Personal Look Into the Life of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - After the Movie.

From N Lorde

A personal insight into the life of former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - his life after the blockbuster hit movie. So far this aired on five...

Bought by KSJD, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, and KSFR

Added: Jan 08, 2006
Length: 00:14:07
Purchases: 4

Water Woman

Series: True Urban Legends
From Imakhu Shekemet

Popular storyteller Imakhu Mwt Shekemet's contemporary version of Afro-Brazillian folktale, "Mae de Agua."

Bought by KUT, KUT, WJAB, KSFR, KZUM and more

Added: Dec 06, 2005
Length: 00:12:57
Purchases: 8

Jeff in Boston: Halfrican

Series: Teenage Diaries
From Radio Diaries

More and more these days Jeff finds himself thinking about race and being forced to answer the question "What are you?"

Bought by KSJD, KFAI, KUT, Public Radio Remix, Remix Radio and more

Added: Dec 11, 2003
Length: 00:13:12
Purchases: 17

Pete Seeger on "We Shall Overcome"

Series: Blank on Blank
From Blank on Blank

Folk music legend Pete Seeger explains the history behind the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome", and why this famous song has many brothers ...

Bought by KRUA, Public Radio Remix, and North Country Public Radio

Added: Feb 01, 2011
Length: 00:06:47
Purchases: 3

Toilet Paper Scrap Chronicles Civil Rights Ordeal

From Wisconsin Public Radio

A six-foot piece of jail-grade toilet paper from 1963 captures Civil Rights struggle

Bought by KUOW, KFAI, 90.5 WSNC, KSFR, and WMPG

Added: Sep 02, 2005
Length: 00:07:23
Purchases: 5

Resurrecting the songs of slaves

From KALW

Caption: Henry Ossawa Tanner's "The Banjo Lesson" (1893)

With the advent and explosion of contemporary Gospel music on the scene, Negro spirituals have been on the decline. One local group that’s trying t...

Added: Jan 19, 2011
Length: 00:08:53

The Quander Quality

From Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Nellie Mae Quander (1880-1961), 1st international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the 1st Greek-lettered sorority established/incorporated by African-American college women., Credit: Quander Historical Society, Inc.

Meet the oldest African-American family in Washington, D.C. - and, perhaps, the United States.

Bought by WAMC and Public Radio Remix

Added: Jan 19, 2011
Length: 00:05:17
Purchases: 2

Health: Transplant Discrimination

From KALW

Feature Profiling a Black Man Awaiting a Kidney Transplant

Bought by KUOW, KRUA, and KLCC

Added: Aug 08, 2005
Length: 00:08:21
Purchases: 3

Lil' Hot Mama Flossie Turner Lewis

From Kate Szrom

Caption: Flossie Turner Lewis, Credit: Kate Szrom

Vaudeville entertainer Flossie Turner Lewis reflects on her life, including working with the family act in the minstrel show circuit and finally g...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI, WAMC, Public Radio Remix, KUOW and more

Added: Oct 06, 2010
Length: 00:07:28
Purchases: 6

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Secret Advisor

From WNYC

The names of many of Reverend Martin Luther King Junior’s associates are well known: Harry Belafonte, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young. But one of his m...

Bought by KUOW, KUMD, KRUA, and WAMC

Added: Feb 04, 2011
Length: 00:07:38
Purchases: 4

Black Tension

From Hana Baba

A look at the sometimes tension-filled relationship between African immigrants and Black Americans.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI, WMNF, WGBH Radio Boston, WMNF and more

Added: Apr 14, 2005
Length: 00:07:41
Purchases: 8

Living Flag

From Dmae Roberts

Street performance piece with Artist damali ayo as she panhandles around the country to create dialogue about reparations for slavery.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI, KRUA, WBHM-FM, WMNF and more

Added: Jul 20, 2004
Length: 00:04:02
Purchases: 9

The '63 March : Convergence on the Capitol

From WGBH Radio Boston

This is the second in a five-part radio series focusing on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The demonstrations were viewed suspi...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WJAB, WVAS, WNPR, and KUOW

Added: Oct 05, 2003
Length: 00:07:17
Purchases: 5

Navigating in Nebraska

From Lawrence Lanahan

Two years ago, 166 Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans ended up in Omaha, Nebraska. Two years out, one man is trying hard--perhaps too hard...

Bought by KFAI and KUT-HD

Added: Dec 10, 2007
Length: 00:05:24
Purchases: 2

Black Classical Masters series: "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

From David Person

A series of four short programs that examine the song known as the Black national anthem.

Bought by KFAI, WAMC, and Stan

Added: Feb 21, 2006
Length: 00:19:53
Purchases: 3

Shakespeare In Black and White

From Richard Paul

The African-American experience with Shakespeare

Bought by KFAI, KUOW, KUT, and WMFE

Added: Apr 10, 2006
Length: 00:07:01
Purchases: 4

Barbara Jordan Speech on Watergate and the Constitution

From KUT

History of Barbara Jordan's Constitutional speech on Watergate

Bought by WJAB, KCUR, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, WMPG and more

Added: Jul 22, 2005
Length: 00:08:44
Purchases: 7

The Fire This Time

From Christopher Sprinkle

Spoken-word poetry detailing memories of the 1991 Los Angeles Uprising

Added: Jul 02, 2004
Length: 00:06:04

StoryCorps Griot MLI: Ruth Ballard

Series: StoryCorps
From StoryCorps

91-year-old Ruth Ballard tells her minister, Ramonia Lee, about moving to Tuskegee, Alabama during World War II.

Bought by KFOK-LP, WMNF, and WBHM-FM

Added: Jul 27, 2007
Length: 00:01:49
Purchases: 3

Mary McAnally

Series: The Sound of Our Land
From This Land Press

Mary McAnally shares the story of how she organized the only Freedom Bus from Oklahoma during the Civil Rights Movement. She went with 40 Universit...

Bought by KUOW, KOSU, and Public Radio Remix

Added: Nov 30, 2011
Length: 00:04:06
Purchases: 3

Tulsa's Slow Integration

Series: Just Passing Through
From This Land Press

Caption: John Franklin's grandfather, B.C. Franklin (right), practiced law out of a tent after the riot. , Credit: Image courtesy the Beryl Ford Collection at the Tulsa City-County library

John W. Franklin is the grandson of an African American lawyer who survived the 1921 Tulsa race riot. He’s been coming back to Tulsa since infancy...

Bought by Public Radio Remix

Added: Sep 06, 2011
Length: 00:04:53
Purchases: 1

Questions for Martin Luther King, Jr.

From David Green

If given the chance to interview Dr. King, this is what a group of third graders would have asked him.

Bought by WTIP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRUA, KDNK, KVMR and more

Added: Jan 18, 2009
Length: 00:02:20
Purchases: 10

Aha Moment: Underground Railroad

From Zak Rosen

Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/

Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KZYX, Public Radio Remix, KUNM and more

Added: Apr 28, 2009
Length: 00:04:29
Purchases: 7

A Prohibition

From Terin Mayer

Three students reflect on what it means to be "Black" at Carleton College

Bought by KUT, KFAI, WGBH Radio Boston, WBEZ, WXLV-FM and more

Added: Nov 08, 2005
Length: 00:04:27
Purchases: 11

Keeping Poverty on the Front Page

Series: Janensch on the Media
From WNPR

Commentary on poverty issues

Bought by WMNF and WMNF

Added: Sep 30, 2005
Length: 00:02:21
Purchases: 2

Can Assassins Really Kill You?

From Paul McDonald

Caption: "The odd thing about assassins, Dr. King, is that they think they've killed you.", Credit: Chicago Sun Times, April 1968

One white boy's recollections of Dr. King and Malcolm X.

Bought by KGOU, WBHM-FM, KSFR, WAMC, KSJD and more

Added: Jan 23, 2006
Length: 00:02:02
Purchases: 6

Experiences With The "N" Word

From Paul McDonald

A double standard still exists for this racial epithet.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFAI, and Public Interactive

Added: Feb 10, 2005
Length: 00:03:33
Purchases: 3

Katrina, Race, and High School

Series: Blunt Responds to Hurricane Katrina
From Blunt Youth Radio Project

Hurricane Katrina stirred up a national dialogue about racial inequality and prompted Blunt's Bly Lauritano-Werner to take a look at some of the di...

Bought by KSFR, KTNA, and YouthCast

Added: Oct 18, 2005
Length: 00:04:15
Purchases: 3

"Identity in this Society" by Sean Reed

Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2005
From WBEZ

The first performance by Chicago teenager Sean Reed, here he reads about his perception of integrity and how it relates to identity - a wonderful p...

Bought by KFAI and KUOW

Added: Apr 01, 2005
Length: 00:02:09
Purchases: 2

"Peaches" by Langston Kerman

Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2005
From WBEZ

A young Chicago poet explores his understanding of the ridicule his parents faced for being a mixed couple, and how his bi-racial identity has been...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KUOW, and WMPG