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This month's Tin Roof Project features Simeon Wright, author of Simeon Speaks, the first eyewitness account of the kidnapping and murder of his cou...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 42:00
Civil rights activist Bob Moses famously helped organize a voter registration drive in Mississippi that changed the political landscape for the bla...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 29:00
On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 16:46
- Purchases: 1
Kathryn's debut novel, "The Help," is a black-white history lesson that's never been told quite like this before. Through the lives of several wome...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 10:04
Inspired by the campaign to end South African apartheid, Palestinians are leading an international campaign to put economic and political pressure ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 12:42
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:22
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York whose life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transform...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
This is a special musical tribute to Eunice Kathleen Waymon, known as the great NINA SIMONE. This special contains some of her biggest hits.
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 55:45
- Purchases: 1
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 29:00
While living on a farm in the Mississippi Delta that was once part of a slave plantation, Randy searches for clues about the life of his great-gran...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 12:11
- Purchases: 1
As the 2009 ACORN scandal quickly unfolded and funding started to dry up, the groups’ members and organizers had to jump ship. Many formed new loc...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 08:20
It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 29:01
ART BLAKEY known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina was a Jazz drummer and a pioneer of Be-bop and modern Jazz. This one hour program is an introduction...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 23, 2012
- Length: 52:24
- Purchases: 1
Anti-racist author Tim Wise examines how society is being divided and conquered on the basis of race and class. But legendary activist Angela Davis...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Over the past decade, Mexican drug traffickers trying to get their products to the U.S. have had a spiritual “protector.” Her name is Santa Muerte—...
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Radio Curious discusses “Brothers on the Line” a film about the Reuther brothers who unionized the auto industry and galvanized the middle class. T...
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 29:02
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, and Kevin Bacon lead an all-star cast in a timely portrait of an American civil-rights struggle. "...every...
Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, KISU, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WCPN, WNPR and more
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 19
It’s been 20 years since four white police officers were cleared of unlawfully beating Rodney King in Los Angeles. But we might never have heard of...
Bought by KFAI
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
A Twist of Soul , Funk and Civil Rights is the story of Edition 6 of The Steve Edwards Soul Show. It is a musical tribute the the artists that laid...
- Added: Apr 04, 2012
- Length: 59:07
Yvette Freeman reprises her Obie-winning performance as Dinah Washington.
- Added: Mar 13, 2012
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 6
"Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement" is an important one hour program that features Jazz music as the background with comments concerning the Civil R...
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Mar 10, 2012
- Length: 49:56
- Purchases: 1
The Civil Rights Movement was the United States’ first major domestic news story to be televised. The author of a new book exploring television’s r...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 02:25
How the evening news shaped attitudes about race relations during the Civil Rights Movement.
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
