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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: 00:29:00
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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: 00:29:02
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, and Kevin Bacon lead an all-star cast in a timely portrait of an American civil-rights struggle.

Bought by KVSC, KVMR, WPTC, Maine Public Radio, Nevada Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Police filming students during the anti-cuts demonstration in London, Credit: Cleaner Croydon
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: 00:29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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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: 00:59:07
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Yvette Freeman reprises her Obie-winning performance as Dinah Washington.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, WBEZ, KUOW, KRCB and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Serenade To A Bus Seat, Credit: 2007 Concord Music Group, Inc.
"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: 00:49:56
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: Rosa Parks, Credit: Mindfully.org
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:55
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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: 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
Caption: Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, Credit: Flickr user: Alex E. Proimos
In 2011, why are there fewer than 20 female heads of state around the world? A former President, a Supreme Court justice and other women leaders re...

Bought by WEKU, 90.5 WSNC, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
Caption: Noor Elashi, Daughter of Ghassan Elashi of the Holy Land 5, Credit: http://antiauthoritarian.net
10 years since 9-11…and 10 years of America’s homeland war on Muslims and Arabs. Racial profiling has happened in times of war before—how will it ...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
Caption: Christine Lesiak
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with film producers Christine Lesiak and Princella Parker.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:16:00
Caption: District boundaries in Boston, MA., Credit: Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
2011 marks the year for redistricting – the once-in-a-decade process to draw boundaries that determine your elected officials from local school boa...

Bought by KRUA, KSFR, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Josh White
Interview and discussion on the subject of the legendary JOSH WHITE with his son JOSH WHITE, Jr. his daughter JUDY WHITE-GOARD and his granddaughte...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2011
  • Length: 00:54:13
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Carlotta Walls LaNier, one of the "Little Rock Nine" shares recollections of the sacrifices made and the abuses endured in her pursuit of a fair an...

Bought by WUGA and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:53:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Michelle Alexander
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The human side of Bobby Kennedy's rise to statesmanship.

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


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:57:54
  • Purchases: 8
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A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.

Bought by KHNS, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WAMC, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:06
  • Purchases: 6
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This June, thousands of grassroots activists converged on Detroit, Michigan to attend the 2010 United States Social Forum. We were there and on thi...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2010
  • Length: 00:29:59
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Arrested in Nashville, 1960 , Credit: www.blackpast.com
An interview with James Lawson, the chief architect of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, and confidant to Martin Luther King. Lawson touches on every...

  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 00:29:00
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
Caption: Loretta Devine and Paul Winfield
A town with a secret hides the truth about a notorious murder.

Bought by Red River Radio Network, WCPN, WPTC, KUOW, Nevada Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 7