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Pro-Slavery Constitution
Series: BeyondtheBlackLetter
From Zach Miller
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The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 00:20:25
  • Purchases: 1
Deep River: The African American Choral Spiritual
From WFIU
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From the days of slavery 150 years ago, the African American spiritual grew out of the earliest days of Black America. Over time, spirituals sprea...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
The Story of Black America: From Slavery to Civil Rights and the Modern Era
From N Lorde
Caption: The Story of Black America: From Slavery to Civil Rights and the Modern Era
In-depth documentary on the Story of Black America - from slavery to the civil rights movement. It’s fast-paced with a great original musical score...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 14, 2012
  • Length: 00:17:23
  • Purchases: 1
Kelly Starling Lyons, author of "Ellen's Broom"
From Eileen Heyes
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Kelly Starling Lyons talks about her two new picture books, which draw on African-American history but tell stories that transcend any cultural bou...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:04:51
Melissa Harris-Perry: Confronting Stereotypes of the Black Woman
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
Caption: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, Credit: Melissa Harris-Perry
On this edition, author and political science professor Melissa Harris-Perry speaks about the stereotypes black women face, the resulting impacts o...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KHNS, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
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
Following Harriet Tubman
Series: Andrew Hiller's News Features
From Andrew Hiller
Caption: The Bucktown Village Store where Harriet Tubman received a head injury that would impact her entire life, Credit: courtesy of Andrew Hiller
This feature explores the life and some of the myths of Harriet Tubman with interviews by experts from Cambridge, MD, the town where "Moses" was bo...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:16
  • Purchases: 1
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
OPEN SOURCE: Problem Solving, Then Poetry - Kwame Anthony Appiah & C.K. Williams
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're talking with Kwame Anthony Appiah and C.K. Williams this week. The philosopher and storyteller Kwame Anthony Appiah at Princeton is on the tr...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Escape at Christmas
From Shannon Service
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With most modes of communication outlawed, slaves embedded hidden messages inside Christian spirituals to communicate their plans for escape. This...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 00:05:01
  • Purchases: 4
Race, Slavery, and the Civil War: The Tough Stuff
From With Good Reason
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To mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the nation’s finest historians gathered on September 24th at Norfolk State University to discuss th...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 00:28:59
  • Purchases: 1
James Lawson: Non-Violent Warrior
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
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
John Brown, Terrorist or Hero? Let the Kids decide
From David Weinberg
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Is John Brown the father of American Terrorism or a hero who fought for equality? Illustrator John Hendrix tackles the controversial American legen...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Blues Quest featuring Denise LaSalle
Series: Blues Quest
From Mike Sanders
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Denise LaSalle is the reigning “Queen of Soul Blues,” and she’s not stepping down any time soon.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2010
  • Length: 00:57:00
Blues Quest featuring Tinsley Ellis
Series: Blues Quest
From Mike Sanders
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Tinsely Ellis created a high-intensity blues/rock style steeped in Southern soul.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2010
  • Length: 00:57:00
Blues Quest featuring Boo Boo Davis
Series: Blues Quest
From Mike Sanders
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Born in Drew, Mississippi, and now living in East St. Louis, Boo Boo Davis proudly says, “I am the blues.”

  • Added: Jan 22, 2010
  • Length: 00:57:00
Blues Quest featuring Sonny Landreth
Series: Blues Quest
From Mike Sanders
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Louisiana-based singer/songwriter and slide guitar master Sonny Landreth has a sound like no other.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2010
  • Length: 00:57:00
Blues Quest featuring Billy Boy Arnold
Series: Blues Quest
From Mike Sanders
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Harmonica legend Billy Boy Arnold is one of the creators of the Chicago blues sound and was a major influence on the British blues invasion of the ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2010
  • Length: 00:57:00
Blues Quest featuring Bettye LaVette
Series: Blues Quest
From Mike Sanders
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Bettye LaVette, the “Great Lady of Soul,” is so much more than a soul singer, melding all forms of American music.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2010
  • Length: 00:57:00
Blues Quest featuring James Harman
Series: Blues Quest
From Mike Sanders
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This Alabama harmonica legend was one of the first white Americans who entered the blues in the 1960s.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:57:00
Blues Quest featuring CeDell Davis
Series: Blues Quest
From Mike Sanders
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A victim of polio, Delta blues singer Cedell Davis developed a unique style of playing slide guitar with a table knife.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:57:00
OPEN SOURCE: Douglas Blackmon on US slavery until WWII
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon in conversation with Pulitzer winning author Douglas Blackmon. Slavery in the American South ended only a generation or two ago, ...

Bought by WEOS, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Oct 26, 2009
  • Length: 00:58:58
  • Purchases: 3
Voices on Antisemitism: Beverly E. Mitchell (Professor of Historical Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary)
Series: Voices on Antisemitism
From United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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In Plantations and Death Camps: Religion, Ideology, and Human Dignity, Beverly Mitchell looks at the history both of the Holocaust and of slavery i...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 00:06:03
Labor Inspector
Series: WORKING
From Homelands Productions
Caption: Leandro Carvalho, Brazil, Credit: Petra Costa
Sandy Tolan profiles a member an anti-forced labor SWAT team whose job is to free slaves working in Brazil's iron, cattle and sugar cane industries.

Bought by WRPI, Public Radio Remix, PRX to iTunes, WBEZ, and Remix Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2009
  • Length: 00:07:57
  • Purchases: 5
TRAFFICK COPS
From Voices of Our World
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Human trafficking and the efforts to combat this form of modern day slavery.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 00:27:58