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If you think we live in a post-racial world…think again: statistically speaking, being born Black or Latino or Native American is associated with s...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 50:27
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
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
The original vinyl soundtrack from the famed "March on Washington" including Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech in it's entirety, alo...
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 58:03
At the end of episode three, attorney Col. Murphy collapsed during the trial for the Elaine defendants, and died a few days later. Scipio Jones is...
- Added: Jan 13, 2013
- Length: 28:54
A history of St. Philips Moravian Church, the only historic African-American Moravian congregation in the U.S.
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 18:59
Joseph Arrington, Jr. better known as "JOE TEX", was one of the greatest soul singers in history. His style was different from a James Brown, a Wil...
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 54:54
Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:24
Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
November is American Diabetes Month and this award-winning program tells first-person stories from the Type 2 diabetes epidemic. Health Care Report...
Bought by KRCB-FM, KREV-LP, and KWIS 88.3 FM
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 54:03
- Purchases: 3
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
Infant mortality rates in Michigan are better than they used to be, but still not good enough.
Seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan w...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 51:01
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
The Guys tell the story of an unofficial, integrated delegation from Mississippi that attempted to claim seats at the 1964 Democratic National Conv...
- Added: Sep 17, 2012
- Length: 08:13
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
To be black and male in America carries with it a certain baggage. Two out of three black male students in Rochester are failing to graduate. "Need...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 27:10
A lot of people probably don't think of jazz as all that funny. But from the music's vaudeville roots to legendary prankster Dizzy Gillespie, there...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KSFR, WNCU and more
- Added: Jul 27, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 13
Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is m...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 1
A simple scene of sharing language, laughter, songs and daily chores with my neighbours in Kigali, Rwanda.
Bought by KFAI, KCUR, KUT, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 4
Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 10
Think of a jazz big band and it's probably the brassy sound of a 30's swing orchestra that comes to mind first. But throughout their more than 80 y...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, WEZU, WNCU, KZYX and more
- Added: Unknown
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 11
What do Langston Hughes, the 50's Beat writers, and jazz critics all have in common? They all like to write about jazz. This week we'll take a look...
Bought by WCSU-FM, WNCU, Radio New Zealand, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN and more
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
In this hour, we continue our series on America's Great Jazz Cities with the forgotten history of jazz and the blues in St. Louis.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 8
