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From: Dred-Scott Keyes
In this second part of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Perfo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 59:59
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:01
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 09:52
Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:41
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
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
jim justice speaks with Gerald Hankerson and Teresa Clark of Washington Community Action Network (CAN!), Clint Weckerly of SeaMar, and Rev. Josefin...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 27:59
Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:28
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
"The 47% Mix" with Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Ethel Waters, Ry Cooder, Menomena, The Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby, Alan Price, a...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 19:31
- Purchases: 1
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
In the summer of 2012 WUNC established its first ever Youth Radio Institute. The station hired five young people -- and two mentors -- to produce r...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:57
On a recent visit to Wisconsin, Maya Soetoro-Ng explains why her brother is America's first feminist president.
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 02:03
Forty years ago, the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize spoke at the 1971 dedication of the MLK Park in south Minneapolis. ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2012
- Length: 06:35
Barack Obama’s first term has been a disappointment for many, and leaves open the question for those with a progressive agenda—is voting for Obama ...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Angela Blackwell has spent her adult life advocating practical ways to fulfill America’s promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” f...
Bought by WMNF, KBRP Community Radio, WPSU-FM, WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova, KUOW and more
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 17
Students all over Philadelphia are being pushed out of schools and right into the school to prison pipeline. This is happening because of the lack ...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 03:45
The War on Drugs has made America the world's leading jailer. Increasingly, the casualties of the drug war are speaking out.
- Added: Mar 11, 2012
- Length: 12:39
This documentary views Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" through the lens of California's ma...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 29:35
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Jan 19, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Washington D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood has been a historically black, working-class community. Now, as property values in D.C. are climbing, a wa...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 2
A dialogue between Princeton University professor Cornel West, and Revolutionary Communist Party USA spokesman Carl Dix about the future of America...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
