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Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Randall Kennedy, author of "The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency," and "Nigger:The...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Who Controls Black Women's Bodies?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Pro-abortion rally, Credit: Flickr user: ProgressOhio
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 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Voices From The Diaspora: Resistance and Community
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Riots all over the world are calling on us to get involved in societal change. But what kind of action is needed, and how do we create real change?...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Behind the Truck Stop: The Story of Vado-Del Cerro
From: Kent Paterson
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A half-hour radio documentary that examines the history and culture of a New Mexico border town. The piece explores issues of inter-ethnic relation...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
History Under Oath
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
Caption: Tate Brady, Credit: Beryl Ford Collection, Tulsa City-County Library
In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had been so active in Tulsa, Oklahoma - doing everything from holding parades to organizing lynch mobs - that ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 04:34
A Conversation with Charles Randolph-Wright
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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Charles Randolph-Wright talks about directing Lynn Nottage's play Ruined at Arena Stage.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:38
Cleaning Graves in Calvert
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
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Cleaning Graves in Calvert recounts the ritual of death in small town Texas. Listen as a group of men read Quraysh Ali Lansana's poem and share the...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 02:56
A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:33
A Conversation with NEA Heritage Fellow Queen Ida
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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2009 National Heritage Fellow Queen Ida Guillory discusses the Zydeco tradition and how she became a part of the band!

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
Tales from the South 017 with Janis Kearney
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
"Gil Scott-Heron: In His Own Words"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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Producer Dred-Scott Keyes looks at the life and music of poet, musician and composer, Gil Scott-Heron, who passed in New York City on May 27th.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:03
Seeking Justice and Police Accountability in Jamaica
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jason Smith's Candlelight Vigil , Credit: Madeline Bair
Jamaica has a long history of police violence and corruption. In May 2010 a government crackdown left 73 people dead and a city in chaos. The major...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: May 23, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
National Book Award-winning poet, Terrance Hayes
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes reads from his 2010 National Book Award-winning poetry collection LIGHTHEAD, and discusses how true-life escapades inspire his poetr...

  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
"Breaking the Psychological Chains of Slavery"
From: Making Contact
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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: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:59
Whose Newsroom is This? The US Media and Race
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A discussion on the history of race and the American Media, from the 2011 National Conference on Media Reform, featuring Democracy Now’s Juan Gonza...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Master Harold...and the Boys
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A story of friendship and racism in apartheid-era South Africa.

Bought by WCPN, Nevada Public Radio, KUT, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 7
Belva Davis on reporting during the tumultuous ‘60s
From: KALW
Caption: elva Davis (right) interviewing Coretta Scott King., Credit: Courtesy of Belva Davis
In 1964, the Republican Party was holding its convention in San Francisco. Barry Goldwater was running for president. President Johnson had recentl...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
Anacostia, The Series
From: Emily Berman
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"If you thought Melrose Place was hot, wait until you move to Anacostia."

  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 04:10
State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
Caption: White students protest integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. , Credit: Photograph by Flip Schulke/CORBIS
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...

Bought by KOSU, Interlochen Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM, and WRPI


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...

Bought by KLCC, KFAI, KGOU, WLRN, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow
From: Making Contact
Series: 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: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
EZ Malone
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c. 2000
On her way home from her grandmother's funeral in 1996, Carmen happens to meet a remarkable African-American guitarist in a thrift shop in North Ca...

Bought by KUT, KGLT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 3
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: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Practically Speaking: Strung Out on Credit
From: Ayana Contreras
Series: Practically Speaking
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The Road to Rehabilitation is littered with good intentions and foreclosures. Host Audra Wilson discovers that many Americans were literally addic...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2010
  • Length: 09:52
We're All Just Shadows
From: One Hello World
Series: One Hello World
Caption: One Hello World, Credit: http://www.theonlymagicleftisart.com/
How could anybody be blind to the fact that, underneath it all, we’re all just shadows?

Bought by KUT, Public Radio Remix, and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 3