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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
Locks, Dreads, or Jata (Hindi) is a kind of hairstyle that portrays different meaning and belief. In today's society, having dreads is something co...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 11:43
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 07:26
First, two authors set out on a life-changing journey together to examine the ugly realities of racism, the enduring cultural scars left by the Ame...
Bought by WCWP
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 1
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
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 1
"When people get two trumpet players it becomes very competitive...It
was [Booker Little], Lee Morgan and myself at the time. We we're the
young ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 1
Bernard Holyfield (R) tells his friend Charles Barlow (L) about a painful memory from his childhood in the 1960s.
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 02:18
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious visits with Chautauqua scholars Sally Wagner & Charles Pace who portray Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass. The two friends...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Kathryn's debut novel, "The Help," is a black-white history lesson that's never been told quite like this before. Through the lives of several wome...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 10:04
First, Taylor Branch has identified eighteen pivotal events in the civil rights movement of the 1960’s in his book, “The King Years.” Branch provid...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 59:55
Radio Curious discusses the N-word with law professor, Randall Kennedy, author of “Nigger-the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.”
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Historical perspective on the Civil War and its effect on average Americans.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 01:51:07
Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Avis Jones-Deweever, Executive Director of the National Council of Negro Women, the nation's oldest coalitio...
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 28:25
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York whose life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transform...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
William Pope.L, an American performance artist and interventionist, talks about Blink, his magic lantern show for Prospect.2 New Orleans, 2011.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
In this episode of BackStory, we take a look at the narratives surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation and try to unpack its legacy. How can we ...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, WFPL News, WOUB, WTJU and more
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 7
We continue our conversation with Pulitzer winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migratio...
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Charlie Morris remembers his brother's death in 1939, with his cousin Sylvester Lewis.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 01:46
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious visits with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration...
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 29:02
1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 29:00
The fourth and final installment of the Jazz Crossroads of America series. In the 1960s universities began to establish jazz education programs, an...
Bought by WPTC
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
In this first of a two-part series, Dred-Scott Keyes interviews winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Awards David W. Blight, author of "American Ora...
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 56:00
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Alelia Bundles on her great-great grandmothers transformation into an entrepreneur and social activist-...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 27:30
