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From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
BackStory producer Chioke I’Anson tells the story of Eugene Bullard, the first African-American fighter pilot in World War I – only he flew for Fra...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 06:22
- 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
Thelonious Monk was an original voice in the shaping the sound of American music. Both his compositions and his inimitable piano playing continue t...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
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
Based on the true story of Scipio Africanus Jones. At the end of episode one, black attorney Jones was faces with taking on a racially charged mu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2013
- Length: 28:56
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
It's certainly Oscar material. But if you are interested in the real story of the 13th Amendment and the actual legacy of the Lincoln presidency, l...
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 01:00:05
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 29:00
A recent book critical of Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder has raised controversial questions about our founding father. Allison Quantz has the st...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:47
As part of KUT’s Views and Brews series we engaged in a spirited discussion about Miles, his music, his relationships with his musicians, and the g...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 01:58:04
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
From our show on Homeownership: In the 1960s, a group of African Americans in Chicago fell victim to predatory lending. Brian Balogh tells the stor...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 13:26
- Purchases: 1
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama explores the First Lady’s family roots and recounts a...
- Added: Jun 20, 2012
- Length: 01:00:00
Robert Holmes talks about his family being among the first to integrate a neighborhood in Edison, New Jersey.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
Blues, jazz and folk music of the 1920s and '30s featuring the guitar, piano, violin and more.
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 59:00
The Black Panther Party and its health care work in black communities is the topic of Radio Curious this week, in an interview with Professor Alond...
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 29:35
Two undefeated heavyweight boxing
champions capture the imagination of a polarized
America on March 8, 1971.
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 02:46
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 19:53
Memorialized in a Bob Dylan song and an Academy Award nominated Denzel Washington film, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a successful prize fighter, wh...
Bought by WAMU, WKMS, WCSU-FM, KBGA 89.9 FM, Iowa Public Radio and more
- Added: Dec 28, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 22
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
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
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
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
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
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
