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Maya Angelou & Guy Johnson - Mother and Son Poets become themselves

From: Sedge Thomson

Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.

Bought by KFCF FM, 90.5 WSNC, KWMR, WJSU, KZYX and more

Added: Jan 08, 2006
Length: 44:47
Purchases: 19

Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’

From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

Caption: Dancing to the Lyrics won Dwayne Ratleff a Best Indie Book Award in the “LGBTQ Coming Of Age” category., Credit: Book cover art by Leann E. Johnson / L&J Graphics

Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” His a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KALW, and WORT

Added: Oct 04, 2022
Length: 29:10
Purchases: 4

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Journalist Eric Arnold talks with Stanley Nelson, director of the documentary film: The Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution.

Bought by KMUN, KALW, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WRKF, WFHB and more

Added: Oct 28, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 23

Martin Luther King Jr. Is Still On The Case!

From: PRX
Series: Esquire Classic

In 1968, just hours after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the future Pulitzer Prize–winning author Garry Wills—then a young writer for Esq...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, North Country Public Radio, KVCR, WFHB, RadioFreePalmer and more

Added: Jan 22, 2016
Length: 29:57
Purchases: 13

A Shortcut To The Mountaintop

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Mix

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KALW, KQAL, RadioStPete Florida, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more

Added: Jan 11, 2006
Length: 29:27
Purchases: 58

Strike

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Caption: portrait of Barbara Johns, who led the walkout

In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

Added: Jan 09, 2012
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 27

A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

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 ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more

Added: Aug 05, 2011
Length: 25:33
Purchases: 16

WTW Texts of Resistance

From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month

How did slaves resist their oppression? Three works explore what it means to resist and to survive.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KUOW, KVNF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

Added: Jan 07, 2009
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 24

What's the Word? W. E. B. Du Bois

From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month

Considered by many the most important African American leader of the early twentieth century, sociologist, historian, author, teacher, and activist...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KUOW, KVNF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

Added: Feb 03, 2005
Length: 29:10
Purchases: 47

Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair (30 Min Special)

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast

Caption: Bridgette McGee holds a photo of her grandfather., Credit: Teri Havens

In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting

Added: Feb 13, 2014
Length: 28:11
Purchases: 2

Learning to Live: James' Story

From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series

The story of an ex-felon's transition from prison to the free world. James, who narrates, is 38 and has been in and out of prison all his adult lif...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUER, RadioFreePalmer, PRX Remix and more

Added: Sep 03, 2004
Length: 28:47
Purchases: 11

Movin' Out the Bricks

From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series

A year in the life of Catherine "Coco" Means, as she leaves her long-time home in a Chicago public housing development and moves to her first priva...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KGNU Community Radio, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes and more

Added: Sep 03, 2004
Length: 27:46
Purchases: 8

Hog Butchers to the World

From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series

Studs Terkel reads excerpts from Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" in this history of African Americans in the packinghouse industry of Chicago.

Bought by WFHB, WORT, Spokane Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC and more

Added: Nov 04, 2008
Length: 28:21
Purchases: 12

The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History

From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series

The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVMR, WORT, KVNF and more

Added: Sep 03, 2004
Length: 25:12
Purchases: 26

Nightfall in Chester County

From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place

In Pennsylvania farmland that was the first stop on the Underground Railroad, a strike by Mexican mushroom pickers polarizes a Quaker community.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, WRIR, KMUN and more

Added: May 28, 2004
Length: 29:29
Purchases: 16

House of the Lord

From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place

The history of a black church on an antebellum plantation and how it was saved from destruction.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KVNF, KUT, KDUR, WJAB and more

Added: Feb 01, 2006
Length: 29:33
Purchases: 7

Black Classical Masters series: "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

From: David Person

A series of four short programs that examine the song known as the Black national anthem.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WHFR, RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis and more

Added: Feb 21, 2006
Length: 19:53
Purchases: 7

Strange Fruit: Voices of a Lynching

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.

Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more

Added: Feb 19, 2013
Length: 14:35
Purchases: 6

Chasing After the Hurricane: A Personal Look Into the Life of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - After the Movie.

From: N Lorde

A personal insight into the life of former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - his life after the blockbuster hit movie.

Bought by KSFR, KSJD, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, and KSFR

Added: Jan 08, 2006
Length: 14:07
Purchases: 5

The People Could Fly

From: Miles Tokunow

Caption: It's Superman!, Credit: by Dude Crush

This is a telling of Virginia Hamilton's American Black Folktale "The People Could Fly."

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioFreePalmer, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WSLR, WDBM and more

Added: Jan 20, 2011
Length: 11:11
Purchases: 11

Water Woman

From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: Black History Month

Popular storyteller Imakhu Mwt Shekemet's contemporary version of Afro-Brazillian folktale, "Mae de Agua."

Bought by WSLR, WABE, KUT, KUT, WJAB and more

Added: Dec 06, 2005
Length: 25:58
Purchases: 10

Toilet Paper Scrap Chronicles Civil Rights Ordeal

From: Wisconsin Public Radio

A six-foot piece of jail-grade toilet paper from 1963 captures Civil Rights struggle

Bought by WABE, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, 90.5 WSNC and more

Added: Sep 02, 2005
Length: 07:23
Purchases: 7

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Secret Advisor

From: WNYC

The names of many of Reverend Martin Luther King Junior’s associates are well known: Harry Belafonte, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young. But one of his m...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KLCC, Prairie Public, KRCB 104.9 and more

Added: Feb 04, 2011
Length: 07:38
Purchases: 28

The Quander Quality

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Nellie Mae Quander (1880-1961), 1st international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the 1st Greek-lettered sorority established/incorporated by African-American college women., Credit: Quander Historical Society, Inc.

Meet the oldest African-American family in Washington, D.C. - and, perhaps, the United States.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Radio Catskill, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more

Added: Jan 19, 2011
Length: 05:17
Purchases: 6

Black Tension

From: Hana Baba

A look at the sometimes tension-filled relationship between African immigrants and Black Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KISU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF and more

Added: Apr 14, 2005
Length: 07:41
Purchases: 10

Living Flag

From: Dmae Lo Roberts

Street performance piece with Artist damali ayo as she panhandles around the country to create dialogue about reparations for slavery.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KRUA, WBHM and more

Added: Jul 20, 2004
Length: 04:02
Purchases: 10

The '63 March : Convergence on the Capitol

From: WGBH Radio Boston

This is the second in a five-part radio series focusing on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The demonstrations were viewed suspi...

Bought by WABE, WEAA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WJAB, WVAS and more

Added: Oct 05, 2003
Length: 07:17
Purchases: 7

Shakespeare In Black and White

From: Richard Paul

The African-American experience with Shakespeare

Bought by KLCC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WABE, KZYX, PRX Remix and more

Added: Apr 10, 2006
Length: 07:01
Purchases: 9

Barbara Jordan Speech on Watergate and the Constitution

From: KUT

History of Barbara Jordan's Constitutional speech on Watergate

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KZYX, RadioStPete Florida, KZYX, WRIR and more

Added: Jul 22, 2005
Length: 08:44
Purchases: 17

The Fire This Time

From: Christopher Sprinkle

Spoken-word poetry detailing memories of the 1991 Los Angeles Uprising

Bought by WSLR and KSFR

Added: Jul 02, 2004
Length: 06:04
Purchases: 2

The Hair Struggle

From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism

A piece that explains how African-American students across the country are struggling to find stylists capable of doing their hair, and what length...

Bought by WORT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KLCC, 90.5 WSNC, and KRZA

Added: Nov 13, 2015
Length: 03:28
Purchases: 5

Jerry Blavat

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

Early in his career, Jerry Blavat was a disc jockey at WHAT, one of the two Philadelphia Black AM radio stations at the far right end of the dial. ...

Bought by KTEP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, WDSE, KUER and more

Added: Jan 16, 2014
Length: 04:29
Purchases: 8

Louise Williams

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

Louise Williams is known as the “Gospel Queen of Philadelphia.” For 49 years, she hosted “The Louise Bishop Program” at WDAS, one of the highest-ra...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUCB, WFHB, WDSE, PRX Remix and more

Added: Jan 15, 2014
Length: 04:02
Purchases: 6

Doug Henderson Jr.

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

Jocko Henderson was one of the most imitated Black personality disc jockeys of all time. He's known as the godfather of rap, the “Ace from Outer Sp...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUCB, WFHB, WDSE, PRX Remix and more

Added: Jan 07, 2014
Length: 03:21
Purchases: 7

Harvey Holiday

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

Harvey Holiday was one of the few white disc jockeys who made it big on Black radio in Philadelphia in the 70s. His highly-rated Sunday night “Holi...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KUOW

Added: Jan 07, 2014
Length: 05:13
Purchases: 3

Joe McEwen

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

Record label executive Joe McEwen was one of the many white kids listening to Black radio in Philadelphia in the 50s and 60s. Here, McEwen talks ab...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KUOW

Added: Jan 07, 2014
Length: 04:27
Purchases: 3

Sam Reed

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

In the late 50s and 60s, jazz musician Sam Reed was the house leader at the historic Uptown Theater in North Philadelphia. The Uptown was the Phill...

Bought by KTEP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, WDSE, and KUOW

Added: Jan 07, 2014
Length: 03:26
Purchases: 5

Karen Warrington

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

Karen Warrington, director of communication for Congressman Robert Brady, has been an independent voice for Black political and social empowerment ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KUOW, and PRX Remix

Added: Jan 07, 2014
Length: 06:41
Purchases: 4

Sonny Hopson

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

For a time in the late ’60s, no one’s microphone in Philadelphia blazed hotter than Sonny Hopson. He was dynamic, exciting and wildly unpredictable...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUCB, WFHB, WDSE, PRX Remix and more

Added: Jan 07, 2014
Length: 04:29
Purchases: 6

Dyana Williams

From: Mighty Writers
Series: "Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio" Companion Pieces

Dyana Williams started her broadcasting career in 1973 as one of the few African-American women on the air. Her radio handle? Ebony Moonbeams. Sinc...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, WABE, and KUOW

Added: Jan 07, 2014
Length: 04:55
Purchases: 4

Questions for Martin Luther King, Jr.

From: David Green

If given the chance to interview Dr. King, this is what a group of third graders would have asked him.

Bought by KLCC, 90.5 WSNC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, Boise State Public Radio and more

Added: Jan 18, 2009
Length: 02:20
Purchases: 36

Aha Moment: Underground Railroad

From: Zak Rosen

Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/

Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more

Added: Apr 28, 2009
Length: 04:29
Purchases: 15

A Prohibition

From: Terin Mayer

Three students reflect on what it means to be "Black" at Carleton College

Bought by WTIP, KRZA, KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, WGBH Radio Boston and more

Added: Nov 08, 2005
Length: 04:27
Purchases: 13

Keeping Poverty on the Front Page

From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Janensch on the Media

Commentary on poverty issues

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WMNF, and WMNF

Added: Sep 30, 2005
Length: 02:21
Purchases: 3

Katrina, Race, and High School

From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Blunt Responds to Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina stirred up a national dialogue about racial inequality and prompted Blunt's Bly Lauritano-Werner to take a look at some of the di...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KZYX, PRX Remix, KSFR, KTNA and more