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Black Voices of 2020 Vol 2

Airs at: Sat, 03/11/2023 at 9:00pm - 10:00pm
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Black Voices of 2020 Vol 1

Airs at: Tue, 03/07/2023 at 3:00am - 5:30am
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De’Shawn Charles Winslow, author of Decent People

Airs at: Thu, 03/16/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between the Covers
De’Shawn Charles Winslow, the award-winning author of In West Mills, joins us to talk about his new novel Decent People. Set in the same fictional small town in North Carolina, Decent People is a murder mystery, a family saga, and a nuanced examination of race and class. “... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 6, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2023 at 9:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Attack on Educators: Bill Resnick talks to Jesse Hagopian about the recent Florida law, led by Led by Governor Ronald DeSantis, the “Stop W.O.K.E. Act” that is aimed at criminalizing teac... Read more

Attack on Educators

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks to Jesse Hagopian about the recent Florida law, led by Led by Governor Ronald DeSantis, the “Stop W.O.K.E. Act” that is aimed at criminalizing teaching Black history, banning books and limiting what can be taught, claiming that Critical Race theory is its... Read more

Black Women's History: It's Everywhere

Airs at: Thu, 03/02/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
We're celebrating contemporary and historic Black women whose lives have enriched the community and the world.  First time guest, Dr. Carmen P. Thompson is a historian and author of The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth- Century Virginia.  D... Read more

The Black Alliance for Peace, anti-imperialism and U.S. geopolitics (with a radical Black perspective on the Ukraine war)

Airs at: Wed, 03/01/2023 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Founded in April 2017 by a handful of African/Black organizations in the United States, with Ajamu Baraka at its helm, the Black Alliance for Peace is attempting to re-develop the Black Radical Tradition's anti-imperialist position. The goal is to help build the African/... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 27, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Jazz Great You Never Heard Of: Patricia Kullberg takes a look back at a famous Black entertainer whose career was ruined and her legacy pretty much erased from history after sh... Read more

The Long Shadow

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sasha Lilly plays audio segments from the film The Long Shadow by Frances Causey. The history of slavery in the United States casts a pall over our present. The film illustrates how and why in a compelling and personal work, that traces four centuries of racial oppression i... Read more

The Jazz Great You Never Heard Of

Airs at: Mon, 02/27/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg takes a look back at a famous Black entertainer whose career was ruined and her legacy pretty much erased from history after she stood up to the House Un-American Committee. Patricia reads from an essay about piano prodigy and jazz musician Hazel Scott, en... Read more