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Over The Bridge Podcast

Over The Bridge Podcast

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Hey, meet Bilal, Kwaku, Patrick. 3 Black and Mixed-Race guys who became friends whilst studying at Cambridge University. Join us as we talk about life before, during and well - after 'The Bridge'. Expect chats about life, and our own experiences. email: otbpodcastuk@gmail.com Twitter: @otbpodcastuk Cast: Kwaku: @KwakuDapaah_ Patrick: @p_dinheiro Bilal: @Tweetsbybilal
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CWTR is a weekly, hour long, intenet-based talk radio show hosted by Gerry Prokopowicz of East Carolina University. Each week, Gerry interviews leading historians, authors, enthusiasts, etc. on all things Civil War related.
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Yale University Press Podcast

Yale University Press

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The Yale University Press Podcast is a series of in-depth conversations with experts and authors on a range of topics including politics, history, science, art, and more for those who are intellectually curious. Jessica Holahan hosts discussions on all things art and architecture and there are occasional appearances by Yale University Press Director John Donatich.
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Black History/Black Futures

Drs. Stephanie Richmond, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Mrs. Hillary McAndrew-Plate

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Celebrate Black History Month All Year Black History/Black Futures: The Art of Resistance features Hampton Roads’ own award-winning playwright, performer, filmmaker, and professor of Theatre at Old Dominion University, Brittney S. Harris, in conversation with Grammy-nominated, multi-award winning young composer, violinist and professor at The Juilliard School in NYC, Curtis Stewart. Renowned Historian and Endowed Professor of Virginia Black History and Culture, Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, ...
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The Black Studies Podcast

Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski

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The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.
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So You’re Living In A Simulation

@Joli.Artist, aka Your One Black Friend

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(Formerly Your One Black Friend) This podcast will make you high. Paradigm shifting, thought provoking discussions with @Joli.Artist. Here we explore the nature of our Simulated Reality Matrix through Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality, Quantum Physics, Theology, History and Current Events. Openminded, Free-Thinkers, welcome! We have Non-GMO, gluten free cookies!
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Author and Baylor University professor Robert Darden tells stories - and plays recordings - from the Baylor University Libraries' Black Gospel Music Restoration Project in an on-going weekly series of two-minute segments. Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments explores the distinctly African-American sound of the "Golden Age of Gospel" (1945-1975). The series celebrates this fertile musical period in American history, presenting cultural snapshots that reveal the depth of a people, their communit ...
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Unsolicited Perspectives

Bruce Anthony

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Join Bruce Anthony on 'Unsolicited Perspectives,' a podcast offering unique views on current events, social-political topics, race, class, and gender. As a proud University of Maryland graduate with a history degree and a long-term Washington DC resident, Bruce provides insightful commentary and engaging interviews. Don't miss 'The Sibling Happy Hour' featuring Bruce and his sister, J. Aundrea. Music By @freebeats.io www.unsolicitedperspectives.com/
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Indoor Voices

Kathleen Collins

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Conversations with scholars, creators and practitioners from around the CUNYverse (City University of New York). Produced by Kathleen Collins, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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South Bend's Own Words

IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center

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People's stories recorded from the Oral History Collection of the Civil Rights Heritage Center at the Indiana University South Bend Archives. Telling the history of the civil rights movement and the experiences of Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, and other marginalized peoples in South Bend, Indiana. For more, visit crhc.iusb.edu.
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Currents in Religion

Currents in Religion

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Currents in Religion is a podcast from the Baylor University Religion Department and Baylor University Press. We host conversations with academics, writers, and artists that explore some of the most interesting currents in religious studies, with a focus on Christianity. Episodes release weekly. On this podcast you'll hear discussions about theology, ethics, biblical studies (New Testament and Hebrew Bible/Old Testament), history, archaeology, and so on. Engage with us on Twitter (@cirbaylor ...
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Undisciplined

KUAF 91.3 Public Radio

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Undisciplined is a podcast produced in collaboration with the African and African American Studies program with the University and KUAF Public Radio. Hosted by Dr. Caree Banton, this podcast will push the confines of your traditional academic disciplines and unveil how the objectives of African and African American studies can be found in the everyday if you just look.
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It's cosmology in a cup! - Cosmic Coffee Time is bite sized podcasts making sense of space, astronomy, life, and the universe, best enjoyed with a coffee. A down to earth look at what's up there, and it's just for you spacefans. Grab a coffee and see where in the universe we go this time. Follow on Twitter @CosmicCoffTime
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American history preserved through the use of Primary sources, Black History, African American History~ The african experience; Shared by the legends themselves, their descendants, loved ones, genealogist and scholars. Presented by The Gist of Freedom
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Everyday Black History: Afro Appreciation

Everyday Black History: Afro A

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Welcome to Everyday Black History! Where we highlight the contributions of Black Men and Women both Past and present. Here we celebrate Afro Appreciation, where Black American, Africans and Latinos of African descent are honored. We also highlight Institutions that have help the advancement of people in the African Diaspora, such as historically Black University and many others. Enjoy Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/EverydayBlackHistory/support
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In Theory is the podcast of the Journal of the History of Ideas blog. The hosts of the JHI Blog team interview intellectual scholars in the fields of philosophy, literature, art history, natural and social sciences, religion, and political thought about their latest books and works. The aim of the JHI podcast is to highlight the huge diversity of intellectual history at university departments across the world.
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Take Two With Cola Cares

COLA: The College of Liberal Arts at Norfolk State University

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The College is composed of eight departments, seven of which are academic. The College of Liberal Arts consists of ten undergraduate and six graduate degree programs which are housed in the departments of: English and Foreign Languages, History and Interdisciplinary Studies, Mass Communications, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Visual and Performing Arts (which houses Music, Fine Arts, and Drama/Theater).
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Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservation

USC Master of Heritage Conservation Program

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Why do we save historic places? For whom? How can heritage conservation advance equity, justice, and climate adaptation? This podcast explores these and other issues with students at the University of Southern California, for a glimpse of the future of the field.
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Passion and Practicality: A Liberal Arts Podcast

Southern New Hampshire University Liberal Arts

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Passion and Practicality is a podcast series produced by Southern New Hampshire University‘s online Liberal Arts department, which includes academic programs and courses in Communication, Composition, Creative Writing, English, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, History, Literature, and Philosophy. In this podcast series, faculty, staff, and guests discuss the career paths open to graduates of those programs, the research and creative work of practitioners in the field, and other interesting stuff.
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Hosted by Mundanara Bayles who was born and raised in Redfern (Sydney) Australia and currently lives in Queensland. The Black Magic Woman Podcast is an uplifting conversational style program featuring mainly First Nations people from Australia and around the world sharing their stories about their journey to highlight the diversity amongst First Nations peoples and the resilience of her people. She hopes these stories inspire her listeners and also create a better understanding of what First ...
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A podcast by two media bosses forging a new news landscape. Sara Lomax and Mitra Kalita dive into politics, arts, culture and how the stories we tell change our lives. The two innovators founded URL Media to uplift Black and Brown storytelling, while running their own newsrooms WURD Radio in Philadelphia and Epicenter-NYC in Queens.
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Public Historians at Work

Center for Public History @ University of Houston

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Welcome to “Public Historians at Work,” a podcast series from the Center for Public History at the University of Houston, Texas. Our vision at CPH is to ignite an understanding of our diverse pasts by collaborating with and training historically minded students, practitioners, and the public through community-driven programming and scholarship. In this podcast series, we speak with academics, writers, artists, and community members about what it means to do history and humanities work for an ...
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Harlem Queen

Yhane Washington Smith

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"Harlem Queen" is a Black historical fiction audio drama based on the life and times of Black, woman, "gangster" Madame Stephanie St. Clair during the Harlem Renaissance (the story takes place around 1926-32). Madame St. Clair had a powerful impact on building the Harlem community underground and aboveground and defining the Harlem Renaissance. Our goal is for you to be entertained, educated, empowered and uplifted after hearing this amazing story! Written and independently produced by Yhane ...
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UAP Investigator Mike and Reverend Stu tackle E.T and Spirituality. Fueled by the July 2023 US Government UAP hearings of unknown objects, non-human intelligence, and non-human ‘biologics’, that also brought forth legislation titled “The UAP Disclosure Act“, together with the European Union hearing of similar nature in March of 2024, and statements from the Vatican not long ago; we embark on a new journey and take this conversation in a different direction by discussing the emerging question ...
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Speaking of History

Dr Gabrielle Kemmis

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Speaking of History is a podcast series which explores stories hidden within the recently digitised cassette tapes of interviews conducted in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s with former University of Sydney staff and students. This series is part of the History of University Life.
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Diversity Dialogues

Western Carolina University

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Diversity Dialogues is a podcast produced by the Communications and Marketing Department at Western Carolina University. Our roundtable discussions, led by Dr. David Walton, involve rigorous debate and discussion over issues and topics related to diversity and inclusion in our society.
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Chill popcorn movie guy Scott and high-strung Indie filmmaker Kris rate todays new releases and flicks from cinematic history. They don’t always get along or adhere to the same taste but they always have a good laugh and a hot take. Listen as Kris shatters the stereotype that all Canadians are polite.
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In this limited series, host Leonard Jones, a senior at St. Ambrose University and president of the college's Black Student Union has conversations with experts from SAU and the Quad Cities area about Black history and culture to help combat ignorance and hate with positivity and education.
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News comes at you fast. It’s not just hard to keep up with everything that’s happening, sometimes you don’t know which voices to trust to help you interpret what’s going on. That’s where Footnotes comes in. Dr. Tisby curates the week’s current events with a focus on issues related to Black communities, justice, and politics. He’ll also offer commentary from a Black Christian perspective to help you think through complex issues. Footnotes adds the details you need to be an informed citizen, a ...
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SportsJam with Doug Doyle features in-depth interviews with top athletes, coaches, reporters, authors, and fans of the sports world. WBGO News Director Doug Doyle started the award-winning podcast SportsJam in 2008. The Pennsylvania State University graduate is one of the most decorated reporters in New Jersey radio history. SportsJam with Doug Doyle was named one of the top sports podcasts in 2017, and recently claimed the first-place prize for “Best Interview Podcast” at the 2023 Public Me ...
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Brazil Unfiltered

Washington Brazil Office

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Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil. Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, sup ...
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An International Symposium funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and co-organized by the Rothermere American Institute and the Art History Department, University of Oxford and the Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. This event is also made possible due to sponsorship by the Philip Leverhulme Trust.
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Today’s book is: Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Rochester Press, 2024) by Dr. Donna J. Nicol, which examines the leadership strategies that Black women educators have employed as influential power brokers in predominantly white colleges and universities…
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This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers …
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Jackie Wang is a poet, scholar, multimedia artist, and Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void (2021), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; the critical essay collection Carceral Capital…
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Jackie Wang is a poet, scholar, multimedia artist, and Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void (2021), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; the critical essay collection Carceral Capital…
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In this episode of Black Talk Radio News with Scotty T Reid, we unpack the critical issues shaping Black political consciousness today. Why aren't Democrats addressing the key issues that matter? How has the party pushed Black voters into supporting policies tied to genocide? From the struggles of being a Black journalist to the impact of U.S. fore…
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In this episode of the Over the Bridge Podcast, Bilal and Patrick engage in a candid discussion about personal experiences, cultural identities, and childhood memories. Patrick, back from his travels, shares his experiences about visiting Thailand and reconnecting with a long-time friend. The conversation covers the influence of West Indian culture…
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Today I talked to Aliza Arzt about Turning the Pages: Conversations Through Time with Rabbi Isador Signer (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024) In 1924, Rabbi Isidor Signer was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. He had been born in Romania and raised in Montreal. He would go on to lead congregations in Bethlehem, Pennsylvan…
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Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford UP, 2024) recounts women authors' struggle to define the female intellectual through their engagement with the classical world in early modern France. Bringing together the fields of classical reception and women writers, Helena Taylor looks at various female novelists, tra…
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Send us a text In this conversation we talk with UFO Lobbyist, Stephen Basset, from Washington D.C. Stephen goes over the big picture and provides his projection for the next 90 days as it pertains to UAP / UFO Disclosure by the US Government. We also talk about the DEFCON Level and Doomsday clock. Most people are likely not aware of the current DE…
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Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the otherwise partisan abortion debate. Little attention, however, has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish their infants for private adoption. Through the lens of reproductive justice, Relinquished: The Polit…
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In 1924, the crown prince and future emperor of Ethiopia, Ras Täfäri, on a visit to Jerusalem, called on forty Armenian orphans who had survived the genocide of 1915-1916 to form his empire's royal brass band. The conductor, who was also Armenian, composed the first official anthem of the Ethiopian state. Drawing on this highly symbolic event, and …
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In The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press, 2024), Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation—rather than merit or good t…
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On this episode of Unsolicited Perspectives, Bruce Anthony is breaking down some wild conspiracy theories, like the one Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans are pushing about the government controlling hurricanes. Spoiler alert: President Biden and pretty much everyone else with common sense shut that down fast. But that leads Bruce into th…
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This is Ashley Newby and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - …
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In All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960 (Pegasus Book, 2024) richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson provides a richly detailed account to take us to the Frontline of Beauty to reveal the power, the pain and the pleasure involved in adorning the female body. At the heart of this history is the fema…
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In this episode, Dr. Jamie Goodall discusses her new book, The Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean, which describes the political, cultural, legal, and economic relationships between pirates and the coast of colonial New England. Dr. Goodall teaches American history at Southern New Hampshire University and is…
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On this week's episode we are continuing with our annual Hot Ghouls of Halloween series with Revue Cinema programer and co-host of the Movies & Chaos podcast Serena Whitney. We dig into one of her favorite films, the 80s classic Fright Night. Does Kris think it sucks? Do they end of on a weird Joker Two tangent? Does Serena drop some breaking news?…
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There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises (Rutgers UP, 2023) interrogates the representation of ostensibly powerful women in transmedia franchises, examining how presumed feminine traits—love, empathy, altruism, diplomacy—are alternately lauded and repudiated as possibilities for effecting lon…
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Before Death Valley became a desert tourism mecca, it was a mining hot spot. The homelands of the Timbisha Shoshone tribe were opened to industry during the California Gold Rush. In this “Where Are They Now?” episode, producer Willa Seidenberg talks with alumna Mary Ringhoff about her thesis on the early-twentieth-century mining town of Ryan, an un…
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This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers …
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In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Camille Robcis, Professor of History and French at Columbia University about her recent book Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Robcis traces how the Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles, together wit…
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In this episode, guest host Natalie Carnes (Baylor University) speaks with Kutter Callaway (Fuller Theological Seminary) about the past, present, and future of theology and the arts. Other Currents Episodes You Might Like: Mikeal Parsons and Robin Jensen onearly Christians and their arts: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6yQRLp1wcReeYgd5X8rdtL?si=H…
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With makeshift decor and a boom box for music, the original Seahorse was totally undistinguished, but it became a sanctuary for South Bend’s LGBTQ+ community seeking a place where they could be their whole selves. Tom Beatty was a frequent patron, and he shares his personal experiences of coming out, his family’s reactions, the challenges he lived …
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Mercedes Diez, Director of Communications and College Relations at Lehman College, and Professor Ulises Gonzales of the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Lehman discuss Professor Gonzales’s new book, La Vida Papaya en Nueva York. For more, visit IndoorVoicesPodcast.com.Indoor Voices による
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“Time for an Awakening” with Bro.Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 10/06/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guests was Activist, Reparations Organizer, Director of Reparations United, Kamm Howard, and Chief of…Elliot Booker による
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“Time for an Awakening” with Bro.Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 10/06/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guests was Activist, Reparations Organizer, Director of Reparations United, Kamm Howard, and Chief of Staff of Afrodescendant Nation, Tamara (Achoti) Singleton. The National Reparations Strategy Call to Action Meeting on Oct 11, 2024, with over 30 organizatio…
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"Time for an Awakening" with Bro.Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 10/06/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guests was Activist, Reparations Organizer, Director of Reparations United, Kamm Howard, and Chief of Staff of Afrodescendant Nation, Tamara (Achoti) Singleton. The National Reparations Strategy Call to Action Meeting on Oct 11, 2024, with over 30 organizatio…
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In this episode of Unsolicited Perspectives, Bruce Anthony and his co-host J. Aundrea take you on a wild ride from laugh-out-loud moments to sharp social commentary. They kick things off with a funny chat about getting older—those annoying nose hairs—and some throwback talk about Polaroid cameras. Then they switch gears and tackle something more se…
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In this powerful 2 part episode, I sit down with Commissioner Sue Ann Hunter, a proud Wurundjeri and Ngurai Illum Wurrung woman and commissioner at the Yoorrook Justice Commission, to discuss her multifaceted roles in advocating for child and family welfare, community representation, and systemic change, particularly focusing on the experiences and…
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This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers …
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In Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race (Emerald Publishing, 2024), Dr. Natalie Wall takes readers on a journey through the tropes and narratives of white generosity, from the onset of the African slave trade to contemporary efforts to ridicule and undermine the “woke agenda.” She offers a theoretical framework for…
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Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known about the Manila trade. The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) offers the first reconstruction of the capital market of Manila using new archival sou…
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How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Torsh speaks with Lynnette Arnold about her new book Living Together Across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families (Oxford University Press, 2024). Lynnette also shares her tips …
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In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation's collective imagination of the era. But it also stopped the publication of another important novel, silencing a gifted writer who was more intimately connected to the true experiences of Dust Bowl migrants. In …
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Today I talked to Christopher Paul Clohessy about Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî (Gorgias Press, 2020). As Abû ʿAbd Allâh al-Ḥusayn, son of ʿAlî and Fâṭima and grandson of Muḥammad, moved inexorably towards death on the field of Karbalâʾ, his sister Zaynab was drawn ever closer to the centre of the family of Muḥammad, t…
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Today I talked to Christopher Paul Clohessy about Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî (Gorgias Press, 2020). As Abû ʿAbd Allâh al-Ḥusayn, son of ʿAlî and Fâṭima and grandson of Muḥammad, moved inexorably towards death on the field of Karbalâʾ, his sister Zaynab was drawn ever closer to the centre of the family of Muḥammad, t…
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In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation's collective imagination of the era. But it also stopped the publication of another important novel, silencing a gifted writer who was more intimately connected to the true experiences of Dust Bowl migrants. In …
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Send us a text In this conversation we talk with Ms. Tania Vassie, the primary witness to the Westall UFO mass sighting event in Australia, that took place in 1966. Tania only recently started talking about the event publicly, and we are honored to share some time with her as Tania confirms some facts and clears up some possible mysteries about wha…
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This episode explores the activism of Black Teachers in the 1950s. When a number of teachers lost their jobs during the desegregation period, they sprang into action triggering the actions of the NAACP. As public education became a highly contested terrain, teachers moved to the forefront in this oft-forgotten chapter of the Civil Rights Movement.…
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Luke Wilkinson interviews Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Oxford, to discuss her and Eva Schlotheuber's new book 'The Life of Nuns: Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents' (Open Book Publishers, 2024). They discuss the ideas that circulated through the sounds and spac…
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