African-American Civil Rights Movement
The Essay. Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 3. The Canoe Song. Audio, 14 minutes
Paul Robeson's life and struggle told through music. Matthew Sweet on the Canoe Song.
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The Essay. Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 2. Ol' Man River. Audio, 14 minutes
The life of Paul Robeson in songs. Granddaughter Susan Robeson on Ol' Man River.
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The Essay. Paul Robeson in Five Songs: 1. No More Auction Block. Audio, 14 minutes
Paul Robeson's life and struggle through song. Shana Redmond on No More Auction Block.
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The Essay. Paul Robeson in Five Songs, 5. Joe Hill. Audio, 14 minutes
Marybeth Hamilton on the two ghosts of Joe Hill and Paul Robeson and their linked fates.
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The Essay. Paul Robeson in Five Songs, 4. Zog Nit Keynmol. Audio, 14 minutes
Tayo Aluko explores Paul Robeson's anguished 1949 Moscow performance of Zog Nit Keynmol.
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The Essay. Paul Robeson in Five Songs, 3. The Canoe Song. Audio, 14 minutes
Mathew Sweet unravels the complex threads of Paul Robeson's rendition of the Canoe Song.
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The Essay. Paul Robeson in Five Songs, 2. Ol' Man River. Audio, 14 minutes
Susan Robeson tells how her grandfather transformed Ol' Man River into a song of defiance.
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The Essay. Paul Robeson in Five Songs, 1. No More Auction Block. Audio, 14 minutes
The life and struggle of Paul Robeson through song. Shana Redmond on No More Auction Block
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- Posted28 March 2020
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- Posted25 March 2020
You're Dead to Me. Josephine Baker. Audio, 50 minutes
Greg Jenner and the team take us to 1920s Paris to meet the phenomenal Josephine Baker.
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Great Lives. Andi Oliver on Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. Audio, 28 minutes
Andi Oliver chooses the Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
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- Posted19 January 2020
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- Posted30 December 2019
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- Posted28 October 2019
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- Posted27 September 2019
Witness History. Free breakfast with the Black Panthers. Audio, 9 minutes
The revolutionary Black Panther Party provided free breakfasts for local schoolchildren.
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- Posted11 September 2019
Witness History. Nina Simone moves to Liberia. Audio, 9 minutes
The great African-American jazz singer moved to West Africa in 1974.
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Witness History. The murder of black teenager Emmett Till. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Mississippi
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Arts & Ideas. Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy. Audio, 34 minutes
Nina Simone’s achievement with Kevin Legendre, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Zena Edwards
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Archive on 4. The British Black Panthers. Audio, 57 minutes
The untold story of when Black Power came to Britain and forever left its mark.
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- Posted4 July 2019
Witness History. The assassinaton of Medgar Evers. Audio, 9 minutes
The American civil rights activist and war hero who was murdered in 1963 in Mississippi.
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