Award-Winning Audio Documentaries
Between Civil War and Civil Rights
This partially-completed audio documentary series, originally broadcast on public radio nationwide, explores roots of and remedies for what may be America’s most powerful and lasting predicament: the racial divide resulting in part from the longest, bloodiest, most successful campaign of domestic terrorism and propaganda in U.S. history. It highlights the historic (and heroic) role of minorities in fighting for democratic values and justice nationwide.

What’s New
Cultural Aggression?
What makes creative cooperation and borrowing into appropriation and exploitation?
America’s Culture
“Jazz is America’s classical music.” Agree or not, African culture is an essential enriching part of U.S. American culture, and world culture and commerce….
Has “Black History Month” Outlived Its Usefulness?
When Carter G. Woodson first called for a Negro History Week...
Definitions
RACE: is a visceral experience of human heterogeneity, of cultural insularity or “tribalism.”

PROGRAMS
Between Civil War and Civil Rights
This ongoing series explores roots of and remedies for what may be America’s most powerful and lasting predicament: the racial divide resulting in part from the longest, bloodiest, most successful campaign of domestic terrorism and propaganda in U.S. history. It highlights the historic (and heroic) role of minorities in fighting for democratic values and justice nationwide.
A documentary and public forum program covering Florida’s Peoples, Culture and In/migration. Florida has always beckoned to newcomers, whether entering overseas or overland. From the peoples now known as “Seminoles” to the “snow-birds” and “undocumented immigrants” of today, how has the host-society dealt with incomers?
Living and Learning
Use our award-winning public radio documentary programs to frame and reframe U.S. history. Download our free teaching materials, and develop, improve and extend them. Listening Between the Lines has developed …
Finding Fairness, Building Community and Justice
Explore ways to not be condemned to repeating the past (to paraphrase George Santayana). Hear some examples of forums and ideas for using our programs in your community. Help yourself to free downloads …
Go Deeper
Listen to our documentaries entire. Join us for new and ongoing projects. Research in our archives and share your own knowledge, experience, ideas and questions. See and hear the latest from our members …
Collaborate/Participate
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Listen back to move forward: hear the roots of today’s dilemmas and divisions in our award-winning public radio documentaries. Learn how our past paved the road to our present. Put yourself back in time and forward in action—by LISTENING BETWEEN THE LINES.
PROJECTS
Listening Between the Lines invites you to join in completing the Between Civil War and Civil Rights documentary-series; developing it as a multimedia/ multiplatform work; and using our products, including this website, to promote public discussion of race, cultural and ethnic difference, and class. Click on the slides to the right to learn more about, and contribute your own ideas, work, and resources, to each of these projects.