All Pieces for Ayana Contreras

 
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The Road to Rehabilitation is littered with good intentions and foreclosures. Host Audra Wilson discovers that many Americans were literally addic...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Oct 10, 2010
  • Length: 09:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Old record albums are plastic testaments to dreams: sometimes distant, forgotten dreams of their makers. Sidney Barnes wrote a song called "Stone ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:38
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Are African-American parents that choose unique or African-sounding names putting their children at a disadvantage? Is society unduly prejudiced ag...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 10:22
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 3
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Ayana Contreras explores the motivation behind "playing the numbers", or the lottery.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 09:46
Caption: the Arcelor Mittal Steel Mill, East Chicago, IN.  Formerly Inland Steel, Credit: Ayana Contreras
Recorded by fellow retired steelworker Joe Gutierrez, and produced by Ayana Contreras, this piece was created for Vocalo.org in conjunction with Th...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: Jeremy Shine, Credit: Ayana Contreras
Jeremy talks about what role media plays in the violence that plagues so many of our communities. He also tells what the plague robbed him of. Re...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2009
  • Length: 02:52
Caption: Minnie Riperton with Sidney Barnes on album cover
Singer, Musician, and Producer Sidney Barnes tells me the story of how singer Minnie Riperton came to accept her voice as beautiful.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:46