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When Carlos Acosta was a kid, he wanted to be the next Michael Jackson. He spent all his time break-dancing in the streets of Havana. Until one day...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 23:02
After a crime occurs, or when someone dies, the police aren’t responsible for cleaning up. That’s not their job. The coroner takes the body, the po...
- Added: Jan 24, 2020
- Length: 19:11
We asked members of Tucson's black community to share insight on topics related to their blackness.
A series of short segments designed for broadca...
- Added: Jan 17, 2020
- Length: 14:29
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 08:36
Linda Romero shares her coming out story with Lola. This is part one.
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 03:45
Kiera will be a senior at the University of Arizona this fall majoring in biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology. She is currently researc...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 04:59
In this interview, TC Tolbert and Erin Russ talk about the importance of community participation and some of the progress we've made in our own com...
- Added: Aug 15, 2019
- Length: 03:33
In the first part of our conversation with Dr. Imad Rasheed, we talked about his work at the University of Baghdad creating a post-graduate program...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 04:25
TC Tolbert interviews Eve Rifkin about queer mothering.
In Our Own Voices offers listeners a glimpse into the experiences of the various voices th...
- Added: Jul 26, 2019
- Length: 04:11
Tucson's poet laureate TC Tolbert talks with Rosie P. about Queer Identity.
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 04:18
Within the first days of the First Lebanon War, two families become unfortunately intertwined through the coincidence of their name.
- Added: Nov 15, 2018
- Length: 29:26
Hijab. A Muslim woman’s headscarf has become a flashpoint for assumptions, discrimination, and controversy. And all too often the hijab is talked a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Wade Nygren has incredible athletic ability. Because of several exceptional performances during cross-country races at his middle school, his high ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 03:09
ne of the businesses that has been growing within the sector of organizational planners is Erin Condren. Erin talks with Sophia Breton about how sh...
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 04:23
Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 06:21
The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...
- Added: May 08, 2013
- Length: 28:16
Vocalist and songwriter Gretchen Parlato's music is introspective and crafted with a knowing touch. Winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocalis...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 15:06
- Purchases: 4
David talks about being training to trained to teach high school mathematics, the importance of native high school students having some native teac...
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 2
George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, has created countless festivals worldwide and can be connected to every important jazz musician ...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 15:27
- Purchases: 1
"...This country lookin' guy was standing there in the door, waiting for
me to tell him what to do. So I said, 'play something!' He took out his ...
Bought by KMUW, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 19:40
- Purchases: 4
“Essentially Ellington…really made me feel like I could be part of something bigger, musically. Meeting all these other young people from around th...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KREV-LP
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 2
"And he said we’ll I don’t want to play any of those 7s or 11s or 13s or
22s. I don’t want to play any of that stuff that you’re writing. He said
b...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 11:32
- Purchases: 3
"There’s an interesting thing that happens. You prepare a piece. You rehearse it. It sounds perfect...And you go out and play it on the first night...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 16:42
- Purchases: 4
"There’s a certain thing on the bandstand that every now and then – not every night, not every composition – there comes a point when the collectiv...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and 90.5 WSNC
- Added: Nov 11, 2011
- Length: 15:31
- Purchases: 5
“You always have to have boundaries. If you don’t have boundaries, you don’t have art. There has to be controls and boundaries. Otherwise when does...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU
- Added: Oct 25, 2011
- Length: 12:15
- Purchases: 3
