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Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
February 1st is National Freedom Day, made into a holiday due to one man's efforts.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Perfection is overrated. Artist Kay Black creates custom dolls that reflect imperfections as true, one-of-a-kind beauty.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Actor and director Tyler Perry is drawing on his own painful past to give others a better future.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:27
Caption: Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976), The Cotton Bowl, from the series Strange Fruit, 2011. Chromogenic print. , Credit: . Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Copyright Hank Willis Thomas
Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ first major retrospective, “All Things Being Equal” is open at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Thomas’s work addresses the on...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 05:29
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How does historical wellness play out in race and gender? Tune in to learn about historical wellness and its relation to a Black student’s and Bla...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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An interview with Dylan Howard, author of "Bad" and "Royals at War"

  • Added: Jul 25, 2020
  • Length: 22:23
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Amari Poindexter, 17, says the indifferent attitudes and racism of people during the coronavirus in coastal North Carolina remind her of how her pe...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:06
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Le'Shawna Brunson-Smith says the stimulus bill won't be much of a help making up for the incoming she's losing during the coronavirus.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Diana Tootle, 58, lives in Morehead City, North Carolina. Tootle speaks to the intersection between Hurricane Florence and COVID-19 in her historic...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
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Melvin Dunn, 41, is a shrimper in Beaufort, North Carolina. Dunn lost a shrimp season with Hurricane Dorian last September and now faces further im...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Mar 29, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Marsha Corbett talks about how coronavirus is impacting her life and her small business - the restaurant Nippy's Soul Food in Wilmington, North Car...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Mar 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
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“My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” -Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County P...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:22
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On this edition of Making Contact we present, The Struggle Inside: The Murder of George Jackson, a program about the modern anti-prison movement.

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Overcoming racism and low expectations
Lenzy R. Wallace Jr., PH.D., an African American, has had three successful careers, succeeding despite the odds. At 90 years old and actively retir...

  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 39:01
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Since 2014 the department of justice and President Obama have been working to right the wrongs of the war on drugs. Through Clemency, Obama has com...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 15:28
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Anthony Braxton. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn why ...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 14
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Students all over Philadelphia are being pushed out of schools and right into the school to prison pipeline. This is happening because of the lack ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:45
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The Colored Musicians Club is one of Buffalo’s oldest music venues. Jazz giants from Count Basie to Billie Holiday played there, but even with the ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:24
Caption: One Hello World, Credit: http://www.theonlymagicleftisart.com/
How could anybody be blind to the fact that, underneath it all, we’re all just shadows?

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 3
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Race issue in America's whitest communities.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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One-hour documentary **UPDATED for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

Bought by WVAS, WMNF, WRVO Public Media, KMUN, KWIT and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 55:36
  • Purchases: 8
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The Racial Wealth Gap

  • Added: Feb 11, 2008
  • Length: 28:00
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Two years ago, 166 Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans ended up in Omaha, Nebraska. Two years out, one man is trying hard--perhaps too hard...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT-HD


  • Added: Dec 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 2
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Life on Mississippi Porches

Bought by KUT and The Story


  • Added: Sep 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 2