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The question of whether and how to compensate descendants of people formerly enslaved in the United States has hung over the country since the end ...
Bought by KRCB 104.9
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 03:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
A college education can leave some students with a health debt.
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WLPR
- Added: Dec 23, 2017
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 5
Award-winning African-American author Bernice L. McFadden reads from her novel, Nowhere Is A Place, the second of two readings from this book featu...
- Added: Dec 11, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Teaser answer: He was a superb athlete but native to another country! Find out who as author Scott Ellsworth reads from The Secret Game: A Wartime ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2015
- Length: 01:40
...To her late Eritrean-American husband, Ficre -- a painter, chef, and loving father -- in Elizabeth Alexander's new memoir, The Light Of The Worl...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Winner of the 2013 Whiting Award for non-fiction, author Clifford Thompson reads from his memoir, Twin of Blackness. Just one sample of our daily c...
- Added: Jul 04, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Award-winning reporter and author Kevin Cook reads from his lively, anecdotal new book, The Dad Report: Fathers, Sons, and Baseball Families. Here,...
- Added: Jun 07, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Another authentic author's voice -- Jo Ivestor reads from her touching book, The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960's Deep South. Her true sto...
- Added: May 03, 2015
- Length: 01:40
African-American author LaShonda Katrice Barnett, interviewed recently on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (2/8/15), reads here from her heralded new n...
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
A news report from Santa Monica, California on "Reclaim MLK" actions there.
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 04:42
...And Other Essays is the book's title, by author Clifford Thompson who reads a passage here. Observations with wit about life and people, from m...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Author Sam Roberts reads about a civil rights pioneer indeed, from his new book. Another example of our daily 100-second show -- great for top-of-t...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 01:40
100-second module, from our readings for May. A city gal inherits a sugar cane farm.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Runaway slaves often hid in self-made caves.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Fifteen, 3-minute vignettes celebrating the contributions of African Americans in classical music.
Bought by Texas Public Radio, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM, Texas Public Radio, Vermont Public, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and more
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 45:00
- Purchases: 10
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Sep 05, 2013
- Length: 04:49
A young boy's father is killed in Somalia, as he makes his way to a camp in Kenya. After a long journey, now in the US, he doesn't feel discriminat...
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 08:51
Tannah and Coley are twin Gospel musicians living in an economically depressed community. Beyond the stereotypes we discover how two high-schoolers...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 15:02
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:54
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:12
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:13
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:54
Gladys DeVane received Bloomington’s Lifetime Contribution Award on Tuesday, one of three local women honored. The theme of this year's event was "...
- Added: Mar 08, 2012
- Length: 09:45
