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USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor Leonard Brown
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
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Leonard Brown, USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor, aA native of Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover community, Leonard Brown (b.1934) reflects o...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
More Than A Game
From: Jimmy Gutierrez
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There’s a picture that’s usually painted while working with at-risk youth. The success story. But things are usually far more complicated. Jimmy Gu...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 08:15
Raising a Police Officer
From: Missouri Audio Project
Series: Summer Story Workshop, 2015
Caption: Raymond Summerville, Credit: Meredith Turk
Raymond Summerville uncovers the surprising and troubled past of George Hatton, a beloved citizen of Columbia, Missouri, whom neighborhood children...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:58
NYC Student Tackles the Last Test Standing Between Her and a High School Diploma
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
Caption: Danielle Motindabeka in the WNYC studio
When Radio Rookie Danielle Motindabeka came to the United States at age 13, she didn’t speak English. By the time she was in high school, Danielle ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
Jeff's Diary: Revisited
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast
Caption: Jeff Rogers
When Jeff Rogers was 16 years old he started referring to himself as a “halfrican.” Jeff has a black father and a white mother. And like many teena...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 19:02
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2 - Hip-hop Artist One Be Lo: What Does it Mean to be "American"
From: Noah Chandler
Series: Imagine 2050 Podcast
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Interview with indie hip-hop artist, One Be Lo.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:15
Need to Know Rochester: Black Males at Risk
From: WXXI Rochester
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To be black and male in America carries with it a certain baggage. Two out of three black male students in Rochester are failing to graduate. "Need...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 27:10
We Thought He Had a Black Heart
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is m...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Children of Refugees
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
Caption: Liz Peter takes her siblings swimming in Seattle., Credit: Chantal Anderson
Once a refugee family has been here for a while, the children often become ambassadors to the outside world. It's the kids who have to translate fo...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 1
Gamun-Pyul
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Flushing 2010
Caption: Rayon Wright with K-Pop Artist JYP
18 year old Caribbean American, Rayon Wright, sets out to be a K-Pop producer.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 3
Music Behind A Locked Door
From: Todd Cross
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Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center in Syracuse, New York works with troubled youth - yet it isn't a "lock em up, throw away the key" kind of place...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 1
Rob Robinson and Beverly Corbin
From: Rachel Falcone
Series: Housing is a Human Right Storytelling Project Vol. 1
Caption: Young man walking in Brooklyn, Credit: Michael Premo
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. Shortly after being promoted and relocated from New York to Miami, Rob Robinson is laid off a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 13:07
  • Purchases: 1
Thanksgiving
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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Youth producer Rochelle Smith gets to the real meaning of Thanksgiving with her family. Produced at LBJ High School in Austin, Texas, as a part of...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Mar 02, 2011
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 2
A Young Scholar vs. the Recession
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thomas McCall, a 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be, was already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produc...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:39
Kady Amundson - "The Mentor"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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University of Tennessee graduate Kady Amundson’s days rarely end when school is over. At the start of her Teach for America assignment, her school ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 06:16
Colleston Morgan - "The Realist"
From: Learning Matters
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Meet Harvard graduate Colleston Morgan. His first two years as a Teach for America teacher were highly successful. So why did he leave the classro...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
"The Perfectionist"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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She graduated from Princeton. She enrolled in Teach for America, worked hard and really wanted to be a role model. So why didn’t this teacher get t...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
Bayoji Akingbola - "The Victim of Circumstance"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
Finding a Voice in New Orleans
From: Learning Matters
Series: Paul Vallas in New Orleans
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Deputy Superintendent Michael Haggen discusses how new programs are helping students in New Orleans' alternative schools develop a voice.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:06
The 'Courage' to Graduate
From: Learning Matters
Series: Paul Vallas in New Orleans
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Khalil Osiris’ “Circle of Courage” is one strategy the Booker T. Washington middle school is using to try and help students stay out of trouble and...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:30
Incarcerated Parents
From: Radio Rookies
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15-year-old Keith Tingman remembers his tenth birthday better than any other birthday before or since. That was the day he watched his mom get arre...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Vocalo.org, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 4
Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)
From: Nancy Solomon
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This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...

Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 40
Khadija's Dream Routine
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Khadija Hussein is fourteen, and a Somali refugee living in Lewiston, Maine.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:12
  • Purchases: 1
A mother's interview
From: Nurudeen Titilope
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A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:49
Legal Emancipation
From: Radio Rookies
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At 15 emancipation has brought both freedom and hardship for Radio Rookie Jordan Teklay. Now 17, he's trying to understand what it means to be an a...

Bought by The Story, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 4