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From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Veteran and retired police sergeant Homer Craig (b.1939) reflects on family and community life in Hazelwood based on interviews conducted by teens...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Malik Bankston, Executive Director, The Kingsley Center (b. 1962), reflects on his college experience and his desire to better his community based ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Pastor and retired paratrooper Donald Turner (b. 1936) reflects on racial tension in his adolescent years and his faith in God based on interviews ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 13:10
Vocalo contributor Alex Thibodeau talks about growing up biracial outside of Detroit… without the benefit of knowing his Jamaican father. He shares...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 10:55
- Purchases: 2
Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 23:59
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 2
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
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:52
The musical story of "ASHFORD & SIMPSON", today plus the celebration of the life of NICHOLAS ASHFORD (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011). ASHFORD & SIM...
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WJAB, and WVAS
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 57:46
- Purchases: 3
Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
When Afi Scruggs digitized an interview with her late grandmother, she recalled truism about technology: every time a format changes, important inf...
- Added: May 26, 2011
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 3
In 1965 the Southern Christian leadership Conference (SCLC) joined a Joanne Bland is the co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Insti...
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 31:50
- Purchases: 2
High School is not an easy time of life. Minneapolis Edison students Breanna Koger and Jazzmin Keys collaborate to tell the world about it.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
