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Rudy Martin sets out in the pre-dawn darkness to find a legendary fishing spot, Gale Gill starts her engine and gets ready for takeoff, and Bradi R...
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Travel offers new experiences; some more pleasant than others. Dottie Lou Norwood shares an unusual nightly ritual, Brittany Edwardes escapes schoo...
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
“Palestinian Hoop Dreams” is a thoughtful story by Ahmed Hemeid, a Palestinian student at United World College. Ahmed’s tells us an amazing story t...
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
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
Abdul Kadir Farah, a Minneapolis Edison high school senior, is one of many Minneapolis high school students who collect college credit while still ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
When you play high school volleyball, you have to learn the moves that make your team competitive. April Nelson tells us about it.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
As you step up from one level of school to the next, there is added responsibility, Simorra Jones, a Minneapolis Edison high school student tells u...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
Lee Mier is a student manager of the Minneapolis Edison girls basketball team. It was exciting to get to the championship game last year.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
If there is one thing that is on the minds of every high school student, it is getting into college. Sarah Griefnagen, a student at Minneapolis Edi...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
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
At Minneapolis Edison High School, the football coach places a lot of defensive responsibility on the linebackers. And that suits student Jesse Cla...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
"Family Tree" is a short piece written and produced by Andres Ortiz. His piece is a journey into Ortiz's unknown family history. Growing up being...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 06:08
- Purchases: 1
This week on Culture Clique, Olympian John Register speaks to us about the disabled community. While training for the 1996 Olympics, Register fell ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 31:46
- Purchases: 1
"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison ...
Bought by WGDR
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 14:58
- Purchases: 1
A personal reflection on the stakes of becoming the godfather to my best friend's first child.
- Added: Dec 25, 2010
- Length: 09:59
Aspergers, in my opinion, has always been misunderstood due to it being a medical "condition." When you listen to this, I ask that you go in with ...
Bought by HowSound, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR and more
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 8
Heidi was adopted from Iran when she was three years old and raised in blue-blood Virginia. She will never be able to find her biological mother, b...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 4
Today we continue our conversation and lecture on Race Manners with Bruce A. Jacobs. In our interview we ask about what cities in the US are have t...
- Added: Oct 23, 2010
- Length: 31:29
Sarah Haskins (comedienne, Infomania's "Target Women" series) discusses how pregnancy has inspired her to prepare for the end of the world. Recorde...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 09:16
- Purchases: 1
Those who pursue a life in the spotlight have a lot of tough decisions to make about the things they choose to participate in. At the end of the da...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 1
Don't worry if your clothes aren't waterproof, your ears definitely are!
- Added: Oct 31, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Tales of a taxi driver in the after hours of the night
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 15:05
- Added: Sep 30, 2009
- Length: 02:00
Tired of chasing personal prosperity, Eve Birch now believes in an American dream of shared success.
- Added: May 13, 2009
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 8
To be the “Greatest of All Time,” boxing legend Muhammad Ali says you have to believe in yourself.
Bought by WEZU, KRZA, KFAI Minneapolis, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM and more
- Added: May 13, 2009
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 10
