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Poet Malcolm London, 17, is a senior at Lincoln Park High School and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a
member of team Youmedia Chicago.
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- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:11
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
On her way home from her grandmother's funeral in 1996, Carmen happens to meet a remarkable African-American guitarist in a thrift shop in North Ca...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 3
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nu...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 3
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
Blind since a hiking accident in 1971, Charles Blackwell has not let his disability prevent him from becoming a vibrant visual artists. In this seg...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 1
What is "The Black Experience"?
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 10, 2010
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 3
Ayana Contreras explores the motivation behind "playing the numbers", or the lottery.
- Added: Mar 10, 2010
- Length: 09:46
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
Environmental activist and White House advisor Van Jones believes in making his late father proud.
- Added: May 07, 2009
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 4
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton believe in forgiveness, but from different perspectives.
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 4
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré believes hard work can build character and promote freedom.
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 04:03
- Purchases: 6
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 15
Marijuana has made big news again: The Michael Phelps photo and backlash against Kellogg's; The arrest of George Obama in Kenya and CNBC's Marijuan...
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 29:33
Environmental activist Majora Carter believes in making the old neighborhood a better place to live.
- Added: Feb 09, 2009
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 3
Michael Gabby wasn't too optimistic going into the election. Now he's proud to believe in America.
- Added: Feb 09, 2009
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 2
From: Chris Goldstein
Is Marijuana Prohibition Enforcement Institutionalized Racism? 85% of all the possession arrests in New York City and Philadelphia are mirrors to G...
- Added: Feb 05, 2009
- Length: 03:50
Educator and social activist Geoffrey Canada says he believes all children can learn and succeed.
Bought by WEZU, WCSU-FM, WEZU, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jan 05, 2009
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 4
In no longer fighting her kinky hair, Toya Marshall believes she found the freedom to be herself.
Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KUOW, and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Jan 05, 2009
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 4
Will Wright has been wondering: how will the New Year and Pres. Obama affect African-American men - their attitudes and futures?
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: 03:12
Basic facts and about elephants from Carol Buckley, founder of The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, plus a personal elephant story from NY Times be...
- Added: Dec 03, 2008
- Length: 07:06
