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Caption: Rita Dove, Credit: Photo of Rita Dove by Fred Viebahn
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 24:10
Caption: Reverend Patricia Gould-, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Reverend Patricia Gould-Champ, a woman affectionately referred to as the Queen Mother, which, in her case, is not a petty, royal appellation. Rathe...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 26:36
Caption: State Senator Jennifer McClellan, Credit: Charles McGuigan
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 26:48
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Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:06
Caption: Rose Simmons
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 27:51
Caption: Carlton Johnson
There’s a man in a small city thirty miles south of Richmond Virginia whose business was pretty much wiped out by the Coronavirus pandemic. But des...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 12:26
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedmad
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 26:22
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 20:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Virginia State Penitentiary
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:05
Caption: Ed Peeples
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 09, 2019
  • Length: 25:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Charles McGuigan
David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:19
Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:11
Caption: Protesters and counter protesters, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 26:39
Caption: The Clarys on the front porch of their home in Blackwell., Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Anthony Clary grew up in the bricks. Buildings linear as Legos, lining block after block of city streets, stretching from Porter to Dinwiddie, from...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 26:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Darian Wyatt., Credit: Charles McGuigan
At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 2
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With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 47:05
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It’s not surprising that many of the medicines we use today are derived from plants. The surprising part is how similar the molecular components of...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 35:36
Caption: Brian "Scoop" Nemeth, Credit: Noel Black
In this episode of Wish We Were here, we tell the story of Brian "Scoop" Nemeth, a man with high-functioning autism whose singular goal in life is ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:05
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This episode of ARRVLS chronicles one woman's journey to find solace and happiness in the wake of tragedy. A story about faith and the legacy of su...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 30:04
Caption: The Purdy family pose in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1984 when all four kids were in high school. From left, Kristen, Ron, Jessica, Hoãng Stephen, David and Pamela Purdy., Credit: Photo courtesy Pamela Chatterton Purdy
For more than forty years, Reverend David Purdy and his wife Pamela saw themselves as the heroes in their own story – white people who were civil r...

Bought by WJCT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 14:10
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: King Poster, Credit: Nicolene DuToit
King Stories is a one hour documentary of captivating stories told by close friends and associates of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Host Julian Bond,...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRWG, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 54:26
  • Purchases: 88
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Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 55:38
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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
Caption: Carolyn Parham, Credit: SpeakeasyDC
A mother of two faces a life-altering crisis when, just a few months out of rehab, a $5,000 check appears in her mailbox.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 28, 2010
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 3
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An interview with pioneering African-American radio disk jockey,The Magnificent Montague"

Bought by WJSU and KSJD


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 57:53
  • Purchases: 2