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The Healing Place
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Cass Lake, 1908
In 2016, genealogist Mica L. Anders interviewed 7 families about their summer cabins in the north woods of Minnesota for the Minnesota Historical S...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:42
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 8
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories that revisit the past.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 50:30
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis and Ernest Jarvis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Dr. Charles Drew, pictured in a lab at Howard University in 1942, was known as the father of blood banking for pioneering the way we store and transport blood today., Credit: Dr. Charlene Jarvis
In the 1940s, Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon and blood scientist, and today he is known as the “Father of Blood Banks.” His daughter, Dr. Charlene ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 2
On Passing
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 32:46
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Rohulamin Quander and Alicia Argrett
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Rohulamin Quander at his home in Washington D.C. in 2016 and Alicia Argrett in Madison, Mississippi in 2010., Credit: Rohulamin Quander and Alicia Argrett.
An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: John Lewis and Valerie Jackson
From: StoryCorps
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John Lewis remembers how Dr. King’s words inspired him to join the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WYAP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 8
StoryCorps Griot: Carol Barner--Seay, Shirley Reese , Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Carol Barne---Seay, Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis
In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay , Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for p...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:02
I Will Not Fear: Melba Beals of the Little Rock Nine
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Melba Beals
Melba Beals, one of the nine African-American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, tells her story of faith under fire.

Bought by WHYY and WETS


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Dion Diamond
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dion Diamond talks about the risks he took as a young civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Hampton Years
From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show
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Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton explores the education of famous artists John Biggers and Samella Lewis.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 50:20
Life of the Law #110: In Studio San Quentin: Unequal Protection
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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What does color of skin have to do with equal access to justice in America? The Equal Protection Clause, part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitu...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2017
  • Length: 48:40
StoryCorps: Duery Felton and Rick Weidman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Duery Felton (right) and Rick Weidman (left)
The first curator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection talks with his friend and fellow war veteran about the collection and his service.

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, WMUU-LP, and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 3
The Warmth of the Other Suns
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: American Black Male Leadership Institute Radio
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Alfred Bundy and Kevin Jenkins in conversation about this book.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 18:57
A Charleston Feast for Reconciliation (Gravy Ep. 17)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Chef Kevin Mitchell at the Nat Fuller Feast of 2015, Credit: Photo by Jonathan Boncek
Charleston, South Carolina has become the center of discussions about race and violence in America these past few weeks. But a dinner party held in...

Bought by KVLU, WJCT, and WABE


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 3
Reenacting The Last Mass Lynching in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The last mass lynching in the U.S. took place back in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. The case remains open, but one group stages an annual re-enactment i...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
With New Focus, Episcopal Church Of Louisiana Addressing A History Of Racism
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Caption: Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church., Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
The Episcopal Church of Louisiana spent the past year making plans for a new ministry, aiming to address its history of racism, as well as other fo...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
A Blues Unlimited Special: In Their Own Words - A Conversation with the Blues
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Following Harriet Tubman
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's News Features
Caption: The Bucktown Village Store where Harriet Tubman received a head injury that would impact her entire life, Credit: courtesy of Andrew Hiller
This feature explores the life and some of the myths of Harriet Tubman with interviews by experts from Cambridge, MD, the town where "Moses" was bo...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 3
No Argument Here
From: With Good Reason
Caption: James Farmer, Credit: Library of Congress
A college professor is following the footsteps of a civil rights icon James Farmer, by training his students in the art of debate. Lydia Wilson, ...

Bought by KUAC, WJAB, WCSU-FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Searching for Roots
From: Philip Graitcer
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Searching for African American ancestors is not easy

  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:28