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Richard Mosse Brings Beauty, Suffering Into Focus At Dayton Art Institute Exhibit
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: Richard Mosse in front of one of his Aerochrome images
Richard Mosse’s images of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of The Congo, are shot on film which is no longer made. In the past, it ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
Resistance and Resilience: The Cultural Legacy of the Black Panther Party
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Refa Senay
The Black Panther Party combined Black Power’s militancy with socialist ideology, and infused funk music with Franz Fanon’s writings. Their impact...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Being Black In Blue: A Profile Of A Police Officer
From: Emily Corwin
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Nashua, NH Police Sergeant, Lakeisha Phelps is one of two black police officers on a force with 176 police officers, in one of New Hampshire’s most...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Jitney: A Conversation with Lou Bellamy and T. Mychael Rambo
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Abdul Salaam El Razzac, Doub; Terry Bellamy, Turnbo, Credit: Penumbra Theatre
Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul is one of America's first black theater companies. This month, "Jitney" — a play by the great August Wilson — returns ...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 28:34
Black Lives Matter protest shapes Ohio ballot
From: George Drake, Jr.
Caption: Black Lives Matter protesters take over city hall in Columbus, OH., Credit: George Drake, Jr.
Black Lives Matter protesters take over a city council meeting to protest against police killings of blacks, and how Ty're King's death overlapped ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
Life of the Law #90: Kids Doing Life
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Melva Washington Toomer and John Washington
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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John Washington, 95, who is blind and deaf, recently recorded a StoryCorps interview with his eldest child, Melva, using a TeleBraille machine.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRIR


  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Law #88: Clemency
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Since 2014 the department of justice and President Obama have been working to right the wrongs of the war on drugs. Through Clemency, Obama has com...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 15:28
Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
From: Nicki Stein
Caption: Mary D. Williams, Credit: ncstatecapitol.org
Throughout the summer of 2016, this country has been reeling in the wake of profound injustice. As racial tensions swell, is it possible that somet...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:45
Track Life by Hakeem
From: YMCA/YSVP Story Squad
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An emotional and poetic tour of a day in the life of a youth at Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 07:13
#SayHerName: Black Love in Action
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jamison and Yuvette at the BART Station going to Disney on Ice, Credit: Photo provided by Jamison Robinson
Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson’s brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the poli...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 45: Just Mercy
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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As a law student, Bryan Stevenson was sent to a maximum security prison to meet a man on death row. The man told Stevenson he’d never met an Africa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 24:56
  • Purchases: 2
Muhammad Ali-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Muhammad Ali, Credit: Gordon Parks
"Float like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee...". This is my tribute to Muhammad Ali. An impressionistic mix of sound and music dedicated to "The Grea...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:42
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 43: 39 Shots
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1979, a group of labor organizers protested outside a Ku Klux Klan screening of the 1915 white supremacist film, The Birth of a Nation. Nelson J...

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:53
Lana on Lana
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Lana Williams is serving life without parole. Here she describes a typical day.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:39
Nikkia the Kingpin
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
When Nikkia Sullivan was 13 she set out to become a Kingpin.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:45
The Heart and Soul Of Community
From: Steven Scher
Series: On The Bus
Caption: On The Bus
For all the ways we devise to pull communities apart, people find ways to rebuild.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Selma 50th Anniversary Postcard
From: WUAL
Caption: 70,000 people gathered in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 2015 to remember the 50th anniversary of "bloody Sunday", Credit: Alabama Pubic Radio
On 2/24/2016 President Obama will present the Selma voting rights marchers the Congressional Gold Medal. On March 7, 1965, the marchers were attack...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:57
Growing Up Ova East by Malek Hunter
From: YMCA/YSVP Story Squad
Series: South Chicago Story Squad: Spring 2015
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Growing up Ova East wasn't no joke.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:54
Unitarian Church Embraces Black Lives Matter Movement
From: Katie Klocksin
Caption: The Black Lives Matter sign at the Unitarian Church of Evanston, Credit: Katie Klocksin
The story of how members of the mostly white Unitarian Church of Evanston decided to take a stand in the Black Lives Matter movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 2
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1510 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/07/2016
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Radio, neckties and drums, the party continues with jazz and blues. In one case Philip and Wynard Harper on trumpet and traps respectively, a more ...

Bought by WKAR, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 5
Life of the Law #72: Outside the Walls
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangba...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 26:22
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 32: It Looked Like Fire
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Ed Crawford had never been to a protest until he heard about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Robert Cohen, a staff photographe...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 17:28
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1507 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/17/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Binary bop begins the journey of spins and needles, drummer Stockton Helbing sounds pristine alongside veterans Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie. D...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:55
  • Purchases: 5
"We's Free! Free!"
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO, DECEMBER 2015
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Award-winning African-American author Bernice L. McFadden reads from her novel, Nowhere Is A Place, the second of two readings from this book featu...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:40

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