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Mental Calisthenics for Teenagers
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Until recently, most researchers believed the brain stopped developing cognitive ability after a certain age. But a new study suggests otherwise.

Bought by WJCT and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
WorldCanvass: Iowa and Invisible Man
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:57:35
Diane Watkins Voice of Virginia Union
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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A bell tower that has been mute for 70 years at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia is about to get a voice thanks to Diane Watkins.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 55:55
PARIAH -- Writer/director Dee Rees
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Dee Rees, San Francisco, CA 10/11/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Writer/director Dee Rees talks breakthrough poetry, gender fluidity, and the healing power of ice cream.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 15:04
Strike
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: portrait of Barbara Johns, who led the walkout
In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 27
Poet and fiction writer, Sapphire
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Sapphire
Poet and fiction writer Sapphire, best-known for her novel PUSH, which became the award-winning film PRECIOUS, reads from her 2011 novel, THE KID, ...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Encore Presentation of Tin Roof Project featuring Janis Kearney
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tin Roof Project Encore Presentations
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It's our encore presentation of our Tin Roof Project featuring Presidential Diarist Janis Kearney, reading her true story about her childhood in ru...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Lady E: Two Times A Child
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Lady E. aka
Lady E tells me that some nights when she’s finished singing and returns to her apartment and is having trouble with the zipper on her dress, she’l...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 56:36
The Dietitian on Feeding Bob Marley Before He Died of Cancer
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
Caption: Bob Marley on Tour in Dublin July 6, 1980, Credit: Eddie Mallin via Flickr
Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
Benefits of Being Mixed Race
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Darshon Moore, Credit: Philip Nusbaum
Darshon Moore speaks from experience of having parents representing differing cultural backgrounds

  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Black history lives on at Marcus Books
From: KALW
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In San Francisco, Fillmore-based Marcus Books has been a hub for the neighborhood’s black community since it opened in 1959. Founders Julian and Ra...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 12:58
Being Black and Green: African-Americans & the Environment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Red, Bike & Green's inaugural ride in April 2010, Credit: Red, Bike & Green
African-Americans are helping to lead the environmental movement. We take you to a resettlement community in North Carolina, sustainable farms in W...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
THE HELP -- Emma Stone interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Emma Stone, San Francisco, CA 7/11/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Emma Stone talks courage, civil rights, and working from the outside in.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 07:32
Cooking up a new definition of Afrocentrism
From: KALW
Caption: Tsedey Seifu and Faiza Farah founded Afro Urbanites, a social organization that aims to redefine what it means to be Afrocentric
When people from Africa move to the U.S., they’re faced with a question: are they African Americans, or Africans in America? Many tend to call them...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 06:14
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Secret Advisor
From: WNYC
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The names of many of Reverend Martin Luther King Junior’s associates are well known: Harry Belafonte, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young. But one of his m...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KLCC, Prairie Public, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 28
Spoken Soul: Black English in the Classroom
From: With Good Reason
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How do educators make sure students don’t suffer for the way they talk?

  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
TAKERS -- Idris Elba interviewed by Andrea Chase
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Idris Elba, San Francisco, CA, August 8, 2010, Credit: Andrea Chase
Idris Elba talks to Andrea Chase about glamorous gangsters, creative cross-pollination, and working in Rwanda.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2010
  • Length: 09:31
A Love Supreme
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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The making and influence of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme."

Bought by 90.5 WESA, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, WJAB, WMOT and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 01:58:20
  • Purchases: 17
Remembering Dr. Dorothy Height
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Prime Time Radio re-broadcasts an hour-long special with Civil Rights pioneer Dr. Dorothy Height.

Bought by WCNY, KREV-LP, WTIP, and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 23, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 4
Gems #1009, Blues, Bluegrass and Old TIme Music
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The piece investigates the mutual influence of African American and European American on each others' music styles.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2010
  • Length: 08:10
A Tribute to Louis Armstrong (Part 2)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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Author Gary Giddins joins host Dick Golden to discuss Louis Armstrong's life in music. Many seminal Armstrong recordings are featured.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:36
A Tribute to Louis Armstrong (Part 1)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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Author Gary Giddins joins host Dick Golden to discuss Louis Armstrong's life in music. Many seminal Armstrong recordings are featured.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 1
A Tribute to Fats Waller (Part 2)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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A profile of jazz pioneer and celebrated composer Thomas "Fats" Waller.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 1
A Tribute to Fats Waller (Part 1)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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A profile of jazz pioneer and celebrated composer Thomas "Fats" Waller.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:12
  • Purchases: 1
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: Disney animators Mark Henn and Mike Surrey talk to Andrea Chase
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: Animators Mark Henn and Mike Surrey talk to Andrea Chase about the pleasures and perils of returning to hand-drawn anima...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2009
  • Length: 15:03