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Season 1, Episode 33 - 'Hunt The Good Stuff' feat Duncan Kirkwood
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Resilience is a choice.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 57:37
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Robert Bullard: Environmental Justice is Equal Justice
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 2: Environmental Writers
Caption: Dr. Robert Bullard
Dr. Robert Bullard, widely considered the father of environmental justice, talks about the inequality of pollution and climate change.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:53
Generational Gene
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: My Body Odyssey
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Generational Gene may seem a special case; a middle-aged school superintendent with a father and grandfather who’ve contracted Type 2 diabetes, Gen...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 18:29
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
Pride Grand Marshal Twins Encourage ‘Tough Conversations’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: The Green twins at the African American Art & Culture Complex’s Open Air Gallery in San Francisco, Credit: Janice Lee
“We are here for the tough conversations,” says Melorra Green, speaking for herself and sister Melonie Green. On this week’s Out in the Bay, the tw...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:29
Writer Sharon G. Flake Highlights Human Trafficking and Survivors in "The Skin I'm In"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Tammy Bobrowsky talks with young adult writer Sharon G. Flake. Her new novel is called "The Life I’m In", it’s the story of a young woman trapped i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2021
  • Length: 16:38
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: 4th and Goal
From: WGTE Public Media
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We're talking football on today's episode of The RDD with 4th and Goal Athletics, a program designed to teach and enhance the athletic skills of co...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 06:24
Shades of Beauty
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2020
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A piece by Lael Saphir. My piece is about what it feels like to be a P.O.C. dancer in a community that excludes you.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 1
André Wallace: Birds Really Color the World for Us
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: André Wallace, Credit: Shefik
Birds - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, CDCD, LLC.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:26
National Writers Series: Steve Luxenberg
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Interlochen Public Radio Morning Edition host Dan Wanschura talks with journalist and author Steve Luxenberg.

Bought by WCMU Michigan and WKAR


  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Ants, Ants, Revolution
From: Emily T Griffiths
Series: Device
Caption: Cover art by Alex Wild (www.alexanderwild.com): Argentine ants (Linepithema humile), an aggressive pest species introduced by human commerce to California, attack a native Pogonomyrmex harvester ant. Native ants in many places around the world have disapp, Credit: Alex Wild
Kingsolver takes us to 1950s Belgian Congo via the Prices, a missionary family. David Holway from UCSD gives us the rundown on local ant species wh...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 22:44
The Dialogue of Race
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious continues the 2nd of a two part conversation with civil rights lawyer, Barbara Phillips, a contributor to the book “Voices of Civil R...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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 Black Panthers
From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show
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A discussion about the groundbreaking PBS documentary about The Black Panthers.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 37:16
Phi Beta Sigma Turns 100!
From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show
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Wil talks with Jonathan Mason, International President, Phi Beta Sigma.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 16:51
RDD: Peep Game Comix
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're entering the world of comic books with Imani Lateef. Imani owns Peep Game Comix, a digital comics platf...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: A Man And His Bass (part 2)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley gets acquainted with one of Toledo's Jazz Icons, Clifford Murphy. Clifford is known for playing i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 1
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 Life of Arthur Ashe (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Bogaerts, Rob / Anefo – Nationaal Archief Fotocollectie Anefo Item number 927-7839
Though he first emerged in the public consciousness as a world-class athlete, Arthur Ashe’s subsequent contributions as an author, activist, humani...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
How You Can Lose Weight Living A Diet Free Life
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: American Black Male Leadership Institute Radio
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Author and CEO of A Diet Free Life, Robert Ferguson provides information on how you can maintain your three meals a day and still lose weight.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 15:46
Allan Wolper talks with Gregory Pardlo
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Gregory Pardlo, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, debunks the theory that African American fathers are disinterested parents. Pardl...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 1
Brief: Michael Honey on Love, Solidarity, and the Black Freedom Song
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Michael Honey discusses non-violent theorist and organizer James Lawson, and John Handcox, the Great Depression-era tenant farmer and union advocate.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 25:20
  • Purchases: 1
Racism in America
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Annie Barnes author of "Everyday Racism, A Book for All Americans.” Barnes describes the effects of rac...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
StoryCorps Griot: Burnell Cotlon and Lillie Cotlon
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Lillie Cotlon (L) and Burnell Cotlon (R), Credit: Ian Spencer Cook for StoryCorps
Burnell Cotlon owns and operates the only grocery store in the Lower Ninth Ward. When it opened in 2014, it was the first grocery store to serve th...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 2
Opportunities for African Americans In Our World
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: American Black Male Leadership Institute Radio
Caption: Host Alfred Bundy
Host and one of the founders of the American Black Male Leadership Institute Alfred Bundy talks to three more individuals who's desire and determin...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2015
  • Length: 49:57