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We talk with social justice scholar Monique Morris about her new book, Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brow...
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 59:01
One Teacher is short form audio content, each vignette is an interview with a story teller where they describe the 'one teacher' that inspired them...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 02:04
Anthony Clary grew up in the largest public housing project in Richmond, Virginia, a place called Blackwell. In its day it was notorious for the am...
- Added: Apr 18, 2019
- Length: 26:22
2018 has been a year of upheaval for students, in and out of the classroom. This week educators and education activists talk about educational just...
- Added: Sep 13, 2018
- Length: 28:26
About ten years ago, the Herberger School of Business on the campus of St. Cloud State University moved to its current location in Centennial Hall,...
- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 31:09
We all remember the influential teacher who made a difference in our lives. But for Drego Little, the teacher that changed his life was the one he ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
Lenzy R. Wallace Jr., PH.D., an African American, has had three successful careers, succeeding despite the odds. At 90 years old and actively retir...
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 39:01
What role did African-Americans play in the Revolutionary War? "Chains" - the first in a trilogy by Laurie Hulse Anderson - takes us to Manhattan i...
- Added: Feb 16, 2016
- Length: 21:04
The message from Dr Kimbro, Brian Courtney Wilson, and Robert Ferguson to all that surrounds the American Black Male Leadership Institute
- Added: Dec 06, 2015
- Length: 12:11
Mario Loiseau talks with his 9-year-old daughter, Mabou, about why he works so hard to provide for her education.
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 01:48
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 27:33
Dr David E. Kirkland, Transforming the world with more inclusive education methods
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 28:57
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
New York State has the worst high school graduation rate in the country, according to a recent study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education....
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 1
Twenty-three-year-old Tierra Jackson talks to John Horan, the president of her high school, about what her life was like when they first met.
Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:07
- Purchases: 3
A high school student and recent graduate detail their struggles staying in school and what pushed them to persevere.
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 42:54
Sondra Samuels of North Side Achievement Zone and Eric Mahmoud of Seed Academy and and Harvest Preparatory School discuss solutions and impact to t...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 59:07
The series from the WUNC Youth Radio Institute concludes with a story from Fontezia Walker.
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:35
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
A.P. Tureaud Jr. tells his friend Steven Walkley about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.
Bought by WEZU, KUOW, and Vocalo.org
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 3
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
As of 2009, only a quarter of 18-24 year old black men were enrolled in college. But one Oakland foundation is trying to make this a thing of the p...
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 04:54
Mary Edith Bentley and five others were sentenced to 30 days in jail with for refusing to vacate their seats at Patterson's Drugstore lunch counter...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 18, 2011
- Length: 13:09
- Purchases: 1
Journalist Bruce Watson talks about FREEDOM SUMMER: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy. And the great civil ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Jan 14, 2011
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
An interview with author John Francis, an environmental scientist who spent 17 years without speaking or riding in a motorized vehicle.
- Added: Jan 02, 2011
- Length: 15:08
