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Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock, ...
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 29:59
The first African-American to become the president of a school board, William Howard Day worked with famous abolitionists Frederick Douglas and Har...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 03:55
Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:52
We are always adjusting the way we sound. It especially depends on the social situation we are in. Linguists call it "code switching," a term origi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 2
There's a mountain of statistics that suggest black Americans don’t go out in nature as much as people of other ethnicities, but one Bay Area organ...
Bought by KSKA and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 06:22
- Purchases: 2
Shelton Johnson is a ranger at Yosemite National Park. He’s part Cherokee, part African American, and part Seminole. And he’s used his background ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 08:28
- Purchases: 2
75 years ago, on December 15, 1939, Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel (1936) turned blockbuster film, Gone With The Wind, premiered ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 15:17
In 1964, Congress had a noteworthy Civil Rights Bill before it. But Southern Democrats, supporters of Jim Crow laws, were pushing a filibuster to k...
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 04:55
...And Other Essays is the book's title, by author Clifford Thompson who reads a passage here. Observations with wit about life and people, from m...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
More than 2.7 million minors in America live with a parent in prison. Studies show that the majority of incarcerated parents reside over 100 miles ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 06:18
At the age of 51, William Bennett was one of the oldest people in California who could claim that. But in June 2013, eight months after leaving pri...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 07:25
Bennett and Porter do their cooking in a shared kitchen that’s part of a transitional house in West Oakland. But they met many years ago.
“Well, w...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 10:42
At the end of a narrow alley off of International Boulevard, through the open doorway of El ColectíVelo bike shop, I’m greeted by a young boy.
“R....
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 06:25
Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Mosaic artist Daud Abdullah up-cycles pieces of trashed pottery, tile, mirror, and glass to make public art on garbage cans in Oakland and Richmond.
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Journalist and nonfiction author Gary Pomerantz conducted over 500 interviews to pen Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, a New York Times notable e...
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 14:31
In the garage of a house in San Francisco’s Excelsior district, rehearsal is underway. In the space where a car would normally go is a stage set: a...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 07:15
Donte Clark stands in the middle of a dimly lit stage. A projected photo of a dilapidated apartment building flickers on the wall behind him. In th...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 12:42
Kevin Gordon talks risk, impatience, and why form must follow function.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 12:49
In the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, at 1038 Howard Street, sits the United Playaz headquarters. United Playaz is an homegrown org...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 18:06
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 13:12
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 12:03
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 17:42
- Purchases: 2
What's Next in Ferguson, MO?
After the shooting of Michael Brown, many are left wondering what are the best ways to move forward. Nick Jaworski ta...
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 53:23
A mobile market aims to revitalize a formerly thriving commercial district in New Orleans' historic Central City neighborhood.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 04:37
- Purchases: 1
