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Reverend Patricia Gould-Champ, a woman affectionately referred to as the Queen Mother, which, in her case, is not a petty, royal appellation. Rathe...
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 26:36
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
The pipeline fight comes to a surprising end. But with so many environmental injustices remaining in Memphis, the work is far from over. MCAP will ...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 31:05
Though the pipeline’s construction seems inevitable, MCAP’s relentless activism has begun attracting the attention of national figures, who help en...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 29:47
Pipeline activists dig in and discover that the Byhalia crude oil pipeline also threatens a precious 'diamond in the rough' - the Memphis Sands aq...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 30:26
"We took, basically, a point of least resistance." It was a throwaway line by an out-of-town pipeline representative trying to explain the company'...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 35:55
Reporter Carrington Tatum arrives in Memphis and begins reporting on the Byhalia pipeline. Meanwhile, MCAP realizes that calling out politicians wo...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 29:59
Gurus and evangelists, swamis and proselytizers, new agers and mystics—they immediately arouse my suspicions and raise my hackles as I prepare for ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2022
- Length: 27:49
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: Jul 28, 2022
- Length: 24:10
How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history?
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 2
Even in complicated times, we tend to forget the simplicity of, “why we protest” even if the issue is a no-brainer or has complicated edges. We kno...
- Added: Aug 11, 2020
- Length: 07:34
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 27:51
Celebrating one of the founders of Rock ‘n Roll, Richard Penniman, better known as Little Richard with a mix of his music, interviews, covers and ...
Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and KHNS
- Added: May 17, 2020
- Length: 59:33
- Purchases: 3
Johnny Tucker was a sideman for many bands over the years beofre goinf solo. Now he has another album of his own to share with us today.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:08
There’s a man in a small city thirty miles south of Richmond Virginia whose business was pretty much wiped out by the Coronavirus pandemic. But des...
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 12:26
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Sep 09, 2019
- Length: 25:37
- Purchases: 1
David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:19
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:11
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 26:39
Jamila Davenport of Durham, NC has been a lifelong fan of singer Kenny Loggins. When he comes to perform at the venue she manages, she comes face-t...
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 04:21
After seeing ads for home DNA tests on TV, John decided to give it a try. Just spit into a cup—what did he have to lose… or gain?
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 13:23
Anthony Clary grew up in the bricks. Buildings linear as Legos, lining block after block of city streets, stretching from Porter to Dinwiddie, from...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 26:58
- Purchases: 1
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 14:55
1855, in Millsboro, Delaware, a man named Levin Sockum was doing very well for himself. He was a Nanticoke business owner.
His name was clearly Na...
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 06:12
