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Crystal Chandler finds the perfect memento of her grandfather, a former Seventh Day Adventist pastor, to take with her when she moves to New York.
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 18:26
The album "felt / not said" by Mankwe Ndosi and Body MemOri features cello, contrabasso, percussion, wildly versatile vocals by Ndosi, but the albu...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2021
- Length: 05:39
- Purchases: 1
Pandemics don’t just wreak havoc on bodies, they create shockwaves that, sooner or later, touch every corner of our being.
This week we asked you...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 42:25
The story of our Black hair speaks volumes about our lives. So much love and care is wrapped up in our curls. Alongside so much vulnerability and p...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 33:10
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, as we finish out the rest of the February and the rest of Black History Month, we're headed into a sacred spa...
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 06:16
Being told by my mother that I’m Ethiopian is the only connection that I have to this stranger: my father.
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 04:07
- Purchases: 1
Big Ron Hunter is invited inside to eat with his friends.
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 11:08
Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 23:59
Tannah and Coley are twin Gospel musicians living in an economically depressed community. Beyond the stereotypes we discover how two high-schoolers...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 15:02
- Purchases: 1
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:52
From YO MISS! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, Volume 1, a play by Judith Sloan. WINNER FIRST PLACE 2008, Missouri Review Narrative Essay about...
- Added: Feb 25, 2008
- Length: 06:48
A twelve year-old's audio diary about life with a mom in prison.
Bought by The Story, KGLT, KLCC, and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Apr 12, 2007
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 4
How one man went from an African war zone to performing on the stages of California.
- Added: Feb 02, 2006
- Length: 16:55
- Purchases: 2
One family talks about leaving their home in the New Orleans 9th ward as water rose toward the roof, floating their baby in a cooler toward safer g...
- Added: Oct 17, 2005
- Length: 04:20
The story of an ex-felon's transition from prison to the free world. James, who narrates, is 38 and has been in and out of prison all his adult lif...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUER, RadioFreePalmer, PRX Remix and more
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 28:47
- Purchases: 11
