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Reverend Patricia Gould Champ, also known as the Queen Mother or simply Reverend Pat, began her career as a teacher, but ultimately received the ca...
- Added: Jun 03, 2024
- Length: 27:20
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 24:10
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
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
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
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
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
At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 2
A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 18:59
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
A man has 14 children with 13 different women, dies young, and leaves them to learn about him through each other, and through the letters he wrote ...
Bought by KUER, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, WYBC, KCUR, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more
- Added: Feb 10, 2004
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 10