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Ray Charles - Teacher
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Musician Ray Charles recalls the frustration he delivered to his early piano teacher. (1995)

Bought by WNCU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
Ray Charles - Kinds
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Musician Ray Charles comments on the labels given to the music he played. (1995)

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
Ray Charles - Child
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Musician Ray Charles explains what kind of music was around him growing up. (1995)

Bought by WNCU, WUAL, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ray Charles - Nat Cole
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Musician Ray Charles remembers his early career as a Nat “King” Cole sound-alike. (1995)

Bought by WNCU, WUAL, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 3
James Baldwin - Teacher
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Author James Baldwin ponders the problems confronting the “American Negro.” (1963)

Bought by KUOW and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Ebony Hillbillies
From: Amber Edwards
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The Ebony Hillbillies prove you don?t have to be white and Southern to play authentic, down home country music...they are hip, urban, and black. A...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Public Interactive, WKMS, KCUR and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2005
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 8
Jews & Blues: Inside Out
From: Inside Out Documentaries
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The story of how Jewish and African-American music came to be mingled is the story of how the soundtrack of the American Century came to be written

Bought by WCPN, 90.5 WSNC, KSFR, WNIJ, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2005
  • Length: 01:02:30
  • Purchases: 13
Uncommon Courage: The Viola Liuzzo story
From: David Person
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This is the story of the only white woman martyred in the Civil Rights movement.

Bought by WJAB, WJAB, WEKU, Audible, WFDD and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 57:45
  • Purchases: 8
Tossing Away the Keys
From: Sound Portraits
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Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate Wilbert Rideau's report on fellow inmates who are serving life terms without the possibility of parole.

Bought by KUT, The Story, PRX Remix, Remix Radio, WMPG and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2005
  • Length: 27:38
  • Purchases: 8
For My Children, For Myself
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Somali refugee Abdi Said, 11, narrates his mother's story of war, marriage, and escape.

Bought by WMPG, Arab American Radio, WETA, KUT, and WYSO


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 5
Peace Talks Radio: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Path To Nonviolence (59:00/54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s journey to a philosophy of nonviolence and his lasting legacy as a peace proponent is recalled in interviews with his daug...

Bought by WKSU, RadioStPete Florida, WKAR, WKSU, KWMU St. Louis and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2005
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 104
Deep In Our Hearts
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
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Deep In Our Hearts is an award winning hour-long documentary about four white women who defied the color line to work in the southern Civil Rights ...

Bought by WCPN, KZYX, WRPI, KUT, KLCC and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 19
Movin' Out the Bricks
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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A year in the life of Catherine "Coco" Means, as she leaves her long-time home in a Chicago public housing development and moves to her first priva...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KGNU Community Radio, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 8
The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVMR, WORT, KVNF and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 25:12
  • Purchases: 26
Maxey's Mansion
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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Alva Maxey-Boyd, now in her nineties, defied race covenants, urban renewal bulldozers, and two Mayor Daleys in a seven-decade battle to get and kee...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV, WLUW, and WYSO


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 25:07
  • Purchases: 5
House of Pain
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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Public housing residents scramble to figure out where to go next when their Chicago public housing high-rise is slated for demolition. It's all p...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 2
Learning to Live: James' Story
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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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
A Danger to Self and Others
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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"A Danger to Self or Others" documents everyday life inside the Chicago Cook County Jail's Mental Health Division - the largest provider of mental ...

Bought by PRX Remix and WYBC


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
Living Flag
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Street performance piece with Artist damali ayo as she panhandles around the country to create dialogue about reparations for slavery.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KRUA, WBHM and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2004
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 10
Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse
From: Sound Portraits
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LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's exploration of the murder of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was pushed to his death from a 14th-floor window by tw...

Bought by KUT, KUT, KUT, Remix Radio, and KUER


  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 40:14
  • Purchases: 5
Ghetto Life 101
From: Sound Portraits
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The audio diaries of LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, two young boys living in one of the most notorious public housing projects in America.

Bought by HowSound, KFAI Minneapolis, SALTcast Podcast, Remix Radio, KUER and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 31:06
  • Purchases: 8
Miracle On The Streets
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A profile of life on the streets for homeless youth told through the experiences of 21-year-old Miracle Draven.

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jun 01, 2004
  • Length: 17:35
  • Purchases: 1
Don't Take The Colors Apart
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Amerasian Playwright Velina Hasu Houston learned early on to have pride in her identity through her African American father and Japanese mother.

Bought by KVSC, WESM 91.3 FM, KUER, KVSC, KUT and more


  • Added: May 17, 2004
  • Length: 26:09
  • Purchases: 17
paintmixers
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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artist damali ayo's search through paint stores to match paint to her skin tones.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2004
  • Length: 05:07
Ann Meets Mr. Ellington
From: Kerry Seed
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ann Searcy is a 76-year-old jazz singer. She grew up as one of the only people of color in Old Orchard Beach, Maine where music legend, Duke Elling...

Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), SALTcast Podcast, Iowa Public Radio, WJAB, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 7

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