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"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news th...
- Added: Jun 19, 2020
- Length: 03:00
"Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law."
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 03:30
When Hurricane Florence hit coastal North Carolina, Shecoria Smith, age 16, was worried about her father returning from a work trip.
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 02:49
Joann Jones co-founded a community dance class that helps senior citizens fight inactivity and isolation. But as she gets older, Joann has to fight...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 12, 2020
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 2
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
- Purchases: 1
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
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
"I always think when you’re finding your family history, you want there to be a haunted Scottish castle on a moor and maybe some kind of...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 06:22
- Purchases: 1
North Carolina’s Outer Banks offers everything from open-sea beaches, theatre, wildlife preserves and popular shipwreck diving sites to down home c...
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 59:55
Sam Bailey is a writer, actor and filmmaker. Her credits include the Tribeca Film Festival recognized and Gotham Award. Produced by Alex Kime.
- Added: Jul 15, 2018
- Length: 18:50
For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: May 05, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A recent east coast storm unearthed the remains of America's last slave ship in Alabama: the Clotilda. These remains, and the artifacts from anothe...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 06, 2018
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 1
Look around. Change is happening. People you know and people you pass on the street are in transition. They are transforming their lives. Unless yo...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 01:10:04
The popular notion that Jamaica developed its early ska and reggae musics by listening to high powered New Orleans radio stations doesn't give cred...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 43:39
Robin Washington is African American and Jewish and has family members all over the world. Some are Jewish, some are other religions but many celeb...
Bought by KZYX, KWMR, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 01:57
- Purchases: 3
This is a series of interviews designed to showcase various attitudes held in the African American Community about Gun Ownership in General, and Co...
- Added: Aug 24, 2016
- Length: 16:05
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Jeremiah Williams, better known as Flag Boy Twin, may have left New Orleans, but he brought his rich heritage as a Mardi Gras Indian with him. Part...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 1
This year saw the Academy Awards ceremony awash in racial controversy.
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 06:00
J. California Cooper loved playing with paper dolls--even as an adult.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Growing up Ova East wasn't no joke.
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 02:54
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
China Smith and her students share their perspectives on the dance world, and describe how they created their own world in Ballet Afrique.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 04:42
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 07:22
- Purchases: 1
Alfred Bundy and Kevin Jenkins in conversation about this book.
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 18:57
“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 22:40
