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From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2015
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2015
An illustrative profile of the Austin's Long Branch Inn weekly blues jam, coordinated by Harold McMillan of DiverseArts Culture Works.
- Added: Jul 12, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Host and one of the founders of the American Black Male Leadership Institute Alfred Bundy talks to three more individuals who's desire and determin...
- Added: Apr 04, 2015
- Length: 49:57
In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We are always adjusting the way we sound. It especially depends on the social situation we are in. Linguists call it "code switching," a term origi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 2
Sonny Knight considers himself blessed. If that's true, he is being rewarded for his positive attitude, and incredible amount of patience. It began...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 1
...And Other Essays is the book's title, by author Clifford Thompson who reads a passage here. Observations with wit about life and people, from m...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
When one thinks of fashion forward countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo usually doesn't come to mind. But Les Sapeurs might make us feel dif...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:44
Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:04
Recently at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, Ayana Contreras caught a documentary about Death, a 1970s all-black proto-punk band out of Detroit. The do...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:18
- Purchases: 2
The American Black Male Leadership Institute Public Services Announcement #1
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: 01:10
This reading is a passage describing two giraffes seen in crates on a ship bound for Germany.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 03:49
Making Contact partnered with the 2014 National Poetry Slam to produce this special open mic highlighting the power of thoughtful, truth telling, c...
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Vocalo contributor Alex Thibodeau talks about growing up biracial outside of Detroit… without the benefit of knowing his Jamaican father. He shares...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 10:55
- Purchases: 2
At some point or another we've all known a person that's really into shoes, but have you ever met a "sneakerhead"? Produced at Vocalo (90.7 FM Chic...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 05:18
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer
Series: A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer
Emmy Award Winning Producer & Director, A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer, Ms. Cissy Houston.
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 20:00
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:52
- Purchases: 1
Ghana has long been a special place for the African American diaspora. For many, "roots tourism" is a rite of passage. But in the early 90s, the We...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Dec 14, 2013
- Length: 11:13
- Purchases: 1
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 2
In the summer of 2012 WUNC established its first ever Youth Radio Institute. The station hired five young people -- and two mentors -- to produce r...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:57
WUNC is a part of the American Graduate Project. It's a public media initiative looking at the drop out crisis across the country. As a part of thi...
Bought by KZYX and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 2
A collection of sounds and voices from William Devine Golf course, one of America's oldest public courses, located in inner-city Boston in the hear...
- Added: May 16, 2012
- Length: 01:55
The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 20:25
- Purchases: 3
"Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement" is an important one hour program that features Jazz music as the background with comments concerning the Civil R...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WJAB, Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, WTJU and more
- Added: Mar 10, 2012
- Length: 49:56
- Purchases: 6
Public employees, many of them African-Americans, are being hit particularly hard by today's high levels of unemployment.
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 04:03
