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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 19, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Primary care doctor Tseganesh Selameab brings us inside her practice as a provider for immigrants and refugees, and describes one of the most commo...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 39:02
As a lifelong photographer and filmmaker, Harald Rumpf has spent decades exploring the cities that his subjects call home. In this retrospective of...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 12, 2022
- Length: 28:14
- Purchases: 1
Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 05:14
A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:19
Race and Identity at Home is a narrated public radio audio feature exploring parenting in multicultural families with Kristin Leong and Diana Opong...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 17:47
In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 11:17
How did he deal with it? Was his school helpful? What did he learn from it?
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
Hi I’m Makayla and my piece is about my adventures being a fifth grade reject.
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 13:40
My name is Shawn Hughes. I wrote this piece consciously, recapping one of my most important moments of the year. In the midst of two pandemics, eve...
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 06:54
Dr. Synnika's Topical Poem of the Week is a weekly show that uses poetry to explore the social, political, and racial conditions in America. Each e...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 03:30
This episode focuses on the social impact of Ernest Green’s life journey—a different type of travel experience--and his role in the civil rights mo...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 37:07
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
This hour features three intimate stories that grapple with the messiness and the triumph of existing as a person, from the outside body to the ins...
Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, KTSW 89.9 and more
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 36
In this special hour-long episode, host Ashley McMullen and executive producer Kimberly Manning discuss the making of the series Black Voices in He...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 01:03:44
There is unspeakable anxiety that comes with bringing forth Black life in a world that takes Black lives with impunity. Our series began with a ref...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 40:49
Have you ever found yourself looking around in a meeting or a class only to realize that you are the only one? Standing out in the crowd can be har...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 34:53
Some move through the world with laser focus. Others are swept into the future by forces of fate. This week we hear about the roads you've taken. O...
- 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
As healthcare workers, many of us have had to leave our home and go wherever our profession takes us. This week we asked you to reflect on what hom...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 31:03
- Purchases: 1
Marcus Bullock is the founder of the tech app Flikshop—which allows families to communicate digitally with their loved ones in prison. In this clip...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 05:56
When one white woman working in Hollywood received a surprise residuals check, she skipped the bank and deposited it straight to Twitter. She offer...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 3
This hour is dedicated to listening to members of our Black community. They share their experience and responses to recent social uprisings and the...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 59:08
- Added: Jun 06, 2020
- Length: 56:34
- Purchases: 1
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother. It's a tragic love stor...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 38:13
- Purchases: 2
One Teacher is short form audio content, each vignette is an interview with a story teller where they describe the 'one teacher' that inspired them...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 02:04
