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Behind the Scenes with the documentary Personal Statement
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Christine Rodriguez celebrates with a student she is helping apply to college, Credit: Juliane Dressner
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
White Supremacy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Katharine Gerbner
Before the 17th century, being white didn’t even exist as a racial category. The idea of “whiteness” evolved in the slave-based economies of the En...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates singer Dianne Reeves--2018 NEA Jazz Master.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dianne Reeves, Credit: jerry Madison
Jazz singer Dianne Reeves believes in making music without boundaries.

Bought by WMPG and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 29:44
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates actor and voice artist Dion Graham
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dion Graham, Credit: JoAnne Perrin
Actor Dion has narrated hundreds of audio books and is an aural shape-shifter.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
All the Women in My Family Sing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Deborah Santana
There’s a growing awareness of solidarity among women. They refuse to be silenced. What began as a Women’s March in January 2017 has now evolved in...

Bought by WJSU and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates new film about Rosa Parks
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Meta Golding as Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement, Credit: Courtesy of TVOne
Actress Meta Golding takes on the role of a lifetime: Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNJR, and KVNF


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 27:18
  • Purchases: 3
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates independent film.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rob Meyer
Director Rob Meyer talks about the making of the independent film, Little Boxes.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates director Kyle Donnelly
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kyle Donnelly
Director Kyle Donnelly sees theater as interpretive history.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 26:59
Alice's Garden
From: James Mills
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An interview with Venice Wiliams the executive director of Alice's Garden, an urban agriculture facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  • Added: Oct 23, 2017
  • Length: 13:41
The Ada Decades
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paula Martinac
It’s not often I interview the author of a novel on this program. Sometimes, though, a work of fiction can give us insights and perspectives a non-...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview w/ poet ELIZABETH ALEXANDER about her memior "The Light of the World"
From: Out of Bounds
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Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir "The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Crime Writer Rachel Howzell Hall’s “City of Saviors"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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"City of Saviors" is Book 4 in Howzell Hall’s popular Lou Norton series. It pits this African-American LAPD homicide detective against a heat wave,...

Bought by KISA Digital Studios and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates jazz great Sonny Rollins
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sonny Rollins, Credit: John Abbott
It's Sonny Rollins 87th birthday and he sat down with the NEA's Josephine Reed to talk about his life in music.

Bought by KWMR and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with four time Tony Award winner Ron Simons
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ron Simons
Ron Simons became a producer to shine a light on untold stories.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 1
Toxic Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas M. Shapiro
Income and wealth inequality is now a regular topic of conversation. The standard of living for most Americans’ since the Great Recession is either...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts in conversation with author T. Geronimo Johnson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: T. Geronimo Johnson, Credit: Elizabeth R. Cowan
Johnson's novel Welcome to Braggsville puts four kids from Berkeley in Georgia to protest a Civil War reenactment with a pretend lynching. What co...

Bought by KWMR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 26:31
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates a new exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The new exhibit at NMAAH&C illuminate history, community and culture. Co-curator Aaron Bryant walks us through it.

Bought by KZUM, WCPN, WTJU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 4
Helene Cooper & “Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author describes the journey of Liberia’s Sirleaf, honors the amazingly resilient Liberian women who put her into office, an...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 09:48
Author Jacqueline Woodson interview on Art Works--the weekly podcast from the National Endowment for the Arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Jacqueline Woodson, Credit: Juna F. Nagle
With Another Brooklyn, acclaimed children’s author Jacqueline Woodson creates an adult novel that reads like poetry

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
A conversation with 2017 NEA Jazz Master, Dr. Lonnie Smith
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Lonnie Smith, Credit: Mathieu Bitton
One of the best jazz organists, ever…and one of the most sampled jazz musicians.

Bought by Prairie Public, Harford Community Radio, Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, WTJU and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 7
Actor Bowman Wright--playing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Bowman Wright as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop , Credit: Mark Garvin
Bowman Wright on the transformative power of theater and his two portrayals of MLK.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:08
Black Lives Matter protest shapes Ohio ballot
From: George Drake, Jr.
Caption: Black Lives Matter protesters take over city hall in Columbus, OH., Credit: George Drake, Jr.
Black Lives Matter protesters take over a city council meeting to protest against police killings of blacks, and how Ty're King's death overlapped ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
Earl Mosley: Dancing with Heart
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Earl Mosley, Credit: Courtesy: EMIA
The Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts uses dance to create a community of young men.

Bought by KZUM, KISA Digital Studios, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in School
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Monique W. Morris
Black girls make up for more than one-third of all girls with school related arrests. Yet, they comprise just 16-percent of female students.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
No One Was Thinking that Cop Has Kids at Home
From: Vivian Chum
Series: A Matter of Black Lives: Mothers and Fathers
Caption: Antonio McKinney
As an African-American and the son of a police officer in Shreveport, LA, Antonio McKinney offers a nuanced view of the relationship between Africa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2016
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1