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Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:53
Episode 1 - Help This Garden Grow
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:27
HPM BHM 2024 Vignettes
From: KUHF
Series: Black History Month One-minute Vignettes
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Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 13:00
LaMont Dottin
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:00
Episode 5: A Mental Health Journey
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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Several youth describe their strategies and therapies for mental wellness. Powerful and helpful recovery stories for all ages.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Hour 1: The Pandemic and After
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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A compilation of Episodes 1 and 2 for stations desiring a 59 minute version.) 1) Youth experienced challenges on their mental health during the pa...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: World On Fire
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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Social activism by youth during and after the pandemic helped their mental wellness.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
GLOBAL ISSUES come to BURNING MAN
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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As the media portrays 2023's Burning Man as a hellscape, THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man revists the work of a group of Burners at the 2019 event. ...

Bought by KFCF FM, WVTF, Nevada Public Radio, KUNM, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 6
BLACK LIVES MATTER meets BLACK ROCK CITY
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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One principle guiding Burning Man is "Radical Inclusion." But it's never been racially diverse. Activists like Favianna Rodriguez are changing that.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 56:11
Calamity in Philadelphia
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 40:50
Origin Stories
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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How race was invented to support racism.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 33:44
Becoming an Honorary Mariachi
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
In this episode, g'beda shares what it means to pursue their dream of playing in a mariachi band, and how they found themselves in a rich, vibrant ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 14:04
Food, Family, and the Stories We Share: Hand-Patted Foods in Texas
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
Food is an expression of who we are. Table host and folklorist next door, Yvette Blair-Lavallais, catches up with two generations of two North Texa...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 13:08
Heritage Scraps from Heritage Hands: African-American Vintage Quilts
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
EP5: Volker's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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How does a society create meaningful places of encounter? Spaces where you just can't look away from the past?

Bought by KUHF, WHRV, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS, WMRA and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 6
EP4: Mallory's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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Once we accept culpability for a sinful past, what does accountability look like? Even generations after?

Bought by KUHF, WHRV, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS, WMRA and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 6
EP3: Charlotte's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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When Charlotte was a teenager she asked her mother a question: was my grandfather a Nazi? It began a years-long quest to learn more about what her ...

Bought by KUHF, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WHRV and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 8
EP2: Haley's Story
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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Why would someone return to a place of unspeakable trauma and what does it take for them to feel welcomed?

Bought by KUHF, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCQS and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 8
EP1: The Two Reconstructions
From: Memory Wars
Series: Memory Wars
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We start with three generations of German women, and go back in time from there. Through defeat, occupation, and rebuilding. How did two reconstruc...

Bought by KUHF, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, WCQS and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 8
Ebony Classics - Welcoming Spring
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
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"Welcoming Spring" is a classical music program featuring vocal classical music, piano classical music, and symphony orchestra music by musicians, ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:45
  • Purchases: 1
Ebony Classics - Fascinating Rhythm
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
Caption: Lieutenant James Reese Europe, Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Lieutenant James Reese Europe" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1917.
Ebony Classics - A Classic Exposure features the music of people of color in the Classical music industry.

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 1
Thelonious Monk: The Jazz Giant!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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Thelonious Monk: The Jazz Giant! is a one hour program highlighting some of the best works of composer Thelonious Monk.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:06:56
Women on the Waterfront
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...

Bought by KVNF and KCNP


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Universal Title
From: America Abroad Media
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There may be no other actor on the world’s stage whose life has been as heavily documented as Muhammad Ali's. Yet for all the ways the legendary at...

Bought by KOSU, WSKG, WKMS, WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 39
White Privilege: A Courageous Conversation with Curtis Linton
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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When it comes to racism, many white Americans can intellectualize it and some can personalize it through the experience of others but the real chan...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:05