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Rita Dove: Rara Avis
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Rita Dove, Credit: Photo of Rita Dove by Fred Viebahn
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 24:10
Reverend Patrica Gould-Champ: Living the Word, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Rev. Pat helps unload food from the FeedMore van
Gurus and evangelists, swamis and proselytizers, new agers and mystics—they immediately arouse my suspicions and raise my hackles as I prepare for ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 27:49
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 Hadley Park Line Dancers
From: David Condos
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Meet Joann Jones. She's 79 years old, and she loves to dance. So, she helped start a line dancing class for senior citizens at the Hadley Park Comm...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 15:57
  • Purchases: 1
Edward Harden Peeples Garden of Liberation Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Ed Peeples
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 09, 2019
  • Length: 25:37
  • Purchases: 1
Being Black In Blue: A Profile Of A Police Officer
From: Emily Corwin
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Nashua, NH Police Sergeant, Lakeisha Phelps is one of two black police officers on a force with 176 police officers, in one of New Hampshire’s most...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
A Picture Emerges
From: Josh Swartz
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This story explores Michelle Obama's early life, expectations surrounding her ascendency as First Lady, and the impact she will leave on the office...

Bought by WWNO, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WHCP-LP Cambridge, WTJU, CI Dolphin Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 12
Inside the World of Deja Rene Carr
From: Paolo Rosen
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Deje Rene Carr has basically reached the status of local music legend in Pioneer Valley. The catch, she's still in high school.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 05:57
Miss Eva
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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This episode of ARRVLS chronicles one woman's journey to find solace and happiness in the wake of tragedy. A story about faith and the legacy of su...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 30:04
Delta Jewels (Gravy Ep. 27)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Mrs. Joyce Meyers, Credit: Photo by Alysia Burton Steele
The image of the Mississippi Delta the public usually gets is one of poverty-- or of cotton fields. But, on a search for women like her grandmother...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 25:16
  • Purchases: 2
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten: An Unlikely Folk Hero
From: Matthew Cochran
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Elizabeth “Libba” Cotton’s “Freight Train” was the unofficial anthem of the 1960’s folk music revival. Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, and Jerry Ga...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 12:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Jemima Code (Gravy Ep. 6)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Toni Tipton Martin making hot rolls.
There’s a whole lot more than recipes in Toni Tipton Martin’s cookbook collection… It contains a surprising culinary history of African Americans i...

Bought by KVLU, WBHM, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 22:28
  • Purchases: 4
Leroy Moton Remembers Viola Luizzo Murder as Civil Rights Turning Point
From: Sara Karl
Caption: Leroy Moton in 1965, Credit: Encyclopedia of Alabama
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
Latitude News Podcast #3 - Black in China
From: Latitude News
Caption: Jo Bai and her fellow English teachers in Yuyao, China.
Jo is African American. Jo lives in Yuyao, China. Jo gets a lot of attention.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 13:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Black Experience
From: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Caption: Dr. Della Taylor Hardman
Dr. Della Taylor Hardman made it her mission to talk to influential and promising African Americans inside and outside of West Virginia. Her interv...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WDDE, WJAB, KWMR, WEMU and more


  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:00
  • Purchases: 10
Reality Check
From: David Schultz
Caption: Carolyn Parham, Credit: SpeakeasyDC
A mother of two faces a life-altering crisis when, just a few months out of rehab, a $5,000 check appears in her mailbox.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 28, 2010
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 3
Aha Moment: Underground Railroad
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
More Than A Teacher
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A woman who teaches English in African refugee camps finds her students sometimes need more than an English lesson.

Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, and KRUA


  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 3
Experiencing the Blues: A Profile of Miss Lavelle White
From: KUT
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A pioneer of Texas rhythm and blues tells her story

  • Added: Feb 06, 2007
  • Length: 09:55
Don't Take The Colors Apart
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Amerasian Playwright Velina Hasu Houston learned early on to have pride in her identity through her African American father and Japanese mother.

Bought by KVSC, WESM 91.3 FM, KUER, KVSC, KUT and more


  • Added: May 17, 2004
  • Length: 26:09
  • Purchases: 17
paintmixers
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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artist damali ayo's search through paint stores to match paint to her skin tones.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2004
  • Length: 05:07
Civil War Widows
From: Radio Diaries
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Alberta Martin and Daisy Anderson are the last living Civil War Widows.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Vocalo.org, Connecticut Public (WNPR), The Story, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2003
  • Length: 12:59
  • Purchases: 14