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Eunice Wiley shares how becoming one of the only Black teachers at a predominantly white Florida elementary school helped define her as a teacher.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1: Following the Civil Rights Trail and Touching the History of the Movement; Topic 2: Why Gifted Youth May Not Want to Skip out on Grade-Ski...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KOWS, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Sep 07, 2021
- Length: 51:43
- Purchases: 4
Ingrid Douglas never finished high school as a teenager. When she started looking for a better job at age sixty, she found not having a degree was ...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1 - Black Opera; Topic 2 - Meritocracy Trap; Topic 3 - Wikipedia
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 51:48
- Purchases: 4
As a biomedical engineer in orthobiologics, Neil Thompson still had to do a lot of public speaking. He was a self-professed awful public speaker, ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2020
- Length: 31:48
NASA Engineer Joey Jefferson talks with his six-year-old nephew, Jerry Morrison, about their shared passion for space.
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 02:34
Lebronze and Arguster Davis grew up on their family’s farm in Wetumpka, Alabama. As two of 17 siblings, they had little time for anything outside o...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 03:01
Former classmates Natalie Guice Adams and Eli Brown reflect for the first time on life after court-ordered desegregation.
- Added: Nov 01, 2019
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 2
Judge Olly Neal tells his daughter how discovering African American author Frank Yerby's books in his school library turned him around academically.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Jenna Lester talks to her mother, Dr. Sharon Brangman, about growing up in a family of black women who have dedicated their lives to medicine.
- Added: Feb 01, 2018
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 2
A discussion of the important the heritage of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 31:35
During the 1940s, custodians who worked for the New York Public Library often lived inside the buildings they tended. In exchange for cleaning and ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 02:11
In the 1990s, Johnny Holmes was head of security at a high school in Blue Island, Illinois, located just outside of Chicago, where he met Christian...
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 02:19
A historian and a journalist speak about the devaluation of human life past and present in America.
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Jim Saint Germain and his former middle school dean discuss pivotal moments in their relationship and lessons Jim learned from his mentor.
- Added: Jul 25, 2016
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 3
Ramona Tascoe and Abby Ginzberg talk raised consciousness, protective armor, and being willing to die for a cause.
- Added: May 15, 2016
- Length: 31:09
Author and CEO of A Diet Free Life, Robert Ferguson provides information on how you can maintain your three meals a day and still lose weight.
- Added: Dec 01, 2015
- Length: 15:46
Mario Loiseau talks with his 9-year-old daughter, Mabou, about why he works so hard to provide for her education.
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 01:48
Reginald Mason remembers growing up in Harlem with his mother during the 1970s.
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 01:57
- Purchases: 4
Twenty-three-year-old Tierra Jackson talks to John Horan, the president of her high school, about what her life was like when they first met.
Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:07
- Purchases: 3
Wil Smith tells his daughter, Olivia, about being a single dad in college.
Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 18, 2012
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 3
Tyrese Graham remembers his first day as a teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago, IL.
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 2
John Hunter talks with two former students about what they learned playing the World Peace Game, which he created.
Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and KUOW
- Added: Jan 03, 2012
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 4
Ayodeji Ogunniyi describes how the death of his father inspired him to become a teacher.
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 2
A.P. Tureaud Jr. tells his friend Steven Walkley about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.
Bought by WEZU, KUOW, and Vocalo.org
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 3
