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We all remember the influential teacher who made a difference in our lives. But for Drego Little, the teacher that changed his life was the one he ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
In the United States, we take the right to get an education for granted but that's not the case for many refugees. RadioActive's Faisa Muse brings ...
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 05:12
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
For decades, studies have shown African-American students are disciplined more often and with greater consequences than their white peers. Now, a n...
Bought by KENW, WOUB, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 26, 2017
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 3
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
The message from Dr Kimbro, Brian Courtney Wilson, and Robert Ferguson to all that surrounds the American Black Male Leadership Institute
- Added: Dec 06, 2015
- Length: 12:11
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
National education leaders are trumpeting recent increases in high school graduation rates, yet about 20 percent of kids still dropout before compl...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 04:06
Sixty-eight-year-old Oscar James stands on a hill overlooking the old Hunters Point Shipyard. He points out a street that’s now closed off by a cha...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 06:46
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
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 27:33
As the son of the great civil rights attorney, Oliver Hill Sr., Oliver Hill Jr. knows a thing or two about fighting for equality. He says that toda...
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 3
Data from the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering shows the U.S. is not producing enough engineers to meet future demand. And th...
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 04:18
Reginald Mason remembers growing up in Harlem with his mother during the 1970s.
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 01:57
- Purchases: 4
In 2011, about 82 percent of San Francisco’s students graduated from high school. Ten percent dropped out. Break it down by ethnic group and the nu...
Bought by WCSU-FM and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 08:17
- Purchases: 2
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
American Graduate: A poetry program in Durham is using rhythm and rhyme to keep kids from making the choice to drop out of school.
Bought by WCSU-FM and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 2
WUNC is a part of the American Graduate Project. It's a public media initiative looking at the drop out crisis across the country. As a part of thi...
Bought by KZYX and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 2
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
Once a refugee family has been here for a while, the children often become ambassadors to the outside world. It's the kids who have to translate fo...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 07:54
- Purchases: 1
A bell tower that has been mute for 70 years at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia is about to get a voice thanks to Diane Watkins.
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 55:55
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
