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How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 12:31
- Purchases: 1
In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 11:30
- Purchases: 2
One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez recently completed her term as Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate. This...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century an...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 09:21
- Purchases: 3
We asked poet Kyes Steven of Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to record a workshop for us. Take a listen.
Prison Poetr...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 2
Reverend Hill discusses the history of Grant Chapel, and the A.M.E. church as a whole, connecting its founding as a rejection of discrimination to ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 25:35
Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster talk commitment, reflection, and unconscious racism.
- Added: Nov 17, 2013
- Length: 24:20
California has been in an ongoing struggle trying to figure out how to deal with overcrowding in prisons. The problems extend to the Division of Ju...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 07:19
Born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe in New Orleans right before the turn of the 20th Century, Jelly Role Morton is credited as one of the founding father...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 21, 2013
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 1
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Sep 05, 2013
- Length: 04:49
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian William P. Jones talks with host Brian Balogh about the origins of the march idea, first floated during a campaign against employment dis...
Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 09:17
- Purchases: 2
My Choice My Voice teen talks about his transformation from a "troubled kid" to a high school graduate headed to college. Meanwhile, we hear his re...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 12:37
- Purchases: 1
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe explores what Gillespie's legacy can teach us about the revolutionary aspect of humor, and how we can live...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 3
As we recognize Bud Powell as one of the most influential jazz pianists of the 20th century, we must also acknowledge how much of his greatness and...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
Talana Banks and her brother, Willie, talk with their mother, Chief Warrant Officer Felicia Banks, about her deployment to Iraq in 2005 and their l...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 1
One of the early and most important Supreme Court decisions of the Civil Rights movement
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious discusses the N-word with law professor, Randall Kennedy, author of “Nigger-the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.”
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 29:01
In this short segment Rabbi Neil Blumofe highlights the significance of Mile Davis' album Kind of Blue.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 15:03
Cathy Byrd telephones Charles Guice, owner/director of Charles Guice Contemporary, to talk about his passion for contemporary photography and his c...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 12:56
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:08
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:52
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:57
Charlie Morris remembers his brother's death in 1939, with his cousin Sylvester Lewis.
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 01:46
- Purchases: 2
