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The Biden administration has promised to make Covid-19 vaccines available to all US adults by May 1st, but getting a vaccine to those who need them...
Bought by KDNK, KWMR, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 24, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
"Transparency is important, especially in matters of public health. We treasure what we measure..."
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring tim...
- Added: Jul 17, 2020
- Length: 03:00
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 27:51
Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...
- Added: May 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A look into Billie Holiday's last year, and those whose mission it was to silence her.
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 58:00
The people of Newark, New Jersey—the majority of whom are black and brown—are grappling with a lead contamination crisis that has drawn comparisons...
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 28:00
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
Each day starts off at ground zero. Based on my motivation, it'll either be mundane or it'll be a masterpiece.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 22, 2019
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 26, 2019
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 1
Poetry and music honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Added: Jan 19, 2019
- Length: 57:58
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
Radio Curious discusses solitary confinement and its physical and mental health impacts on prison inmates with Dr. Terry Allen Kupers, a forensic p...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Feb 14, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Changing the negative image of the African American male and a tribute to Marion Barry.
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 54:24
In 1964, Dr. William Lynn Weaver was one of 14 black teens who integrated West High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. At StoryCorps, he spoke about h...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 05:41
Francine Anderson grew up in rural Virginia during the 1950s. It was the Jim Crow South and “Whites Only” signs punctuated the windows of many busi...
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
From: Robin Washington
One year ago this week, July 6, Philando Castile was shot to death by Officer Jeronimo Yanez in suburban St. Paul.
Commentator Robin Washington a...
- Added: Jul 02, 2017
- Length: 01:59
From: Stefanie Mavronis
In the months leading up to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division releasing its report on the Baltimore Police Department, I listene...
- Added: May 01, 2017
- Length: 01:38:20
Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy, author of "Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South."
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 30:00
The family of 17 year-old Quanice Hayes, who was shot to death by Portland police, seeks justice from the city of Portland.
- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
From: Francesca Rheannon
Journalist Wesley Lowery talks about his acclaimed book, They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Mov...
Bought by WRGY
- Added: Feb 01, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In 2010, Michael McIntosh’s son was incarcerated at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in the small town of Walnut Grove, Mississippi. On...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 32:55
As an African-American and the son of a police officer in Shreveport, LA, Antonio McKinney offers a nuanced view of the relationship between Africa...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 31, 2016
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
Khiari Benson recalls coming to his mother's defense when a police officer attacked her. He was just five years old.
"I didn't see the badge. I d...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 31, 2016
- Length: 03:25
- Purchases: 1
Host Bob Kustra talks with Pamela Newkirk about her book about a young African man who was displayed in a cage in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.
- Added: Jul 01, 2016
- Length: 29:51
When Nikkia Sullivan was 13 she set out to become a Kingpin.
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 04:45
