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What does equity really mean? That might be an impossible question to answer objectively, but in this encore episode Ruchika Tulshyan, a workplace ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 16:36
This week on the show: The remnants of slavery -
June 19th or Juneteenth is the day where the US commemorates the end of slavery. Dealing with...
Bought by WVTF and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jun 17, 2022
- Length: 24:29
- Purchases: 2
We learn from Founder and Executive Director of Afromundo, Loida Maritza Pérez AND 18-year-old artist, Lauryn Mills-Bohannon, creator of the Afromu...
- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 41:36
This show highlights the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the opportunity to interview the Active Executive Director, Shelley R...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:40
This week on the show: Fighting slavery worldwide -
In this edition: Millions of people are forced to toil in forms of modern slavery across the ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 30:00
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, as we finish out the rest of the February and the rest of Black History Month, we're headed into a sacred spa...
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 06:16
This week on the show: Once they have completed their medical degree, many Ghanaian doctors prefer to move to Europe or North America instead of wo...
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 30:00
Designing Nimbus—a giant, donut-shaped sculpture for Nicollet Mall—was just the beginning. Artist Tristan Al-Haddad also needed a talented crew to ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2018
- Length: 04:21
This week on the show: What happens when our water is contaminated, and who protects it? We meet the people cleaning our beaches, protecting our d...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMUN, KUPR low power FM, and WFIU
- Added: Sep 27, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 4
This is part 2 of Episode 1 of the radio drama, "Columbus Myth." "Columbus Myth" is a speculative piece written from an African American perspecti...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 10:14
With Kenny Burrell interpreting Duke Ellington, artistry can do no wrong. Blues of southwest and midwest inspiration include Gerald Wilson. Jazz ...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 01:59:53
- Purchases: 4
Recently at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, Ayana Contreras caught a documentary about Death, a 1970s all-black proto-punk band out of Detroit. The do...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:18
- Purchases: 2
In a quiet park in Kampala, Uganda, 14 musicians from eight different East African countries sit under a tree.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 09:42
- Purchases: 1
Michigan has always been home to a number of bustling American enterprises, including the prison industry. Each year, the state's correctional faci...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:27
- Purchases: 2
This episode looks at music as communication. In Africa drums were always used to send messages across the jungle. These same drums are now used to...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 18:08
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 09, 2010
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
(NOTE: This program was updated in 2012 for the 100th anniversary of the eviction.)
In 1912, the state of Maine evicted a mixed-race community fro...
Bought by WERU, KFAI Minneapolis, KUER, WCQS, WFAE and more
- Added: Mar 23, 2009
- Length: 58:39
- Purchases: 21
Five experts discuss race relations in the U.S.
- Added: Oct 09, 2008
- Length: 03:00
Tribute to The Godfather of Soul!
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Radio Catskill, WYSO, KFAI Minneapolis, KGLT and more
- Added: Dec 27, 2006
- Length: 25:25
- Purchases: 6
