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Caption: Jonquilyn Hill
Long time GJ member Jonquilyn Hill speaks with us about her new podcast Through the Cracks.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 58:18
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81-year-old Navy veteran Joseph Patton remembers his service and the discrimination he faced as a gay man in the 1950s.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Neddy Smith, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditiona...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:31
Caption: Lebronze and Arguster Davis at their StoryCorps interview in Birmingham on October 3, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
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
Caption: Rickey Jackson (Left) and Eddie Vernon (Right)
Rickey Jackson, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent nearly four decades in prison for it, talks with Eddie Vernon, the man whose false...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 03:26
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David DePina grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts. By his mid teens, he was dealing drugs and caught up in gang warfare. David's participation in ...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 44:13
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Abrigal Forrestor is currently Director of Community Action at Madison Park Development Corporation. He works with at-risk young men to try to stee...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 47:09
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June 7th marks the one year anniversary of the death of Clinton Gilkie, and so we devote our June 2nd and June 16th episodes of Kite Line to his st...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:55
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Veteran police major and executive director of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) Neill Franklin discuss his journey from being Drug War en...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 15:06
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Officer Denise Cookie Boulden is a Detective for the Seattle Police Department. She’s well known for her work with youth and the elderly. Detecti...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:31
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We remember the Nobel Prize-winning South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who passed away on July 13, 2014. In this 1994 interview with former NEW ...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a conversation with August Wilson scholar Jeannie Zeck about Wilson’s plays and the many influences on his work; the show also features pe...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:03
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Edward R. Murrow called them “ The Lost Class of 1959”. The kids who had nowhere to go when some Virginia public schools closed their doors rather...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carolyn & Ortralla Mosley
In 2003, Carolyn's 15-year-old daughter, Ortralla, was brutally stabbed by her boyfriend in the hallway of Reagan High School in Austin, TX. Caroly...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2011
  • Length: 24:45