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StoryCorps Griot: Luz Kenyon and Anna Paloma Williams
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Anna Paloma Williams and Luz Kenyon at their StoryCorps interview in Columbus, GA on October 30, 2021, Credit: By Sarah Padgett for StoryCorps
Luz Kenyon tells her daughter, Anna Paloma Williams, about the unexpected start of their family and how she navigated raising mixed kids in America.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 03:11
The Pandemic, Loss and Racial Inequity
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jorge Garza has created an Azteca pop series based on front line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic., Credit: Jorge Garza
Up next on Making Contact we turn our attention to those Americans who are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus fallout. According to the CDC, Blac...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Best of the Best 2020: Towards a Better World
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, we meet extraordinary people who are fighting the system, working to make transformative change and seeking a better world, for th...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
2017-11-12 Oppressive Heat: Climate Change and Civil Rights
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: L-R: Ingrid Brostrom, Mystic, Rev. Gerald Durley
While solar panels and electric cars are typically associated with upper-class white folk, the transition to clean energy is also a civil rights is...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1507 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/17/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Binary bop begins the journey of spins and needles, drummer Stockton Helbing sounds pristine alongside veterans Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie. D...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:55
  • Purchases: 5
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1500 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/29/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Blues and swing precede post bop for openers, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock. Bop then and now, the Bird and Germany's ja...

Bought by WYAP, WVBI-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WOUB


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 5
Mount Pleasant Riots: 20 Years Later
From: Emily Berman
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Washington D.C. hadn’t seen a disturbance like this since the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and there hasn’t been anything like it si...

  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 07:04
"My Phonebook" by Jesus Lark
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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Overcoming the struggles of those around him, this young writer confronts drug overdose, HIV/AIDS, teen pregnancy, gang involvement and imprisonmen...

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
Southwest Side Stories: The Tracks On Trumbull
From: ashley woods
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The death of a man who crossed the tracks.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2006
  • Length: 01:41