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Guitar activist and legendary improvisor James Blood Ulmer discusses his early life, Jimi Hendrix, black history, and much more in this one-hour mu...
- Added: Mar 02, 2015
- Length: 58:58
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
Cookin' with grease: Add some Coltrane for the winter, and THANKS to musicians who donated their time and talents to a recent radio fundraiser. The...
- Added: Dec 16, 2014
- Length: 01:59:56
- Purchases: 2
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This year, Louisville, Kentucky has been marking the anniversary of a touchstone event of the Civil Rights era.
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 05:49
North Beach Citizens is a community-driven, non-profit organization located in San Francisco, California, that addresses the needs of local homeles...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 02:39
You never know where someone's been…Sammy.
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 01:33
This reading is a passage describing two giraffes seen in crates on a ship bound for Germany.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 03:49
William and Yvonne Russell talk about life after his return from Vietnam; and how they dealt with PTSD before the term existed.
- Added: Sep 17, 2014
- Length: 04:45
Every October, over 30 cyclists from the New Orleans area embark on a three-day bike ride to the Louisiana State Penitentiary. The “NOLA to Angola”...
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 04:53
**A MUST-HEAR EPISODE FOR ANYBODY INTERESTED IN THE EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN FERGUSON, MO.**
Nick visits the town of Ferguson, MO in the aftermath ...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Aug 27, 2014
- Length: 54:59
- Purchases: 1
Former Baltimore police officer Mytokia Fair remembers the day she shot and killed her abusive...
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 3
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 ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Aja David and her younger sister, Kai Leigh Harriott, remember the night Kai was hit...
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 2
Berta and Joseph spent years as drug dealers and hustlers in the roughest parts of New York. They both served time. Joseph was an alcoholic. Their ...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 19, 2014
- Length: 18:54
- Purchases: 1
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:22
- Purchases: 2
Words and music with Pastor Steven Hawkins, former Checker Records gospel recording artist.
- Added: Jun 12, 2014
- Length: 58:38
Sit in any prison classroom or recreation room in any prison in the country and ask yourself: How many writers are in the room. How many people ar...
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 54:35
- Purchases: 2
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
Stokely Carmichael was a down-home organizer and radical off-beat visionary of racial equality in America 50 years ago, a quicksilver activist, the...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
We traveled to San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison, to learn about the lasting tradition of arts and spoken word in this well know...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 10:26
- Purchases: 1
We travel to Indianapolis, IN to explore the story of literary great Etheridge Knight, who published his first book, the soulful 1968 masterpiece ...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:09
- Purchases: 3
Funeral services for New Jersey’s last poet laureate, Amiri Baraka, was held at Newarks’ Symphony Hall earlier this week with several thousand peop...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 01:00:02
Daquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis laments losing a best friend.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis, writes about moving forward despite having to struggle
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 1
