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RDD: SunBridge, Meet the Kids
From: WGTE Public Media
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We're headed back to school on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries! Join us as we take a tour of SunBridge Schools in Toledo, OH.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 06:03
National Writers Series: Jodi Picoult
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
Caption: Jodi Picoult with Neal Rubin
A conversation with bestselling author Jodi Picoult.

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
COMING OUT IN CHURCH
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Cecilia Hayden-Smith finds god in adulthood to overcome trauma, addiction — and to come out.

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Sep 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:37
  • Purchases: 1
About Last Night: How HBCU Students are Addressing Sexual Assault on Campus
From: Making Contact
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Students at several prominent historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), have demanded that school administrators address sexual assault...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Darnell Moore, Credit: www.darnelllmoore.com
Darnell Moore the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. A story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with...

Bought by WVAS and WRIR


  • Added: Aug 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Chris Beck in the Doodlin' Lounge
From: Pete Fallico
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Drummer Chris Beck stops by my imaginary Doodlin' Lounge to share tracks from his debut CD, 'The Journey'

  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:42
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps Griot: Myles Spencer-Watson and Charisse Spencer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Charisse Spencer tells her teenage son Myles what it was like integrating her elementary school in Norfolk, Virginia in the 1960s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Power 20 Countdown!
From: Garry Boast
Series: Power 20 Countdown!
Caption: Power 20 Countdown, Credit: Cerebral Radio CBRTalk
Celebrating Influential African American Albums From The Civil Rights Era To Present- Day

  • Added: Apr 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:07:12
StoryCorps Griot: Dennis Simmonds and Roxanne Simmonds
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Roxanne Simmonds and her husband, Dennis, remember their son, police officer D.J. Simmonds, who died due to injuries he sustained confronting the B...

Bought by WVBI-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2
The Trouble: Doppelganger
From: WBEZ
Caption: Prison photos of Ricky Amos (left), and the wrongfully incarcerated Richard Jones (right)
Richard Jones was sentenced to 19 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Seventeen years in, he discovers he has a look-alike, with the same...

Bought by KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGCU, KUNM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Life of the Law #132: Death by Police - A Mother's (audio) Diary
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Andrea Irwin and boyfriend Jeff Jackson following the shooting death of Tony Robinson, Andrea's 19 year old son., Credit: Nate Royko Maurer
"What we don’t know is what happened in the 18 seconds that the police officer that was in the hallway. He ended up shooting my son seven times in ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 36:29
Tracy K. Smith and Rita Dove Read and Comment on New Poems
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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The current Poet Laureate and a former Laureate read and comment on new, unreleased poems.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Tanai Benard and Dezmond Floyd
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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10-year-old Dezmond Floyd talks with his mother, Tanai Benard, about the active shooter drills in his 5th grade classroom.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
Why We Will Never Forget April 1994
From: WPLN - Nashville Public Radio
Series: Versify (shorts)
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Ebralie Mwizerwa is a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 4
Former Mississippi Poet Laureate & Two Term US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...

Bought by WNJR and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Poet in the Electric Blue Suit
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Danez Smith, the author of "Don't Call Us Dead", Credit: David Hong
Danez Smith's poetry frankly addresses HIV, gay hookups and violence aimed at black men. At formal events, he's not afraid to go flamboyant. KFAI's...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 04:25
Wanting North by Tanya Barfield
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: April Matthis
The 1840s South. In the thick plantation air, two enslaved sisters spin a poetry of escape. Today’s the day: Field Girl is making her run for freed...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 20:56
A Man of His Time by Kate T. Billingsley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: John Douglas Thompson
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. In the short play, A Man of His Time, a descendant of Supreme Co...

Bought by KZYX and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 32:06
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Gregory Bess and April Gibson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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33-year-old April Gibson talks to her teenage son, Gregory Bess, about how she felt when he was born.

Bought by WVBI-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Rickey Jackson and Eddie Vernon
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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
To Heaven & Back
From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show
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Pastor Adina Kring was facing death's door, but then...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 52:17
Cell by Cassandra Medley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Condola Rashad
Starring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Condola Rashad (“Billions”), CELL tells the riveting story of three African-American women working at ...

Bought by WCPN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WHRV


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
A People's Journey
From: UnderCurrents
Series: UnderCurrents Specials
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We visit the National Museum of African American History & Culture, the newest Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Co-Hosts Gregg & Gabriela interview...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:58
Episode 80: Photo, Hair, Fingerprint
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1988, a man in Hickory, NC was sentenced to life in prison based on evidence that experts would later call “junk science.” It took him 24 years ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 25:43
  • Purchases: 1

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