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Companies are now paying consultants to increase the diversity of their workforce with an eye on innovation and the bottom line. But shouldn't it b...
- Added: Sep 23, 2015
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 3
Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WNJR, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Human trafficking is estimated to be in the millions--yet only a fraction of it is reported. And taxpayers spend $60,000 per person, per year on in...
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 4
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
Michelle Van Loon has been a writer for more than three decades. With her recent book, If Only: Letting Go of Regret, the author has written a prac...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 59:00
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
In this episode, we talk with Dr. E.L. Kornegay, founder of the Baldwin-Delaney Institute for Academic Enrichment and Faith Flourishing, about sear...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 59:00
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
This week we take the full hour for David Dault's in-depth interview with Michelle Alexander, author of the groundbreaking 2010 book, The New Jim C...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The world legend is thrown around a lot, but saxophonist, flutist and composer Charles Lloyd is the real deal. He's much of a musical innovator tod...
Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 4
Novelist Tayari Jones is one writer who loves writng.
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
Raymond Arsenault's book The Sound of Freedom examines the 30 minute concert that helped move a nation forward.
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 2
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary
August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 4
Writer, director, and actor, Thomas W. Jones II makes sense of the world through theater
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African American community through narrative quilts.
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Rev Jerry Colbert shares one of the oldest African-American music traditions. He's the leader of The Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Dela...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KPIP-LP, and WABE
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson talks about urban planning that has art at its heart.
- Added: Jan 23, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
With a new exhibit and catalog-- both titled Represent, the Philadelphia Museum of Art puts its extensive collection of African American art on vie...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Charles Rangel: a legacy interview. He has been a congressman representing Harlem and the Bronx for more than 43 years. Congressman Rangel gained n...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...
- Added: Dec 11, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
S. Brent Plate on materiality and lived experience. Natasha Alford on Memphis, Martin Luther King, and Ferguson.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 41:08
Chris Strachwitz, Chris Simon, & Maureen Gosling talk first recordings, Jim Crow, and why this music matters.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Sep 28, 2014
- Length: 26:38
- Purchases: 1
Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 07:21
- Purchases: 2
Mo’Nique, Patrik-Ian Polk and Julian Walker talk love, changing locations, and the difference between a job and an opportunity.
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 11:46
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
