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In the second half of our conversation with former California Poet Laureate Al Young, he shares more from his book SOMETHING ABOUT THE BLUES: AN UN...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Nine-year-old Isaiah Fredericks and his younger brother, Josiah, used their StoryCorps interview to ask their dad, Kevin, some hard-hitting questions.
Bought by Public Radio for All, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KZYX, WVBI-LP, WGUC/ WVXU and more
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 6
In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: “We should look in vain through the most trying times of our revolutionary history for a...
Bought by WFAE
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 29:37
- Purchases: 1
Since 1938, a weekly African-American owned newspaper called The Evening Whirl has covered crime in St. Louis with a style all its own, using allit...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 16:14
John Washington, 95, who is blind and deaf, recently recorded a StoryCorps interview with his eldest child, Melva, using a TeleBraille machine.
- Added: Aug 22, 2016
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 3
1st segment: Pepe Willie (the man who discovered Prince) is interviewed. 2nd Segment: Chris Moon (the man who gave the keys to his studio) is inte...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 06, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
Clarence ”Clancy” Haskett talks with his friend and former coworker about his long and successful career as a beer vendor for the Baltimore Orioles.
Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 02:09
- Purchases: 2
Mario Loiseau talks with his 9-year-old daughter, Mabou, about why he works so hard to provide for her education.
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 01:48
Just a few years ago, 18-year-old Noah McQueen was struggling in school, had been arrested multiple times, and spent time in juvenile detention. Bu...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you’re greedy, you’re set up." - Maya Angelou, as told to Studs Terkel in ...
Bought by KZYX, KZYX, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and WABE
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 06:42
- Purchases: 4
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Civil Rights Leader Bobby Seale, the band Adult Toys, and Orson’s Shadow in our ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 58:20
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes and Terry "Harmonica" Bean in concert in Philadelphia
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 6
Clayton Sherrod looks back to 1964, when at 19 years old he became executive chef at an all--white country club in Birmingham, Alabama.
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 4
Bobby and Martini podcast from Branded Saloon in Brooklyn, to cover a monthly musical event called TINTR (This Is Not The Radio). The showcase is o...
- Added: Nov 24, 2013
- Length: 58:23
Can you flip your middle finger at a cop? Hunger In America. Climate Change. Two movies you must see. And what's wrong with the DCCC? Weekly series...
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 29:58
Makalah gives some tips on how to beat the heat! For Boredom Prevention she tests your memory with some fun trivia!
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 04:15
African-American poet and National Book Award-winning author of LIGHTHEAD, Terrance Hayes and his wife, Yona Harvey, author of the 2013 release, HE...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In Baltimore, Joyce Scott, a venerated visual and performing artist talks with Cathy Byrd about the art scene in Baltimore, her hometown, and descr...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 12:25
Wil Smith tells his daughter, Olivia, about being a single dad in college.
Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 18, 2012
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 3
Winner of "Last Comic Standing", Alonzo Bodden talks.. Sex... Politics ... Religion .. and more in a funny 5. Listen and LAUGH!
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 04:42
The official radio companion to the MARLEY documentary film in theatres and homes on April 20, 2012.
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KPSQ-LP, Prairie Public, WNMU-FM, KMUW and more
- Added: Apr 13, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
Art Stewart Motown producer and engineer. Art worked with the
crème of the Motown artists and producers.
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 32:13
Comedian Darryl Littleton...wrote the book on "Black Comedians on Black Comedy". If you're a Bigot, you won't like the next 5 minutes.
- Added: Feb 25, 2012
- Length: 04:53
You've seen him on "The Tonight Show", now comic Saleem joins us on the Lawn
- Added: Nov 22, 2011
- Length: 05:15
Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.
- Added: Jan 08, 2006
- Length: 44:47
- Purchases: 19
