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This week on On Story, web series creator-turned cable TV sensation Issa Rae on her journey from YouTube to HBO, her desire for diversity on televi...
- Added: Nov 11, 2021
- Length: 54:00
On this episode of the Apple Seed you'll hear the great storyteller and songwriter Micheal Reno Ferral tell the story of his family cleaning out ma...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, KICI Iowa City and more
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 6
On this week’s On Story Emmy Award® winning television producer, actor, comedian and writer Larry Wilmore discusses the creation of the influential...
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 53:57
From Lynn Nottage, the story of one woman’s rise from rags to riches … and back again.
Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KALW and more
- Added: Feb 03, 2021
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 19
Muyambi loved biking, so when his friends asked him to plan a cycling trip across his home country of Uganda he was thrilled. But challenges arose ...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 13:01
- Purchases: 2
Jamila Davenport of Durham, NC has been a lifelong fan of singer Kenny Loggins. When he comes to perform at the venue she manages, she comes face-t...
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 04:21
According to the mythology of the Yoruba Tribe of Nigeria, the creation or the making of the earth was a collaborative effort between Olorun and or...
- Added: Feb 01, 2019
- Length: 01:54
The story of a shy teenager who wanted to meet the man of her dreams. Or at the very least, a straight guy. But some things are easier dreamed than...
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 19:49
Robin Washington is African American and Jewish and has family members all over the world. Some are Jewish, some are other religions but many celeb...
Bought by KZYX, KWMR, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 01:57
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Nov 17, 2016
- Length: 04:14
George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson team up as cops that don't discriminate--to them, criminals only come in one color . . .
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 01:39
Max and Kendrick host Tasty Wednesday and visit Portage Bay Cafe in the University District. Meron Fikru shares a story about the double standards ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 14:21
Vacation in quaint Ferguson, MO—come for the human rights violations, stay for the rubber bullets!
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 01:32
Like Fox News, but wish it was more reactionary, racist, and condescending? Then check out Rupert Murdoch’s newest network: Redd Foxx News.
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 02:20
Aidan Quinn, Audra McDonald and Tonya Pinkins star in shorts by John Patrick Shanley (Oscar, Pulitzer, Tony winner) and Lynn Nottage (Pulitzer Priz...
Bought by KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFCF FM and more
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 10
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
Phyllis McEwen and Bob Devin-Jones bring to life African-American folktales and songs that Zora Neale Hurston collected in Florida in the 1930s.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Nov 25, 2013
- Length: 39:38
- Purchases: 1
The sounds of classic remastered 78 RPM records fill the air when the music of Fats Waller is presented on the 30th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Ram...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 58:27
- Purchases: 2
Bobby speaks with, writer and animator, Leesa Dean about her three fully developed animated series – Chilltown, The Danger Squad and Lele’s Ratchet...
- Added: Apr 07, 2013
- Length: 55:22
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
This episode we speak with scholar, Lisa Castillo, PhD. Her interest is Afro-Brazilian culture. More specifically, the African diaspora of Brazil. ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 28:01
One block from my apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Raz...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Story, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 4
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
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
