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- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 57:37
- Purchases: 1
The need for prison reform in the USA.
Bought by WOJB
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 58:25
- Purchases: 1
Can we make the music business safe for everyone?
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB
- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 57:52
- Purchases: 2
Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 51:30
Generational Gene may seem a special case; a middle-aged school superintendent with a father and grandfather who’ve contracted Type 2 diabetes, Gen...
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 18:29
An extended trailer to the upcoming public radio documentary, produced by Paul Ingles, on the early emergence and on-going stellar career of musici...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and Louisville Public Media
- Added: May 21, 2022
- Length: 10:42
- Purchases: 2
Strength - Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded...
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 01:01
The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.
Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Aug 03, 2021
- Length: 51:31
- Purchases: 11
Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker Jason Berry joins Gwen with fascinating stories and characters populating New Orleans’ cultural and mu...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 52:00
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history?
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 2
Kevin Clash made Sesame Street’s Elmo the global phenomenon he is today. He worked with The Muppets starring as Clifford, who went on to host Mupp...
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 01:34:21
From: When We Fight, We Win!
The continued closures of our public schools and high-stakes testing illustrate the institutionalized racism embedded in our educational system. Ji...
- Added: Aug 02, 2020
- Length: 58:23
Freedom - Eloisa Diaz-Sanz is an American creative consultant and fashion designer from New York City, specializing in womenswear. Her experience i...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 01:36
Education - Angela Adetola is the Presdient of the Board of Directors at YWCA Yonkers, located in Yonkers, New York. The members and supporters of ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 02:47
Birds - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, CDCD, LLC.
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 02:26
Identity - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboar...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 02:04
Ellis Marsalis joins Gwen Thompkins for a wide-ranging talk about his life in music - from modern jazz pianist, to jazz educator, to father of four...
- Added: May 20, 2020
- Length: 51:58
This show highlights the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the opportunity to interview the Active Executive Director, Shelley R...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:40
Tarish Pipkins performs puppetry under the name Jeghetto. The creations that emerge from Jeghetto’s Workshop are incredibly unique and endlessly fa...
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 36:32
In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954) launched a revolutionary black arts movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance....
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Sep 18, 2019
- Length: 34:12
- Purchases: 2
James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...
- Added: Jun 07, 2018
- Length: 24:54
The ancient origins of an American gospel classic,"Children, Go Where I Send Thee," are told through archival recordings from The Library of Congre...
Bought by WUTC
- Added: Jan 21, 2018
- Length: 38:49
- Purchases: 1