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Conversations: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with author Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her recent novel Take My Hand, based on the 1973 case of the Relf sisters who ...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 40:06
National Writers Series: Geraldine Brooks
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Anne-Marie Oomen talks with writer Geraldine Brooks.

Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
MN Reads: "To Be Free" with Author Marlene Wisuri
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Marlene Wisuri talks about the latest edition of "To Be Free"

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 06:45
The Write Question - Anthony W. Wood
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Historian Anthony W. Wood discusses his new book, "Black Montana Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930."

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Writer Sharon G. Flake Highlights Human Trafficking and Survivors in "The Skin I'm In"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Tammy Bobrowsky talks with young adult writer Sharon G. Flake. Her new novel is called "The Life I’m In", it’s the story of a young woman trapped i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2021
  • Length: 16:38
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series revisits Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, whose 2020 book, CASTE, is now a bestseller. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDCB, and WRKF


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Controlling the Narratives on Race, Transformation and Travel
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Ardre Orie with author clients, Credit: Ardre Orie
Join World Footprints as we discuss the power of storytelling, narratives on race and, of course, travel.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 39:54
All Blood Runs Red: The legendary life of Eugene Bullard--boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Interview with co-author Tom Clavin.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 09:53
The Write Question - Shonda Buchanan - 431
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Shonda Buchanan discusses her memoir, "Black Indian." She also reads a short passage from the book.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Ants, Ants, Revolution
From: Emily T Griffiths
Series: Device
Caption: Cover art by Alex Wild (www.alexanderwild.com): Argentine ants (Linepithema humile), an aggressive pest species introduced by human commerce to California, attack a native Pogonomyrmex harvester ant. Native ants in many places around the world have disapp, Credit: Alex Wild
Kingsolver takes us to 1950s Belgian Congo via the Prices, a missionary family. David Holway from UCSD gives us the rundown on local ant species wh...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 22:44
The Untold Story of Langston Hughes at St. Cloud State University with Mike Dando
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Black History Month kicks off at KVSC with the Untold Story of Central Minnesota take on Langston Hughes. Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff C...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:49
Locking Up Our Own
From: Sally Tucker
Series: Thinking CAP
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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
93: How to age without apology - Nina Collins, author of "What Would Virginia Woolf Do?"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nina Collins
What's so monumental about turning 40 for women and why do we need our own Facebook group? Turns out--pretty much everything. Nina Collins has crea...

Bought by KCSB-FM, KSJD, KWIT, KUT, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Douglas Coleman Show w_ Colin Flaherty
From: Douglas Coleman
Series: The Douglas Coleman Show
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Interview with Author Colin Flaherty

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 59:34
Augsburg Professor Bill Green Talks About Book Degrees of Freedom: The Origin of Civil Rights in Minnesota 1865-1912
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Augsburg College professor Bill Green as he ma...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 28:04
"The Symphony," an African-American poetry collective
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: R. Dwayne Betts of The Symphony Poets
The Symphony is a group of African-American poets originally comprised of John Murillo, R. Reginald Dwayne Betts, Randall Horton, and Marcus Jackso...

Bought by WNJR and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
First Novel to TV Series: Author Jason Mott and “The Returned"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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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
"Stokely: A Life"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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Kwame Ture, once known as Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinadad, later moving to the United States at the age of eleven. He would become a lead...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:35
  • Purchases: 1
Racial Innocence (Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Robin Bernstein
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Poet, Rita Dove
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. [30:44]

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Feb 29, 2012
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 2
Kelly Starling Lyons, author of "Ellen's Broom"
From: Eileen Heyes
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Kelly Starling Lyons talks about her two new picture books, which draw on African-American history but tell stories that transcend any cultural bou...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:51
Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War is upon us, we have an interview conducted by Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack wit...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 26:30
Quilting the Black-eyed Pea
From: With Good Reason
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Poets Nikki Giovanni and Lucinda Roy discuss their roles as African American poets in contemporary America and share personal visions of the "Middl...

Bought by KPVL and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:51
  • Purchases: 2