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Hill District pastor and community leader Johnnie Monroe (b.1941) reflects on the importance of the church and his faith in today’s youth to become...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:33
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Leonard Brown, USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor, aA native of Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover community, Leonard Brown (b.1934) reflects o...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
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Veteran and retired police sergeant Homer Craig (b.1939) reflects on family and community life in Hazelwood based on interviews conducted by teens...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Malik Bankston, Executive Director, The Kingsley Center (b. 1962), reflects on his college experience and his desire to better his community based ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Pastor and retired paratrooper Donald Turner (b. 1936) reflects on racial tension in his adolescent years and his faith in God based on interviews ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
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In the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, Khanvisile Motsa brings hope to orphans from Africa's rural areas through providing a home, education...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:57
Caption: RadioActive Youth Producer Leija Farr, Credit: KUOW / RadioActive staff
“In a place that will never understand you are amazing, in a place that will put fire to you then say you are callous, they will burn you then say ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Officer Denise Cookie Boulden is a Detective for the Seattle Police Department. She’s well known for her work with youth and the elderly. Detecti...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:31
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My Choice My Voice teens Wanya Ramsey and Frank D interview Black Kold Madina a.k.a. Kimberly Roberts about her award winning film "Trouble the Wat...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:43
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Throwback to January! Makalah interviews Bassist Reggie Richards while he was on tour with B.B. King.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 07:02
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:08
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:52
Caption: Fontezia Walker
The series from the WUNC Youth Radio Institute concludes with a story from Fontezia Walker.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:35
Caption: It's Superman!, Credit: by Dude Crush
This is a telling of Virginia Hamilton's American Black Folktale "The People Could Fly."

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioFreePalmer, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WSLR, WDBM and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
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This year's college graduates weigh in on what's next for the American Dream, in this piece by Jordan Nelson of KOSU in Stillwater, Okla.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:33
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Reginald Dwayne Betts went from the high school honor roll to the penitentiary. He spent nine years in prison beginning at age 16 for a carjacking ...

Bought by KUOW, Vocalo.org, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 3
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When I grow up I want to be a Cosmotologist

  • Added: Apr 27, 2009
  • Length: 01:22
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A while ago, Bobby McFerrin performed at the Berliner Philharmonic with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Well, that was something we just couldn't m...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 09:29
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Sharee Johnson wants to find out if Barack Obama can inspire positive change in her community.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2008
  • Length: 04:58
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Anya Sippen profiles Language Arts, a Durham-based hip-hop group

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1