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S5 EP5: Homelonging
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Primary care doctor Tseganesh Selameab brings us inside her practice as a provider for immigrants and refugees, and describes one of the most commo...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 39:02
StoryCorps Griot: Martha High and Sandra Bears
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Martha High and Sandra Bears
Sandra Bears and Martha High remember singing together as The Jewels, before hitting the road with James Brown.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Mikayla Stephens and Tesia Williams
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mikayla Stephens and Tesia Williams at their StoryCorps interview in Washington, D.C. on August 27, 2021., Credit: By Clean Cuts Studios for StoryCorps.
Tesia Williams talks to her daughter, Mikayla Stephens, about being at the Pentagon during the terrorist attack on 9/11 and how that day shaped her...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Honorée Jeffers, Wanda Morris, Vanessa Riley
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Rochelle Riley talks with authors Honorée Jeffers, Wanda Morris, and Vanessa Riley.

Bought by WNMU-FM and WKAR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Johannah Owusu and Madzimoyo Owusu
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Johannah and Madzimoyo at their StoryCorps Recording on July 10th, 2010, in Fort Wayne, Indiana., Credit: Photo by Jorge Rios for StoryCorps.
Madzimoyo Owusu talks with her daughter, Johannah Owusu, about the memory of Madzimoyo’s grandmother.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 34: Lost and Found
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 45:28
Black Pain White Media: Introducing URL Media, a new, BIPOC network
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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If Black Lives Matter, how are journalists and media organizations considering Black pain in their coverage? And how are journalists and editors ac...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Okwui Okpokwasili: Visibility for the Invisible, Centering Black Women's Experiences in Performance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can dance and song offer insight into a person’s experience, and provoke curiosity, even empathy across national identity, race and gender? In this...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Okwui Okpokwasili: Body Power, Racism and Gender Politics Through Performance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura interviews MacArthur Genius Award winning choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili about her groundbreaking experimental work to comm...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Building a Business with your Partner
From: Angel Livas
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On this week's WBB Talk we're excited to have a lady who manages benefits for one of the largest law firms in the country.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
StoryCorps Griot: Kathleen Payne and Corinthia Isom
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Kathleen Payne and Corinthia Isom at their StoryCorps interview in New York City, New York on September 29, 2015., Credit: Carolina Escobar for StoryCorps
Corinthia Isom and Kathleen Payne remember Corinthia’s mother, DeSeane Isom, and how Kathleen took Corinthia in after DeSeane died from an AIDS-rel...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 02:43
StoryCorps: SADA JACKSON AND ANGELA MOREHEAD-MUGITA
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Sada Jackson learns about her late-mother through her mom’s best friend, Angela Morehead-Mugita.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis


  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Maria Stewart – Sandra Kamusukiri – A Visit With a Free Black Woman – Boston 1840
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Maria W. Stewart, as characterized by professor and scholar Sandra Kamusakiri, was a free black woman who lived in Boston, MA, from the 1820s to th...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Build Your Brand & Position Your Business
From: Angel Livas
Series: The Woman Behind The Business
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This week on The Woman Behind The Business - we’re sharing practical skills and tools to help business owners with their branding and marketing nee...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:20
National Writers Series: Tayari Jones
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Novelist Tayari Jones talks with fellow writer Aaron Stander about her latest book, "An American Marriage."

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2018
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Kansas City Jazz Poet Phyllis Becker
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue Black History Month with Phyllis Becker. Coordinator of the Riverfront Reading Series in Kansas City, her own publications include the ...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WVAS, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Melody in Isolation
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Melody William's spent the first 18 months of her life sentence in lock-down.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:55
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison
From: With Good Reason
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNSB, KISA Digital Studios, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
Waking Up: A short play by Cori Thomas
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Lynette Freeman
A perfect choice for Breast Cancer Awareness month is Waking Up by Cori Thomas. It juxtaposes the experiences of an American urbanite's and an Afri...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 18:02
Wild Blessings (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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This Poetry Month: We celebrate the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, wo...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVMR, KENW, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Miss Anne in Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Carla Kaplan
White upper-class women seeking to become honorary blacks. Unheard of –right? That’s what began to happen during what became known as the Black Ren...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Southern Fiction Writer Stephanie Powell Watts
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Stephanie Powell Watts
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Slavery and Gender
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:05
A Taste of Sugar: The Sugar Pie de Santo Story (Part #3)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Sugar Pie de Santo, Credit: Chess Records
SUGAR PIE DE SANTO is a singer, dancer, band leader and song writer who is responsible for the hit with Etta James "In The Basement". She has recor...

  • Added: May 23, 2011
  • Length: 54:43