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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
We travel to Indianapolis, IN to explore the story of literary great Etheridge Knight, who published his first book, the soulful 1968 masterpiece ...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:09
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh unpacks the saga of the Contract Buyers League, a local activist group in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood that organized in the 1...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 2
Once a refugee family has been here for a while, the children often become ambassadors to the outside world. It's the kids who have to translate fo...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 07:54
- Purchases: 1
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa reads from and discusses his latest collection, WARHORSES (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2008).
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 17, 2009
- Length: 16:51
- Purchases: 1
Outside the Apollo Theater in Harlem, fans and well-wishers gathered to pay tribute to Michael Jackson.
- Added: Jul 07, 2009
- Length: 02:07
One-hour special delves into the history and music of songwriting and singing team Ashford & Simpson.
Bought by WFUV, KPSQ-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KPIP-LP, WSGE and more
- Added: Feb 04, 2009
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 19
Chief Warren McDaniels, the first black fire chief in New Orleans passed away on Feb. 23.
- Added: Mar 06, 2008
- Length: 06:28
After spending almost 13 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Rick Walker and his family adapt to life after exoneration.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Remix Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2007
- Length: 15:05
- Purchases: 2
The Bayview community's apprehension to a proposed redevelopment plan.
- Added: Jul 07, 2007
- Length: 14:13
Bethany Ocansey reminisces about the influence of racism on her childhood and how it didn't affect her until she moved from Europe to America.
- Added: Sep 11, 2006
- Length: 03:55
How one man went from an African war zone to performing on the stages of California.
- Added: Feb 02, 2006
- Length: 16:55
- Purchases: 2
One family talks about leaving their home in the New Orleans 9th ward as water rose toward the roof, floating their baby in a cooler toward safer g...
- Added: Oct 17, 2005
- Length: 04:20
A year in the life of Catherine "Coco" Means, as she leaves her long-time home in a Chicago public housing development and moves to her first priva...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KGNU Community Radio, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes and more
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 27:46
- Purchases: 8
