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When Tami Charles’ son was in kindergarten, he asked her: “If Dr. King was such a good guy who wanted all these wonderful things for everyone, Momm...
Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WRKF, RadioStPete Florida, Wyoming Public Radio, WUWM and more
- Added: Oct 17, 2023
- Length: 53:30
- Purchases: 14
There is a growing movement to redefine manhood, and to address ways that violence is baked into our cultural expectations of masculinity. Courageo...
- Added: Sep 20, 2022
- Length: 28:30
For Black History Month, we'll hear from Patricia Smith, the author of eight poetry books and the 2021 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for li...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The extent of Black history is vast, but it is not talked about nearly enough. A social studies teacher from Detroit is changing that by creating a...
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Ingrid Douglas never finished high school as a teenager. When she started looking for a better job at age sixty, she found not having a degree was ...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 32:46
- Purchases: 1
How should we talk about race and racism in America when the divide between Black and white can be so vast?
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:08:18
How does historical wellness play out in race and gender? Tune in to learn about historical wellness and its relation to a Black student’s and Bla...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 58:06
Season 1, Episode 10
Asha Lane, a senior at one of New Orleans' high schools (all of which are charter schools) investigates why security and disc...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:26
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1: Replacing detention with meditation. Topic 2: A complicated personal journey across race
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 48:34
- Purchases: 1
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
Artist profile of Dave McClinton, an Austin-based artist and graphic designer. This story is part of an audio series "See It Through My Eyes" creat...
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 05:24
One Teacher is short form audio content, each vignette is an interview with a story teller where they describe the 'one teacher' that inspired them...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 02:04
Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.
- Added: Feb 27, 2018
- Length: 05:00
In the 1990s, Johnny Holmes was head of security at a high school in Blue Island, Illinois, located just outside of Chicago, where he met Christian...
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 02:19
We all remember the influential teacher who made a difference in our lives. But for Drego Little, the teacher that changed his life was the one he ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
In the United States, we take the right to get an education for granted but that's not the case for many refugees. RadioActive's Faisa Muse brings ...
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 05:12
From: Out of Bounds
Morris, a long time advocate for equity in education talks candidly about her ground breaking book "Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in...
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
Jim Saint Germain and his former middle school dean discuss pivotal moments in their relationship and lessons Jim learned from his mentor.
- Added: Jul 25, 2016
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 3
Does your race affect how you act? Well, it probably affected how you answered that question.... In this award-winning story, hear why one young ma...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 3
Emmanuel Johnson is a senior at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C. As a part of WUNC's Youth Radio Project, he reports on a changing neighborhoo...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 1
When Radio Rookie Danielle Motindabeka came to the United States at age 13, she didn’t speak English. By the time she was in high school, Danielle ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
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
Julia R. Masterman High School Student Nuwar Ahmed introduces us to her classmates and teachers—all of whom are struggling to keep education a prio...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 07:10
New York State has the worst high school graduation rate in the country, according to a recent study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education....
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 1
