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Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...
- Added: Dec 29, 2020
- Length: 29:59
The centerpiece in today’s program is our talk about the essay “The Suffering of Strangers” which details a visit Sanders took to Charleston, South...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 59:06
- Purchases: 1
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.
- Added: Feb 27, 2018
- Length: 05:00
A social worker who now helps others who are making the transition from prison talks with his mentor about their first meeting inside Sing Sing pri...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and Public Radio for All
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 3
Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson’s brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the poli...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR
- Added: Jun 30, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
A thoughtful array of ideas about race, with the voices of President Obama, young James Batley, and theatre professor Fanni Green.
- Added: Nov 27, 2013
- Length: 03:47
Since the 1994 demise of South Africa's apartheid system, photography in that country has taken on a new freedom, and a new meaning. It has evolve...
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 06:05
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
In Pointe-a-la-Hache, Louisiana, the oyster harvest feeds widows, sustains relationships, and keeps the rural economy humming. But the BP oil spill...
Bought by KUT and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 2
Consider spending time on death row and turning that experience into the drive to get a doctorate?
- Added: Nov 16, 2009
- Length: 29:00
Michael Gabby wasn't too optimistic going into the election. Now he's proud to believe in America.
- Added: Feb 09, 2009
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 2
Commentary about the hopes of Mixed Race people and the Presidential race.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KCUR, Remix Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 08, 2008
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 5
Surgeon Pius Kamau believes in caring for his patients, even when they don?t care for a black doctor.
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 3