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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
From: New Letters on the Air
Guest editor of BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2017, Natasha Trethewey talks about her her first creative non-fiction book, BEYOND KATRINA: A MEDITATION ON T...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Sep 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Kiki Petrosino imagines an escape from a fairy house.
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
In the mid-1990s, Reverend Sylvia Bullock was raising two kids on her own near Washington, D.C. while working and going to college full-time.
Her ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Aug 15, 2017
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
Jazz from Gallery 41 Host/Producer Ron Pelletier shares a conversation with Jazz legend Don Cherry recorded in Los Angeles, CA in January, 1982.
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
StoryCorps gives people the chance to sit down together and have a conversation they’ve never had before. Five Mualimm-ak did just that with his so...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 02:52
- Purchases: 1
This show is part II of our Juneteenth Series focusing African-American music and venues in North Tulsa from the 40's through the 60's. We intervi...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 58:58
Douglas Kearney pays tribute to the late music icon Prince.
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively,...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:58
This week we share news and stories from two people who have been caught up in very different ways in the web of prison. Both Bresha Meadows and Pa...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 30:10
Poncho’s Latin Spirits break the ice so Guy Davis can make a blues home. Pianist Jay McShann represents another KC pianist Mary Lou Williams, and P...
Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WOUB, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 7
Selwyn Birchwood is celebrating his highly anticipated second studio effort for Alligator Records, ‘Pick Your Poison’ which crafts authentic tradit...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, WLPR , GCR (Global Community Radio), KBBI Alaska and more
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: 01:56:05
- Purchases: 12
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Megan Yasu Davis. Megan is the founder of The Kitchen Salon, a natural and locked hair resource f...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 1
92 year old multi Grammy-nominated blues piano master, Henry Gray, is a living legend and a national treasure whose recording career spans seven de...
Bought by KMUW, WLPR , GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, WEAA and more
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 10
Composer Dolores White talks about some of her experiences of segregation, the importance of having access to a broad cultural education, and why e...
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 30:20
Composer Pamela Z lets us know what a phonolog was, how great the Museum of Jurassic Technology is (about which she co-wrote an opera), and how to ...
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 29:30
Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy, author of "Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South."
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 30:00
Calvin Burns and his teenage daughter, Stepheni Bellamy, visit StoryCorps to have a difficult conversation about rac
Bought by WVBI-LP, Public Radio for All, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Apr 24, 2017
- Length: 02:50
- Purchases: 3
A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 18:59
On the next all-NEW Snap..."Boxed In." When you feel the walls coming closer and closer, where do you go? Where do you hide?
- Added: Apr 06, 2017
- Length: 53:57
Tyrone Williams imagines a motorist’s confrontation with the police in a strip mall parking lot.
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Quraysh Ali Lansana recalls a compromised night on the U.S./Mexico border.
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Judge Michael John Ryan talks with his son, Michael Benjamin Ryan, about growing up in an abusive household, and how he found the strength to gradu...
Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 3
