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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
There is a group in Durham, NC called “Parents of Murdered Children.” This week, we meet three of its members.
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 25:09
Ifrah Mansour is an artist who doesn't limit herself to a single medium. One of her creations is featured in the "I Am Somali" exhibit at the Minne...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 1
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
...To her late Eritrean-American husband, Ficre -- a painter, chef, and loving father -- in Elizabeth Alexander's new memoir, The Light Of The Worl...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Charme churns through the rough St. Louis Public Schools while she is going through her gender transition.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 08:37
- 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
Ayodeji Ogunniyi describes how the death of his father inspired him to become a teacher.
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 2
Mary Morris remembers her husband, Thomas, one of two Washington D.C. postal workers who died from exposure to anthrax in October, 2001.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Oct 13, 2011
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 1
Families of murder victims gather to offer each other support during the holiday season.
- Added: Jan 26, 2007
- Length: 04:32
The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVMR, WORT, KVNF and more
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 25:12
- Purchases: 26
