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Leaveil Degree of The Whispers: Describe Those Things Very Tastefully
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Leaveil Degree, Credit: Shefik
Romance - Leaveil Degree is a member of The Whispers. The group scored 15 top-ten R&B singles, and eight top-ten R&B albums, with two of them, "The...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
StoryCorps Griot: Rowan Allen and Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay speaks with Rowan Allen, the EMT who saved her son’s life and inspired her to become a nurse.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:59
TriggaMeals
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today on The Rough Draft Diaries, we headed down to Bowling Green, Ohio to meet with DeAnte Shivers, the creator of TriggaMeals. It's a food busin...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Dec 06, 2021
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Libby Stroik
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Libby Stroik talks about finding a kindred spirit in her grandfather, Harry Golomski, and about her treasured memories of their quiet mornings in r...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:29
Melba Moore: Things Don't Always Happen When You Want Them To
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Melba Moore, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - American R&B singer and actress Melba Moore is a 4-time Grammy Award nominee and the winner of the 1970 Tony Award for Best Performa...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: :56
StoryCorps: Keith Sims and Melvin Pender
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Melvin Pender (right) with his friend, Keith Sims, at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta last month.
During the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, many black athletes were called to protest racial inequality. Not all were able to do so. That was the case f...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Creating a Home: Ballet Afrique
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
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China Smith and her students share their perspectives on the dance world, and describe how they created their own world in Ballet Afrique.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 04:42
The Lower 9th Ward Lives On
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Robert Green, Lower 9th ward resident, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2015
  • Length: 13:31
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: William Watford and Deidre Robinson
From: StoryCorps
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Many families with LGBTQ members across generations are personally familiar with the “coming out” conversation. Deidra Robinson and her father, Wi...

  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:02
StoryCorps: Raphael Hameed, Heidi Hameed, and Megiddëh Goldston
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Raphael and Heidi Hameed (R) lost their son when he was struck by a speeding car. They spoke with Megiddëh Goldston (L), the driver's sister, about...

Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 3
Fallen Heroes of 2014
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Yuri Kochiyama, Credit: Bob Hsiang
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...

Bought by WNJR and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Rowena Gore-Simmons and Kenya Gore
From: StoryCorps
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Rowena Gore-Simmons speaks with her daughter, Kenya Gore, about the year Rowena spent in prison.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
Hamlin & Chicago by Aliscia Ivy
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:25
Encore Presentation of Broadway Star Lawrence Hamilton
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tin Roof Project Encore Presentations
Caption: Lawrence Hamilton
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton tells his own true story of his childhood in racially-divided south Arkansas. These encore presentations of our Tin...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Muhammad Ali
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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To be the “Greatest of All Time,” boxing legend Muhammad Ali says you have to believe in yourself.

Bought by WEZU, KRZA, KFAI Minneapolis, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 10
This I Believe - Van Jones
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Environmental activist and White House advisor Van Jones believes in making his late father proud.

Bought by KGUA, WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, and WEZU


  • Added: May 07, 2009
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 4
Aha Moment: Underground Railroad
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
Now Jumping Back to the Pool
From: LA Lands
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This piece focuses on memories of the pool in South Rome, an historically black neighborhood in Rome (Floyd County), Georgia.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2007
  • Length: 02:03