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Good Intentions: A Story of Cross-Racial Adoption
From: Brenna Daldorph
Caption: The Purdy family pose in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1984 when all four kids were in high school. From left, Kristen, Ron, Jessica, Hoãng Stephen, David and Pamela Purdy., Credit: Photo courtesy Pamela Chatterton Purdy
For more than forty years, Reverend David Purdy and his wife Pamela saw themselves as the heroes in their own story – white people who were civil r...

Bought by WJCT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 14:10
  • Purchases: 3
King Stories: (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
From: Dorothy Green Alcorn
Caption: King Poster, Credit: Nicolene DuToit
King Stories is a one hour documentary of captivating stories told by close friends and associates of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Host Julian Bond,...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRWG, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 54:26
  • Purchases: 88
SRP: African, American
From: Chelsea Davis
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Three Sudanese teens who have immigrated to the U.S. share three very different takes on what it’s like to live here.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
Carrie Parker's Relatives speak at IU
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Carrie Parker's 40 some relatives are speaking in her honor at Indiana University. Carrie Parker was the first African American to attend IU

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:28
The real history behind Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco's Voodoo Queen
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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In the mid 1800’s, boomtown-San Francisco was a city of men, only about 15 percent women. Slavery was illegal in the West but still-- white men wer...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 10:30
  • Purchases: 1
Felix The Different
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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"My understanding had a name now." An 86 year old retired autistic judge chronicles his journey from the Everglade Swamp of the segregated South to...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 20:50
#1: Faith, Fatherhood & Football with Ted Ginn, Sr.
From: Alan Duncan
Series: The Pine
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Join the team onThe Pine as they visit with Ted Ginn, Executive Director of the Ginn Academy.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2015
  • Length: 18:12
"Fire Fight: The Struggle To Integrate NYC's Fire Department"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In NYC, African-Americans make up nearly 26% of the population but make up less than 4% of the NYC Fire Department. For the past 150 years, the cit...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:01
Diane Watkins: Bells for Peace
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Diane Watkins of Richmond, Virginia.
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...

  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 27:33
"The Other Blacklist"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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The Cutting Edge presents Mary Helen Washington, author of “ The Other Blacklist” which shows how the government targeted African- American as wel...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:02:17
Episode 18: 695BGK
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men. It ...

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2015
  • Length: 21:41
  • Purchases: 2
George Fletcher at the 1911 Pendleton Roundup
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The true story of American Black cowboy, George Fletcher and Indian cowboy, Jackson Sundown, at the 1911 Pendleton Roundup.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
Taking Nothing for Granted, Mathias' National Anthem
From: D. 'Fitz' Allgood
Series: The Allgood News
Caption: Mathias Mulumbo- Singing in Uganda
I dropped by the National Anthem tryouts for the local minor league baseball team. Looking for a story about people singing and why. And then I hea...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:42
Expandable Sound 3: James Blood Ulmer
From: Jake Nussbaum
Caption: James Blood Ulmer
Guitar activist and legendary improvisor James Blood Ulmer discusses his early life, Jimi Hendrix, black history, and much more in this one-hour mu...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
Madame C. J. Walker
From: Brian Hawkins
Series: Heroes in Black History
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America's first African American female millionaire.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KBEM, KSKA, RadioStPete Florida, KETR-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 8
Snap 521: The Passion Part 1: Snap Live! In SF, 9/11/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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On the next Snap, we're dropping the story-pocalypse. Snap Judgment presents "The Passion" performed LIVE! in San Francisco's Nourse Theater. Amazi...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
Resurrecting Slave Cabins at Montpelier
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: The slave cabin in the foreground with Montpelier in the background., Credit: Kelley Libby
For years, at historic plantation sites across the South, the focus was on the big house and not on the slave cabins. But cabins like that are now ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 10:33
  • Purchases: 1
Song Story S0.E3 - Arlan Feiles's "Viola" (pre-season sneak-peek)
From: Eric Ginsberg
Series: Song Story
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Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This pre-season sneak-peek features singer/songwriter/produce...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 13:17
  • Purchases: 1
"Slavery's Exiles: The Story of American Maroons"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN THIS EDITION OF THE CUTTING EDGE, WE BRING YOU A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HISTORIAN ERIC FONER AND SYLVIAN DIOUF, AUTHOR OF “SLAVERY’S EXILES: THE STORY...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:56
Along Saint Claude
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: Eppy Livaccari, Credit: Jonathan Traviesa
Gentrification is just the newest name for the changes happening in New Orleans' neighborhoods downriver from the French Quarter. Along Saint Claud...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
You Are How You Sound
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
Linguistic Insights
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Race to an Emergency
From: KALW
Caption: Lesley Philips and Sharena Thomas, Credit: The People's Community Medics
A special hour-long documentary, where host Martina Castro and reporter Ali Budner trace the path of a 9-1-1 call in Oakland, California to figure ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 1
PPW - Washington: A Question of Freedom
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: Dwayne Betts
For D.C. youths who get caught up in the adult system, prison isn’t just an experience, it’s a journey. Because it’s not a full-fledged state, the ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 54:24
  • Purchases: 1

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