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“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 26:16
“The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator saying, ‘You have a collect call from Ian for Debb...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 33:47
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history?
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 2
From: World Footprints LLC
Hear about the initiative Franklin, Tennessee has launched to preserve and share a fuller and accurate truth about its place in American history.
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 32:22
Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 31:58
In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 22:24
- Purchases: 2
From: Melissa Saenz Gordon
A story about North Nashville contemporary artist Marlos E'van, who uses the social-practice art form to build community.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 06:12
- Purchases: 1
The process of cooking a dish connects Toni Burnett Rands to her ancestors. She recalls cooking with her grandmas and how power can be found throug...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 20, 2020
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 1
I'm Shawn Hughes and a student from Walter Payton College Prep. This project details, despite the success, the complications and struggles that our...
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 07:15
In this hour we hear five stories about how mass incarceration and our criminal legal system impact young people and families. According to the Ann...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Aug 09, 2020
- Length: 52:58
- Purchases: 1
In this hour we hear two stories interrogating two myths about our criminal legal system. First up is The Myth of The Super Predator, an idea firs...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 06, 2020
- Length: 52:59
- Purchases: 1
Season 1.5, Episode 3
Retried Judge Calvin Johnson was a lot of firsts, including the first elected African American judge in New Orleans. Johnso...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 11:51
Season 1.5, Episode 1
Being mistreated by the police, or seeing a family member mistreated by the police is traumatic, and it can cause lasting pr...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 10:59
- Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 14
Here’s what it’s like when you’re released from prison. You’re given a $20 debit card and a bus ride home. You need housing, ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:21
Season 1, Episode 11
The legal system operates very differently for juveniles and for adults. Yet the age at which a person is considered an adult...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:20
- Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 10
Asha Lane, a senior at one of New Orleans' high schools (all of which are charter schools) investigates why security and disc...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:26
- Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 6
What do you do when a member of your family is locked up for a crime you are sure he didn’t commit? Sheila Phipps paints.
She...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 09:20
- Purchases: 1
Faith - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditional style...
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 02:40
Wishes - Yolanda Franklin-Moore is Fashion Designer and Owner of Xande Fadee, an innovative fashion and accessories line. She is a highly skilled f...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 01:11
Identity - Author Larry Boatright, also known as M.C. El Bee in the hip-hop community, talks about the birth and propagation of hip-hop in the 1970...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 01:36
Happiness - Yolanda Franklin-Moore is Fashion Designer and Owner of Xande Fadee, an innovative fashion and accessories line. Yolanda is a highly sk...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 01:36
Perseverance - Dr. Hassan Tetteh is a board-certified surgeon specializing in thoracic surgery, critical care, heart and lung transplantation, rese...
- Added: Jul 03, 2020
- Length: 02:05
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
