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Hear the voices of farmers across the state talking about their farming lives and the challenges they face.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Johannah and Madzimoyo at their StoryCorps Recording on July 10th, 2010, in Fort Wayne, Indiana., Credit: Photo by Jorge Rios for StoryCorps.
Madzimoyo Owusu talks with her daughter, Johannah Owusu, about the memory of Madzimoyo’s grandmother.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Dennis Hopson is a basketball player. Hopson's shooting skills placed him first on Ohio State's all-time men's basketball career points record an...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Lieutenant Colonel Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad talks to his wife, Saleemah Muhammad, about becoming the first Muslim chaplain in the U.S. Armed Forces, ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
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We talk with physician and activist Rupa Marya and her co-author writer and food activist Raj Patel about their book, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and t...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Lieutenant Commander La’Shanda Holmes talks to her mentor, Commander Jeanine Menze, about being the first two Black female pilots in the United Sta...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:25
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Today we're talking to Rhonda Sewell, the first director of belonging & community engagement at the Toledo Museum of Art. Although Rhonda is fillin...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Liberty  & Justice For Some: Two Centuries of Independent Black Leaders & Political Movements
Here’s a seemingly inexplicable historical event: How did the anti-slavery Republican party take the White House in 1861, only six years after its ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 32:00
Caption: Angel Blue, Credit: Jack Hill
Meet soprano Angel Blue who is opening the new season at the Metropolitan Opera's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones." Composed by Terence Blanchard, it's t...

Bought by WMPG, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 3
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What is possible when we listen to Black people’s food stories beyond an all encompassing narrative of lack?

  • Added: Sep 20, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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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
Caption: Pamela Sneed's poetic memoir "Funeral Diva" is described as a “coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s.”, Credit: Patricia Silva
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...

Bought by KALW and WORT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The Solheim Cup is headed to Toledo, Ohio in just about a week. It's a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers with teams represent...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Terri Lyne Carrington, Credit: Delphine Diallo
Virtuoso drummer and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington talks about career and her advocacy for “jazz without patriarchy.”

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, New England Public Media, and KZUM


  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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“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
Caption: Sheoyki Jones
This week is a bit different: the podcast is divided into two parts with one subject: investing in the creative economy with Laura Callanan, foundi...

Bought by KMUN, RADIOLEX, KFAI Minneapolis, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 5
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Oshae Jones continues to make history at the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 after becoming the first female to represent Team USA in the welterweight div...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
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On today’s show we partnered with a young artist named Summer Blake, studying film & television at Drexel University. Summer had the opportunity ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 19:43
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Discussions with authors Imbolo Mbue and Alan Lightman.

Bought by WKAR, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 30:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Maestro W. H. Curry
Composer, Conductor, and Music Director of the Durham Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Curry has inspired generations of musicians and audiences with hi...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 1
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For National Pride Month, we'll hear from 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, who describes the joy he finds in writing poetry and how his wo...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Jericho Brown, Credit: Brian Cornelius
Jericho Brown talks about writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection The Tradition

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Michael R. Jackson, Credit: Zack DeZon
Michael R. Jackson takes us through the making of A Strange Loop his prize-winning musical about a Black queer musical theater writer.

Bought by KALW, KZUM, WMPG, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4