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On this program, we talk with Jon Voss and Monique Davis about the future of museums. Jon is a founding member of Shift Collective. Monique is the ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2020
- Length: 59:00
Today, Interchange shared segments from three episodes that aired throughout the year – they all three touched on aspects of our current moment wit...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Oct 20, 2020
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
From walking a horse 6 miles on a rail trail, to transporting 24 sheep in the back of a Chrysler minivan, these young farmers will find a way to ge...
- Added: Oct 08, 2020
- Length: 53:59
Dr. Ayim Darkeh speaks with his mother, Shirley, about his experiences being one of the few Black students at his predominantly white elementary sc...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 1
We revisit a 2017 conversation with the legendary tenor saxophonist.
Bought by WCNY and Harford Community Radio
- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 29:44
- Purchases: 2
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series revisits Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, whose 2020 book, CASTE, is now a bestseller. ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDCB, and WRKF
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The current uprisings, which are beginning to threaten the status quo of policing in the United States and bringing the demands of abolition into t...
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 58:22
A piece by Lael Saphir. My piece is about what it feels like to be a P.O.C. dancer in a community that excludes you.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 06:47
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore allyship - How to support black people and other people of color in the fight for equity, protection from police brutal...
- Added: Aug 13, 2020
- Length: 29:30
An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...
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- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
Having lived through America’s Civil Rights Movement, author Janet Cheatham Bell joins World Footprints to reflect on her life journey from a segre...
- Added: Aug 02, 2020
- Length: 31:16
Join World Footprints as we discuss the power of storytelling, narratives on race and, of course, travel.
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 39:54
After being incarcerated for 15 years, Chalana McFarland is reunited with her daughter following a federal memorandum that called for releasing non...
Bought by WYAP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WERA-LP
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 3
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green speaks with her cousin Tenika Floyd about being raised by her Auntie and Uncle, and how their separate battles with cancer...
Bought by WERA-LP
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 02:48
- 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
In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, me...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK
- Added: Jul 08, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Poet Adrian Mateka talks about The Big Smoke a collection of 52 poems about Jack Johnson--the first African-American heavyweight world champion.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KMUN, KGNU Community Radio, KZUM, and Harford Community Radio
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 29:27
- Purchases: 5
A conversation with two-time National Book Award winner, Jesmyn Ward.
Bought by Harford Community Radio and KMUN
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 28:53
- Purchases: 2
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 the Summer of 2020, we revisit a discussion on police killings of Black people from 2016 after the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castil...
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 59:03
As protests over the killing of George Floyd have taken over the streets of every major city, have converted hotels to homeless shelters and best f...
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 59:01
On this program we talk with Amde Hamilton of the Watts Prophets, who reads poems from his book Me Today, You Tomorrow, and recounts how out of the...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 58:29
