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Caption: Yolanda Franklin-Moore, Credit: Shefik
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
Caption: Albert and Aidan Sykes in Jackson, Mississippi, 2020, Credit: Albert Sykes.
Albert Sykes returns to StoryCorps with his son Aidan--now 14-- to talk about how Aidan is feeling as a young Black man in 2020.

Bought by WERA-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
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Being told by my mother that I’m Ethiopian is the only connection that I have to this stranger: my father.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
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10-year-old Leila Ramgren talks with her father, Chad Eisen-Ramgren, about Philando Castile, the cafeteria manager at her school who was killed by ...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'"' - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination. HOUR 2: "Artificial Creativity" - Scientists are ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a police officer. Just before he retired as chief, 5 ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: RadioActive hosts Paul Kiefer and Hassan Abdi., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/JENNY ASARNOW
RadioActive youth producers take a look at one of the most important things in their lives: school.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 12:12
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How do cultural constructs, like race, influence our relationship to the natural world? Poet and professor Camille Dungy explores this question by ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 25:50
Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint
"Never Their Shame" explores one of the most troubling legacies of the past for African Americans that continues to be a problem in the black comm...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint
Black and Proud explores the era when African Americans began to aggressively challenge myths of inferiority. As Martha Bouyer, a participant in th...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KISU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint
Three veterans of the Civil Rights Movement share recollections of violence in Birmingham Alabama during the 1960s, including the bombing of the 16...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Generation Justice fellow Matthew Brown reflects on the exploits of Dr. King, and the legacy he left for America.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:41
Caption: Emmett Till and mother Mamie
Professors Marva Lewis and Marvin Dunn discuss "stereotype threat" and its effect on African Americans sense of safety when interacting with police...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 4
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We talk with Samson Longtin, Business Equity Liaison of the Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency and renowned poetic storyteller, Oba William King...

  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 16:28
Caption: Lina Nguyen, Kyra Johnson, and Ava Muniz are 6th graders at Sonora Elementary School in Costa Mesa
Writer Ronald L. Smith takes us on a trip down south, to the backwoods of Alabama, where a young boy was born with a heart-shaped birthmark, the ma...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 21:53
Caption: On The Bus
History doesn't stay in the past.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Snap Judgment
On the next all-NEW Snap, "Perfect Match." You've seen them around, holding hands, stars in their eyes...and you wonder how they do it. Do they kno...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
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Today on Culture Clique we air part one of "What's Race Got to do With It" Media Management of Minority Images, with Bryant K. Smith. The purpose o...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:20
Caption: Chef Kevin Mitchell at the Nat Fuller Feast of 2015, Credit: Photo by Jonathan Boncek
Charleston, South Carolina has become the center of discussions about race and violence in America these past few weeks. But a dinner party held in...

Bought by KVLU, WJCT, and WABE


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 3
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Radio Curious visits with Dr. Joseph Marshall, co-founder of Alive and Free, a community violence prevention effort for at-risk inner city youth to...

  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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The Harlem Renaissance Era of the 20’s, the "New Negroes" who had begun to express themselves in a variety of cultural and social spheres- W.E.B. ...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:18
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Since last August, the cultural conversation has centered on #blacklivesmatter, Ferguson and the death of Eric Garner. But it’s less common to hear...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:43
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Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 07:21
  • Purchases: 2
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From the book, "For The Love Of Baseball: A Celebration Of The Game That Connects Us All," co-editor Lee Gutkind reads from his chapter. Just one o...

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00