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The Many Ways We Mother

From: The Stoop

An exploration of the different ways Black people parent

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KJZZ, KALW, KECG, and KUHF

Musician's Spotlight - Portland Cello Project 2023 - 856

From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight

The Portland Cello Project returns to Musician's Spotlight, and this time they are joined by frequent collaborator singer Saeeda Wright. Doug Jenki...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP

SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: Someday, Will We Ever Be Free? Juneteenth with Opal Lee

From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials

The grandmother of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, joins a special edition of I SEE U and shares her perspective on the commercialization of this cultural ev...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KECG

StoryCorps: Burnell Cotlon and Lillie Cotlon

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Lillie Cotlon and Burnell Cotlon in front of Burnell’s store, ‘Burnell’s Lower Ninth Ward Market’ in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 19, 2015., Credit: By Ian Spencer Cook for StoryCorps.

Eight years after their original StoryCorps interview, Burnell Cotlon reflects with his mother, Lillie Cotlon, about opening up a store in New Orle...

StoryCorps Griot: Daniel Sampson and Charlie Sampson

From: StoryCorps

Caption: Charlie Sampson and his son Daniel Sampson at their StoryCorps interview in Denver, Colorado on May 30, 2023. , Credit: By Tamekia Jackson for StoryCorps.

Growing up in LA’s Watts neighborhood, a visit to a traveling carnival introduced Charlie Sampson to life as a professional cowboy. In 1982 he beca...

Bad Blood, Bad Science

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?

National Writers Series: Alvin Hall

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four

WDET's Jerome Vaughn talks with financial advisor and author Alvin Hall.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR

MN Reads: "Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight" by Shannon Gibney

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Shannon Gibney talks about her new picture book "Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight"

StoryCorps: Margaret Powell and Folashade Alao

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Margaret Powell and Folashade Alao at their StoryCorps in Decatur, Georgia on January 31, 2023, Credit: Kevin Alarcon

Folashade Alao remembers when she presented a Bill of Rights to her mother, Margaret Powell, and how it shaped their relationship.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio

John Penny’s Jazz Recycles Many Jazz Styles and He Reflects on Jazz Cultural Backgrounds

From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend

Caption: John Penny, Credit: Andrea Canter

Guitarist John Penny Is in touch with many jazz styles, and he uses many as sources for his new compositions. Also, when John performs, he offers i...

StoryCorps Griot: Monica Mickle and Rev. Harry Blake

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Rev. Harry Blake came to StoryCorps to speak with his daughter Monica Mickle about how his experiences growing up the son of a sharecropper in Loui...

Black Enough

From: The Stoop

What does it mean to be 'Black enough'?

Bought by WLPR , WRGY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WFDD, KALW and more

StoryCorps Griot: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer at their StoryCorps interview in Saint Clair Shores, MI, and Sparks, NV, on Feb. 6, 2022. , Credit: By StoryCorps

Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Bought by Vermont Public

Desmond Tutu and the continuing importance of youth activism

From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime

February 1, 2022 – A young straight ally considers his own place in activism

Bought by RADIOLEX

Episode 37: What Gets Told

From: Criminal
Series: This is Love

“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.

'Funeral Diva' poet Pamela Sneed: "We can heal"

From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown

From: New Letters on the Air

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

Austin Musician Jonathan 'Chaka' Mahone

From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021

As one-half of Austin's 'Band of the Year,' (RAS) Riders Against the Storm, Jonathan 'Chaka' Mahone is a born musician. Knowing that it's truly 'bi...

The Write Question - Hanif Abdurraquib

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Poet and culture critic Hanif Abdurraquib discusses his new book, "A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

April 2021 – Bullied gay seventh grader

From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime

Caption: OutCasting youth participant Justin

How did he deal with it? Was his school helpful? What did he learn from it?

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 2

From: New Letters on the Air

Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 1

From: New Letters on the Air

NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues Black History Month with Nikky Finney whose fifth book is called LOVE CHILD'S HOTBED OF OCCASIONAL POETRY: POEMS A...

Bought by KWMR and GCR (Global Community Radio)

Geraldine's Story: How Public Schools Are Failing Black Students with Dyslexia

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Geraldine Robinson, center, and one of her sons, right, wait for her to be honored for her advocacy by the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in September 2019

Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...

The Fallen of 2020

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...

On Passing

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

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