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A historian and a journalist speak about the devaluation of human life past and present in America.
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Calvin Burns and his teenage daughter, Stepheni Bellamy, visit StoryCorps to have a difficult conversation about rac
Bought by WVBI-LP, Public Radio for All, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Apr 24, 2017
- Length: 02:50
- Purchases: 3
This is a story about how leaders of charities and organizations that help people in poverty, are joining together to help lower poverty. A couple ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 03:42
Author of "1968: A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then", Bill Natale sits down to discuss race relations in Chicago and his new book with Elysab...
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 47:02
Short Description: We honor the life of the playwright and American Book Award-winning fiction writer J. California Cooper, who passed away Septemb...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We revisit up-and-coming playwright, Christina Anderson. A native of Kansas City, Kansas, her plays have been produced around the country--from Ne...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
This food-justice-related audio collage features the voices of Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, co-managers of Gardens United, a community gar...
- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 04:52
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
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
In this piece, a middle school poet from Minneapolis tells of his background, including slavery and citizenship.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 01:25
- Purchases: 1
English professor and Harlem Renaissance expert Rafia Zafar discusses the ways in which food relates to ethnic, personal, and class identity.
- Added: Nov 25, 2013
- Length: 08:55
Are you My Baby? We’ve always been told it’s what’s on the inside that counts, but what if, what’s on the outside isn’t what you expected?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 04:42
An hour-long program exploring the musical, cultural, and culinary landscape of New Orleans.
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 59:00
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:26
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:31
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:08
It was a special time for jazz in the Bay Area. For most of the ‘70s and the early ‘80s, a small club called Keystone Korner presented a dazzling a...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 1
Darshon Moore speaks from experience of having parents representing differing cultural backgrounds
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 01:00
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
In Pointe-a-la-Hache, Louisiana, the oyster harvest feeds widows, sustains relationships, and keeps the rural economy humming. But the BP oil spill...
Bought by KUT and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 2
Before Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycotts, a 16-year-old student led a student strike that went all the way to the Supreme Court and helped...
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The piece investigates the mutual influence of African American and European American on each others' music styles.
- Added: Jan 27, 2010
- Length: 08:10
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré believes hard work can build character and promote freedom.
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 04:03
- Purchases: 6
In an age when handguns are bought and sold for less than twenty-dollars on urban street corners and the price of a human life sometimes seems even...
- Added: Dec 08, 2008
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
This week on YO!Radio -- father and son go on 3 million dollar spacewalk, girls outsmart boy and religion is the anti-drug. PLUS: Youth Speaks goes...
- Added: Dec 03, 2008
- Length: 07:22
Two men more or less allow themselves to become homeless in order to dedicate their time to writing poetry
Bought by Marfa Public Radio and Remix Radio
- Added: Sep 21, 2008
- Length: 29:09
- Purchases: 2
