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Making Home (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Lauren K. Alleyne lived the first part of her life in Trinidad and then moved to America at 18 and has been there since. Her poems explore what it’...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KXCV


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
MN Reads: "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself" by David Mura
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author David Mura talks about his new book "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself"

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 17:13
Prize-winning author and educator Renée Watson talks writing for young people.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Renee Watson, Credit: NAACPO
What goes into writing for young adults? In this 2019 interview, prize-winning author and educator Renée Watson shares a few ideas!

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:02
Conversations: Shirlene Obuobi, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with physician, artist, and author, Shirlene Obuobi about fiction as escapism, and the stories behind her debut novel...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 38:22
2022-07-31 James Baldwin and Social Justice
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The prolific writer and Civil Rights-era activist was born August 2, 1924.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith
From: New Letters on the Air
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Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate 2017-19, kicked off her poetry career with the 2002 Cave Canem Prize, awarded to exceptional manuscripts of firs...

Bought by WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, and WJCU


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
National Writers Series: Honorée Jeffers, Wanda Morris, Vanessa Riley
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Rochelle Riley talks with authors Honorée Jeffers, Wanda Morris, and Vanessa Riley.

Bought by WNMU-FM and WKAR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Wonder Years (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Being a Black girl in a mostly white space can bring stress, frustration, anger, and all kinds of mixed emotions.

Bought by WMMT, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Wonder Years (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Being a Black girl in a mostly white space can bring stress, frustration, anger, and all kinds of mixed emotions.

Bought by WTJU, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Wonder Years (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Being a Black girl in a mostly white space can bring stress, frustration, anger, and all kinds of mixed emotions.

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, Harford Community Radio, WJCU and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Wonder Years (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Being a Black girl in a mostly white space can bring stress, frustration, anger, and all kinds of mixed emotions.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Saluting Zora Neale Hurston and her biographer the late Valerie Boyd
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Valerie Boyd, Credit: Courtesy: Valerie Boyd
We’re marking Women’s history month by replaying my in-depth interview with the late Valerie Boyd who wrote the acclaimed “Wrapped in Rainbows: the...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KZUM, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Newton's Annotator (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WRGY and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7
Newton's Annotator (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by KMUN, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Newton's Annotator (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Newton's Annotator (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Kingsley Tufts Award-winning Poet Patricia Smith: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Patricia Smith, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the 2018 winner of the coveted Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, is now the 2021 Ruth...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
REPLAY American Terrorism (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and WMMT


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
REPLAY American Terrorism (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by KUAT, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
REPLAY American Terrorism (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
REPLAY American Terrorism (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by KUAT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Stagecraft (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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During the early months of the pandemic, live theater shut down completely.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHEN-LP, WCNY, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Stagecraft (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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During the early months of the pandemic, live theater shut down completely.

Bought by WTJU, WMMT, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Stagecraft (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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During the early months of the pandemic, live theater shut down completely.

Bought by KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WFHB and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Stagecraft (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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During the early months of the pandemic, live theater shut down completely.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3