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Caption: Cover of the book, "America's Black Capital", Credit: Hachette Book Group
On this week's episode, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar about his latest book, “America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta ...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021
Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:09
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A conversation with Korie Griggs of the Color of Coffee Collective.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
Caption: Reta Jo Lewis is the president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States; she shares how she accomplished her groundbreaking rise through that financial glass ceiling.
"It's not just about the the betterment of you and your family. It's about the betterment of the community." That is one of the core values that he...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 49:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Hear the story of a public health professor with a passion for popcorn

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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Mercé Culp is a 4-dimensional artist. Her work includes street art, dance, fashion, graphic design, and video. Urban Digitz is the body of work she...

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  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Valerie Thompson is a native Toledoan and a graphic designer at ProMedica, but she's more than a graphic designer, she's the environmental designer...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Howard W. French
Most of us know very little about the history of the African American. Their contribution to our culture and society is rich and multilayered that...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Fletcher Word is a native of New York City and grew up in the Washington, DC area, but today we're talking about his contributions to his local Ohi...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 1
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A love for cooking isn’t the only reason to start a food business.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Today on The Rough Draft Diaries, we headed down to Bowling Green, Ohio to meet with DeAnte Shivers, the creator of TriggaMeals. It's a food busin...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2021
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on The Rough Draft Diaries we talk to Dr. Shanda Gore, the principal of MBAC, Minority Business Assistance Center. A development division tha...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jewel Kinch-Thomas finds solutions to America's racial reckoning by viewing the history of African Americans through the lens of an archetypal hero's or heroine's journey.
America’s racial reckoning is underway, yet continues to be hotly debated. One novel approach comes from leadership consultants Amiel Handelsman a...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 49:38
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Today we're talking to Rhonda Sewell, the first director of belonging & community engagement at the Toledo Museum of Art. Although Rhonda is fillin...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 1
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The Solheim Cup is headed to Toledo, Ohio in just about a week. It's a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers with teams represent...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Clifford has been a long-standing community activist on Austin’s east side. He routinely conducts focus groups, hosts various community meetings, a...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 08:50
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A generational discussion in 2002 about the American Dream

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 24:21
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We're talking football on today's episode of The RDD with 4th and Goal Athletics, a program designed to teach and enhance the athletic skills of co...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 06:24
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit, we're checking in with Imani Lateef of Peep Game Comix, a digital comics platform dedicated to the wo...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:02
Caption: Yolanda Franklin-Moore, Credit: Shefik
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
Caption: Alafaka Opuiyo, Credit: Shefik
Love - Alee Opuiyo is a 2005 Howard University School of Communications graduate. She majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Political Scie...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:19
Caption: André Wallace, Credit: Shefik
Rain - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, Creative Direction Constru...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:22
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