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This episode explores childhood innocence and its relationship to race.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KFOI Radio
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 05:24
- Purchases: 2
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
What role did African-Americans play in the Revolutionary War? "Chains" - the first in a trilogy by Laurie Hulse Anderson - takes us to Manhattan i...
- Added: Feb 16, 2016
- Length: 21:04
Think about some of the classics of children’s literature. There’s Where the Wild Things Are...Goodnight Moon...and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatbal...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 08:14
- Purchases: 2
Dove shawn 070715Shawn Dove serves as CEO of the Campaign for Black Male Achievement (CBMA), a national membership organization designed to ensur...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 01:19:40
Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President of the Children's Defense Fund, has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire profes...
- Added: Jul 15, 2015
- Length: 01:07:36
audio postcard or sonic id describing koolaid pickles from 4th graders in Helena, Arkansas
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 01:58
Nicholas Heyward Sr. remembers his son, Nicholas Jr., a 13-year-old who was playing with a toy gun when he was killed by a police officer in Brookl...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 02:40
Lady E lost just about everything that gave her life meaning and then she found something else inside her. Her voice.And now Lady E sings the blues...
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 27:23
Composer Victor Zupanc and actor Ansa Akeya of the Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis discuss the challenges and charm of Mark Twain's "Huck...
- Added: Mar 27, 2015
- Length: 05:05
Nine-year-old Aidan Sykes interviews his father, Albert Sykes, about being a dad.
Bought by WEZU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 2
African-American author LaShonda Katrice Barnett, interviewed recently on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (2/8/15), reads here from her heralded new n...
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
When I was 15, my father was sentenced to three months in prison. I was one of the 2.7 million Americans under 18 with a parent who’s incarcerated.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
Raphael and Heidi Hameed (R) lost their son when he was struck by a speeding car. They spoke with Megiddëh Goldston (L), the driver's sister, about...
Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 3
Herman Travis speaks with his neighbor Robert Cochran about delivering food to elderly and disabled residents of his housing complex.
Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 01:42
- Purchases: 3
Franklin Gilliard and his wife, Sherry, reflect upon their time in a homeless shelter after...
Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 3
Andre Simms is 45. He’s been shot. Stabbed. Homeless. Arrested. He sold and used drugs. But everything changed when his girlfriend died and he was ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 29, 2014
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
The Bay Area’s cultural diversity is translated in so many different ways; you can hear it in how many languages are spoken here. For parents want...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 07:01
In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the landmark US Supreme Court case Brown versus Board of Education, internationally renowned education ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 01:45
Internationally renowned education expert Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., discusses the expansion of educational options afforded to many children as a resul...
- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 01:45
For StoryCorps' 10th anniversary, we're revisiting some favorite stories.
At 27, Wil Smith's age wasn't the only thing that set him apart from oth...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 2
Sometimes the best kind of learning happens when you don’t even realize you’re being taught. That’s the case at a new inner city youth fishing prog...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 2
Data from the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering shows the U.S. is not producing enough engineers to meet future demand. And th...
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 04:18
A national study by the Cooperative Children's Books Center at the University of Wisconsin reports that diversity is lacking in children's literatu...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 19, 2013
- Length: 04:24
- Purchases: 1
