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Poet and NAACP Image Award Winner Patricia Smith: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, we'll hear from Patricia Smith, the author of eight poetry books and the 2021 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for li...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_7.13_Dressed Up Education
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Every school day in February, first grade teacher LaToya McGriff dresses up to teach Black History.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Raashan Ahmad & Black Story/ Black Song
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Raashan Ahmad talks about his project Black Story/ Black Song, an incredible program made to evolve our understanding of the contributions of Afric...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:54
StoryCorps: Karama Neal and Judge Olly Neal
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Karama Neal (left) with Judge Olly Neal (right).
Judge Olly Neal tells his daughter how discovering African American author Frank Yerby's books in his school library turned him around academically.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Reading Race
From: Rebecca Nolan
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A racial justice book group confronts the reality of racism on Cape Cod.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:32
"The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America" with Michael Eric Dyson
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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Michael Eric Dyson's new book, "The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America", explores the powerful, surprising way the p...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:50
"The Symphony," an African-American poetry collective
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: R. Dwayne Betts of The Symphony Poets
The Symphony is a group of African-American poets originally comprised of John Murillo, R. Reginald Dwayne Betts, Randall Horton, and Marcus Jackso...

Bought by WNJR and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
“Fire Shut Up In My Bones”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
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New York Times columnist Charles Blow, one of America's most innovative and respected journalists, has written a redemptive memoir that fits both t...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:49
Street Education
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series
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Pointing to the environment as a learning tool, MK Asante interlaces personal stories of the unconventional teachers that allow his precocity to sh...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Self-education
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series
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Propelled by an insatiable thirst for knowledge, MK Asante’s self-discovery continues as his father and a teacher at an alternative school feed his...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Re-education
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series
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MK Asante invites listeners to travel with him as an alternative educational system reinvigorates the natural curiosity that other schools—public a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Miseducation
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series
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MK Asante takes listeners on a personal odyssey as he takes a fresh perspective on a common topic: the disparity between public and private schools...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Art & Creativity
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series
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Insisting that creativity and imagination are often stripped from the American education system, MK Asante offers ideas for its implementation. Geo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
Caption: Annette Gordon-Reed
Reed talks about The Hemingses of Monticello, her award-winning book about Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemmings.

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
  • Length: 29:47
  • Purchases: 1
Take Your Seats, Class!
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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The inner secrets of a comma, a writer, a teacher.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:24
The Theme of Revival in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Literary Moments
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Novelist Alice Walker discusses the theme of revival in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God."

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
KERA Commentary: "Finn"
From: KERA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A review of the Jon Clinch novel, "Finn".

  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 02:59
What's the Word? Poet Michael S. Harper on the Poet's Art
From: Modern Language Association
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Michael S. Harper talks about what he teaches in his poetry classes and reads some his favorite poems.

Bought by WLIW, KUER, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 8