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Poet Rachel Smith, 18, is a senior and a member of Epic Sound, the Kenwood Academy Slam Poetry Team. This is her second year participating in Loud...
Bought by YouthCast
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 1
Students all over Philadelphia are being pushed out of schools and right into the school to prison pipeline. This is happening because of the lack ...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 03:45
Since it's February, I wanted to ask teachers and students from my high school how they felt about Black History Month. The responses were surprising.
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 04:21
A bell tower that has been mute for 70 years at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia is about to get a voice thanks to Diane Watkins.
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 55:55
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
: Public school students and parents are seeing some changes this year in the way their schools handle bullying. That’s because of a law passed by...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 24, 2012
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 1
Cobi is a Dutch nurse liiving and working in a South African township. She helps orphans getting over their Aids HIV stigma and against the violenc...
- Added: Jan 11, 2012
- Length: 10:38
In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...
Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 27
John Hunter talks with two former students about what they learned playing the World Peace Game, which he created.
Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and KUOW
- Added: Jan 03, 2012
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 4
Ayodeji Ogunniyi describes how the death of his father inspired him to become a teacher.
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 2
We remember Hubert Sumlin, legendary guitarist and long-time sideman for Howlin' Wolf, passed away at the age of 80 on December 4, 2011.
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 02:30
A.P. Tureaud Jr. tells his friend Steven Walkley about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.
Bought by WEZU, KUOW, and Vocalo.org
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 3
Meet Morris Robinson, who was an All-American at The Citadel, started studying voice at the age of 30, and sings at the great opera houses througho...
- Added: Oct 11, 2011
- Length: 27:03
Earl Reynolds Jr. tells his daughter, Ashley, about meeting James Brown at his father's barbershop in Roanoke, Virginia.
Bought by Radio Catskill, WEZU, Delta College Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 4
I spoke with my best friend, my mother, and my coach about the roles of a young woman in the household, as dictated by East African culture.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Aug 19, 2011
- Length: 10:34
- Purchases: 1
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
The Blind Boys of Alabama and Dr. Darrell Rigel, this week on Prime Time Radio.
Bought by WCNY and Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 2
As of 2009, only a quarter of 18-24 year old black men were enrolled in college. But one Oakland foundation is trying to make this a thing of the p...
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 04:54
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 05:10
- Purchases: 1
In Washington D.C., more than a third of adults lack basic literacy skills. That's 20% higher than the national average. Emily Friedman sits in on ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2011
- Length: 04:01
In Washington D.C., more than a third of adults lack basic literacy skills. That's 20% higher than the national average. Emily Friedman sits in on ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2011
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
Youth Radio Programmer Taylor Griffin interviewed distinguished professor of Sociology at Georgetown University Dr. Michael Eric Dyson. Dr. Dyson w...
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 11:53
Mary Edith Bentley and five others were sentenced to 30 days in jail with for refusing to vacate their seats at Patterson's Drugstore lunch counter...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 18, 2011
- Length: 13:09
- Purchases: 1
High School is not an easy time of life. Minneapolis Edison students Breanna Koger and Jazzmin Keys collaborate to tell the world about it.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
How do educators make sure students don’t suffer for the way they talk?
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 28:57
