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Queen Mother Imakhu's rendition of the African American folktale about a group of mystical enslaved Africans who escaped their oppression by regain...
- Added: Feb 05, 2022
- Length: 08:35
Crystal Chandler finds the perfect memento of her grandfather, a former Seventh Day Adventist pastor, to take with her when she moves to New York.
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 18:26
S. A. Cosby is a novelist who lives in Virginia.
- Added: Aug 12, 2021
- Length: 13:15
Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 27:58
- Purchases: 1
An hour-long radio special available to all public radio stations. This special program features selected portions of the Through The Cracks podcas...
Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, WITF, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 51:26
- Purchases: 21
We're talking to a brand new organization on this week's RDD. It's the Toledo Black Artist Coalition, a collection of artists, educators, activists...
- Added: Sep 22, 2020
- Length: 06:15
Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues with Marcus Jackson, a Cave Canem Fellow, who reads from his 2019 Ohioana Award-winning poetry b...
Bought by WNMU-FM and Raven Radio
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Lisa Bouler Daniels tells her biological brother Benjamin Chambers what it was like to learn about her birth mother after she passed away.
- Added: May 20, 2019
- Length: 02:49
A city councilwoman shares how her path to public service began with an act of intimidation.
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 05:18
- Purchases: 3
Build bridges to those who seem different. Topics include black history month, the Patriots Super Bowl loss, and challenges with family and friend ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 51:29
Dr. William Lynn Weaver remembers one Christmas when he was 18 years old in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WVBI-LP, and WEZU
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
This week, we examine the intersections between domestic violence, along with other forms of gendered violence, the courts, and the prison system. ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 29:40
America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a black m...
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 56:32
Our focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion between our friend Lucy and one of her fe...
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 28:10
Two fathers of children on the autistic spectrum talk about the concerns they have for their sons — two young black men growing up with autism.
- Added: Jul 18, 2016
- Length: 02:57
Radio Curious visits with Lacey Schwartz, director and producer of “Little White Lie,” a documentary about her experiences growing up as a white Je...
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Every October, over 30 cyclists from the New Orleans area embark on a three-day bike ride to the Louisiana State Penitentiary. The “NOLA to Angola”...
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 04:53
Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster talk commitment, reflection, and unconscious racism.
- Added: Nov 17, 2013
- Length: 24:20
My Choice My Voice teen talks about his transformation from a "troubled kid" to a high school graduate headed to college. Meanwhile, we hear his re...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 12:37
- Purchases: 1
Talana Banks and her brother, Willie, talk with their mother, Chief Warrant Officer Felicia Banks, about her deployment to Iraq in 2005 and their l...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 1
Charlie Morris remembers his brother's death in 1939, with his cousin Sylvester Lewis.
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 01:46
- Purchases: 2
Are African-American parents that choose unique or African-sounding names putting their children at a disadvantage? Is society unduly prejudiced ag...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 10, 2010
- Length: 10:22
- Purchases: 1
Kwanzaa is known as a pseudo-holiday, but when Melonyce McAfee and her family tried out, back in the early 90s, it turned out to be more meaningful...
Bought by WSLR, WJAB, WTIP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 5
Fifty hours a week, at the University of Washington Medical Center ER, Crystal Patterson is so busy that she barely has time to go to the bathroom....
- Added: Jul 30, 2008
- Length: 08:55
Reflections on My Father
- Added: Jun 16, 2008
- Length: 12:54
