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Patricia Smith, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the 2018 winner of the coveted Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, is now the 2021 Ruth...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television.
This piece was produced ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1969, Civil Rights leader Edwin Pratt was assassinated in his own home with his wife and daughter, Miriam, present. Miriam Pratt and her godmoth...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 02:37
The fascinating journey of delegates from Duluth, Minn. - the scene of a horrific triple lynching in 1920 and the first city to erect a prominent m...
Bought by WJAB
- Added: Dec 18, 2018
- Length: 47:57
- Purchases: 1
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
For all the ways we devise to pull communities apart, people find ways to rebuild.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
Gwen Moten remembers her childhood best friend, Denise McNair, who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WTJU
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 01:41
- Purchases: 2
Another authentic author's voice -- Jo Ivestor reads from her touching book, The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960's Deep South. Her true sto...
- Added: May 03, 2015
- Length: 01:40
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Runaway slaves often hid in self-made caves.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVMR, WORT, KVNF and more
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 25:12
- Purchases: 26
