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Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: Jul 28, 2022
- Length: 24:10
From: KPVU
"PEACE BE STILL: COMMEMORATING THE 50 ANNIVERSARY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI'S ALBUM TRUTH IS ON ITS WAY"
IS AN AUDIO DOCUMENTARY
THAT DELVES INTO HER POE...
- Added: Feb 14, 2022
- Length: 57:42
In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 12:18
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.
Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media and more
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 37
Revolution - Sipho Gumbo, the creator of Yangu Beauty, sought out a leading expert in skincare chemistry to help transform her authentic recipes in...
- Added: Jul 16, 2020
- Length: 04:24
The final episode of this series. Spoon and Matthew perform an excerpt from a play by Spoon. Spoon and his brother Abe talk about their dad, Matthe...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
Spoon talks about his love for Star Trek and the day his TV was taken from him. Matthew visits a Star Trek fan club.
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
Episode 2. Spoon talks about a dog rescue program that took place inside Lancaster State Prison. He talked to Common the rapper, Matthew visits a s...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
First episode. Spoon talks about growing up in the desert, reads a poem about maggots and a pig, and Matthew visits his parents.
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
Just about every place has a local hero, a hometown kid who grew up to make their mark on the world. In Yellow Springs, Ohio, one hometown hero mad...
- Added: Jan 03, 2019
- Length: 29:31
James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...
- Added: Jun 07, 2018
- Length: 24:54
A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 24:49
We tend to remember Maya Angelou for her activism in the United States. But a recent tribute at James Madison University showed her poetry’s global...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 03:12
- Purchases: 3
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Before becoming the first African American on The Supreme Court, Marshall risked his life in ...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
We sat with Reginald Dwayne Betts and listened as he shared his own story of incarceration and his ongoing process of becoming a writer and poet.
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 12:41
- Purchases: 2
Since 1996, the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) has organized annual exhibits and led poetry workshop with inmates at Michigan's correctional f...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 11:25
Shaun Moore-Bey is a poet, activist, and regular on the Detroit spoken-word circuit. He is working to be a cultural force for his community.
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 06:21
- Purchases: 2
Poet Cara Benson leads a powerful writing workshop at the Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility in Saratoga County, New York. We listen in as a group ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 21:03
- Purchases: 2
Patrick Mathieu is a New York city based artist who majored in dance at City College of New York and had a successful career as a performer. Then, ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 1
Judith has taught poetry in prisons across the United States and intensively at San Quentin and other California prisons through Arts-in-Correction...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 07:27
Poet, publisher, editor, and founder of Broadside Press. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914 in Washington, D.C., but moved to Detroit in 1920 ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 13:42
- Purchases: 1
We asked poet Buzz Alexander of University of Michigan's Prison Creative Art Project to record a poetry workshop for us.
Prison Poetry Workshop ha...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century an...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 09:21
- Purchases: 3
