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StoryCorps Griot: Fred Davie and Robert Sanchez

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Fred Davie (left) and Robert Sanchez (right)

A social worker who now helps others who are making the transition from prison talks with his mentor about their first meeting inside Sing Sing pri...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and Public Radio for All

Added: Dec 05, 2016
Length: 03:06
Purchases: 3

Greg Palast on Voter Suppression, and Buying Democracy

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Greg Palast, is an investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker. His new film, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: a Tale of Billionaires and Ba...

Added: Oct 31, 2016
Length: 29:00

Life of the Law #90: Kids Doing Life

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

The US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without...

Bought by KRZA

Added: Aug 23, 2016
Length: 29:43
Purchases: 1

Police Policies and Black Lives Matter

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Radio Curious discusses police misconduct, accountability and the Black Lives Matter movement with Dr. Joseph Marshall, a member of the San Francis...

Bought by KVSC

Added: Aug 23, 2016
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 1

Mapping the KKK (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-An animated, online map shows for the first time just how the Ku Klux Klan spread rapidly to all 50 states between 1915 and 1940. -Tracing the “e...

Bought by WJCT, WRFA-LP, WFHB, WJCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Added: Aug 19, 2016
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 9

StoryCorps Griot: Anthony Merkerson and Charles Jones

From: StoryCorps

Caption: Anthony Merkerson (left) and Charles Jones

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

#SayHerName: Black Love in Action

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jamison and Yuvette at the BART Station going to Disney on Ice, Credit: Photo provided by Jamison Robinson

Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson’s brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the poli...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR

Added: Jun 30, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

A Picture Emerges

From: Josh Swartz

This story explores Michelle Obama's early life, expectations surrounding her ascendency as First Lady, and the impact she will leave on the office...

Bought by WWNO, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WHCP-LP Cambridge, WTJU, CI Dolphin Radio and more

Added: Mar 21, 2016
Length: 06:33
Purchases: 12

TRAPPED -- Dawn Porter Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Dawn Porter, San Francisco, CA, 3/9/16, Credit: Andrea Chase

Dawn Porter talks checking her bias, the separation of church and state, and the gods of documentary filmmaking.

Bought by XRAY.fm

Added: Mar 18, 2016
Length: 21:38
Purchases: 1

Larry Tye, author of "Satchel"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Host Bob Kustra talks with Tye about his book about the baseball legend, Satchel Paige.

Added: Mar 18, 2016
Length: 29:30

I Heart Obama

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

In his nearly two terms as president, Barack Obama has solidified his status, as something black people haven’t had for fifty years: a folk hero.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 10, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

2016 Features Editor of THE NATION Kai Wright

From: New Letters on the Air

The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR

Added: Feb 25, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

LAST DAY OF FREEDOM -- Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman, San Francisco, CA 12/28/15, Credit: Andrea Chase

Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman talk distance, authenticity, and having a free hand.

Added: Jan 11, 2016
Length: 29:56

THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION -- Stanley Nelson Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Stanley Nelson, San Francisco, CA 10/1/15, Credit: Andrea Chase

Stanley Nelson talks history, irony, and delivering the unexpected.

Added: Oct 03, 2015
Length: 15:03

LIVE LAW 5: One Confederate Flag

From: LIVE LAW

In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jul 07, 2015
Length: 11:48
Purchases: 1

LIVE LAW 1: Stupid Motions

From: LIVE LAW

Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 25, 2015
Length: 17:08
Purchases: 1

"F.B. Eyes: How J.Edgar Hoover ‘s Ghost Readers Framed African-American LIterature"

From: Dred-Scott Keyes

The Harlem Renaissance Era of the 20’s, the "New Negroes" who had begun to express themselves in a variety of cultural and social spheres- W.E.B. ...

Added: Unknown
Length: 01:00:18

#1509- The New Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander

From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]

This week we take the full hour for David Dault's in-depth interview with Michelle Alexander, author of the groundbreaking 2010 book, The New Jim C...

Bought by WCPN

Added: Apr 21, 2015
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Selma Slights More than LBJ

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

There’s been a lot of controversy over the movie Selma and the Academy Awards. Selma is rightfully centered on Dr. King, and has been rightfully cr...

Bought by KPVL

Added: Feb 20, 2015
Length: 02:30
Purchases: 1

Congressman Charles Rangel on Conversations With Allan Wolper

From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG

Charles Rangel: a legacy interview. He has been a congressman representing Harlem and the Bronx for more than 43 years. Congressman Rangel gained n...

Bought by WYAP

Added: Jan 06, 2015
Length: 30:00
Purchases: 1

Ferguson is Everywhere

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

The protests carry on and for now, as the protestors say, Ferguson is everywhere — not just in the news, but in our institutions, our interactions,...

Bought by WDSE

Added: Dec 09, 2014
Length: 58:37
Purchases: 1

Reentry: Learning to be a father after spending half a lifetime in prison

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: William and Brianna Bennett, Credit: William Bennett

More than 2.7 million minors in America live with a parent in prison. Studies show that the majority of incarcerated parents reside over 100 miles ...

Added: Nov 28, 2014
Length: 06:18

TRUE SON -- Kevin Gordon Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Kevin Gordon, San Francisco, CA 6/6/14, Credit: Andrea Chase

Kevin Gordon talks risk, impatience, and why form must follow function.

Added: Oct 16, 2014
Length: 12:49

Stokely Carmichael and Black Power

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Stokely Carmichael was a down-home organizer and radical off-beat visionary of racial equality in America 50 years ago, a quicksilver activist, the...

Bought by WRPI