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Outdoor Afro explores Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
Artist turns trash cans into public art in Richmond and Oakland
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Rosie the Riveter smiles out from the side of a trashcan decorated by Daud Abdullah in front of Richmond’s City Hall., Credit: Sukey Lewis
Mosaic artist Daud Abdullah up-cycles pieces of trashed pottery, tile, mirror, and glass to make public art on garbage cans in Oakland and Richmond.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
This is Home: Journalism comes to the stage
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: RAW Talent poets in This is Home, Credit: Julia B. Chan/CIR
Donte Clark stands in the middle of a dimly lit stage. A projected photo of a dilapidated apartment building flickers on the wall behind him. In th...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 12:42
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
How Rudy Corpuz is trying to save the ‘Hood
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Rudy Corpuz, Jr. (center) leads a Silence to Violence march down Market Street on September 4, 2014., Credit: Anna Kolhede
In the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, at 1038 Howard Street, sits the United Playaz headquarters. United Playaz is an homegrown org...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 18:06
What's Next In Ferguson, MO? - One Degree of Separation
From: Nick Jaworski
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What's Next in Ferguson, MO? After the shooting of Michael Brown, many are left wondering what are the best ways to move forward. Nick Jaworski ta...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:23
Freedom - From Civil War to Civil Rights
From: Sidewalk Radio
Series: Sidewalk Radio with Gene Kansas
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Freedom is a very large and very important concept. Our country is built on it. Our civic and personal identity tied to it. Our physical landscape ...

  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:28
Robin Steinberg on Conversations with Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Robin Steinberg is founder and executive director of The Bronx Defenders, which represents people in the criminal and civil courts who can't afford...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:47
Sights & Sounds of Bayview: James Martin mentors Bayview's fathers
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Sights & Sounds of Bayview
Caption: Bayview's James Martin , Credit: R.J. Lozada
Deafening gunshots rang out just as James Martin arrived home. Troubled by the news of a 17-year-old young man dying in front of his house, he did ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
Richmond inmate program bridging gap between prisoners and the outside
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
With one of the highest crime rates in the country, Richmond, California, is a regular on the evening news. Zoom out to just California and that c...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
Preaching Healthy Living in African-American Churches
From: Scott Goldberg
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Diabetes among African-American adults has reached epidemic proportions. Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls -- an innovative public health program in Ba...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 2
Detroit Census Challenge
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
Caption: Hard to Count: The Barbara in Southwest Detroit
Imagine trying to prove that thousands of people exist, when you have no idea who they are. That’s the dilemma facing officials who think their co...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 1
Does Race Matter? A GVSU Panel debates
From: Kristen Balagtas
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Five experts discuss race relations in the U.S.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2008
  • Length: 03:00
Crimes Motivated by Hate
From: NYCity News Service
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The recent rise in hate crimes in New York City.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2007
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
Young & Exonerated
From: National Black Programming Consortium
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Shareef Cousin was wrongly convicted and sent to death row for over a decade.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and KTNA


  • Added: Mar 16, 2007
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 3
Making History in Massachusetts: Governor Deval Patrick, From the South Side to the State House
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
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A profile of Governor Deval Patrick, his history making election and his place in the new politics of race nationally.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WCPN, KUT-HD, WFIU, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Going on Again: Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Special
From: Tres Hombres Productions
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This new music-intensive one-hour special features the Dirty Dozen Brass Band?s unique tribute to their New Orleans home on the one-year anniversar...

Bought by KMUW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRPS, KALW, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2006
  • Length: 59:12
  • Purchases: 18
Black Tension
From: Hana Baba
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A look at the sometimes tension-filled relationship between African immigrants and Black Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KISU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 10
Destroy It To Save It
From: Richard Paul
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A trip back to a neighborhood the Supreme Court ordered destroyed

Bought by WETA, BSR Radio, and KVMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2005
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Powdered Eggs and Spam
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A 44-year-old disabled man is confined to a nursing home for ten years while he hunts for affordable housing.

Bought by KPFA


  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 08:41
  • Purchases: 1