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5th graders from DC's Watkins Elementary discuss - and sing about - Kwame Alexander's poetic story of brothers and basketball "The Crossover." LA L...
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 22:44
In this podcast, Dr. John Hope Franklin speaks on the exploitation of young African Americans in college athletics. Franklin was one of the most re...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 06:34
Join the team onThe Pine as they visit with Ted Ginn, Executive Director of the Ginn Academy.
- Added: Jun 27, 2015
- Length: 18:12
Summer is the time for baseball all over the country, and in Minnesota that’s no different. The history of baseball in Minnesota, however, has inc...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 29:56
Award-winning reporter and author Kevin Cook reads from his lively, anecdotal new book, The Dad Report: Fathers, Sons, and Baseball Families. Here,...
- Added: Jun 07, 2015
- Length: 01:40
One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball’s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pasti...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 21:01
- Purchases: 1
Frank Scott remembers his father, Wendell Scott, who recently became the first African American driver in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
At the end of a narrow alley off of International Boulevard, through the open doorway of El ColectíVelo bike shop, I’m greeted by a young boy.
“R....
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 06:25
If you walk through D.C.'s Columbia Heights neighborhood on any given weekday afternoon, chances are you'll see them — a scrum of guys hunched over...
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 04:20
The All Star Baseball game this month is a perfect opportunity to introduce you to a new opera about a great Negro League Baseball Player.
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 06:35
From the book, "For The Love Of Baseball: A Celebration Of The Game That Connects Us All," co-editor Lee Gutkind reads from his chapter. Just one o...
Bought by WSLR
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
The first African-American man to win the heavyweight boxing title.
- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 3
Football star Michael Sam made a bit of Black history when he came out as gay this month. To do that ahead of the NFL draft took a lot of courage.
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis became the embodiment of American unity during WWII. He walked a fine line to serve the goals of Victory ab...
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
Bill Siegel talks politics, sports, and making history.
- Added: Oct 23, 2013
- Length: 23:17
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on discrimination at Muirfield, the golf club hosting the 2013 British Open.
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 02:30
During past two decades, more and more people in the U.S. are riding bicycles. One of the fastest growing groups are cyclists of color. And with or...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 04, 2013
- Length: 03:18
- Purchases: 1
This week our writers grapple with the colors that separate, whether black, brown, or white. Stories by Tyler Thompson, Leslie Epps, and Jennifer M...
- Added: Aug 25, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Equal Opportunity in Education Act, commonly referred to as Title IX. Hosts Bev Smith and William Hosea...
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 01:00:26
A collection of sounds and voices from William Devine Golf course, one of America's oldest public courses, located in inner-city Boston in the hear...
- Added: May 16, 2012
- Length: 01:55
While most kids are playing video games on televisions, cell phones and computers, one Minneapolis youth is focused on a board game that is centuri...
Bought by KSRQ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 3
America’s first African-American heavyweight boxing
champion Jack Johnson challenges auto-racing champ
Barney Oldfield... on the racetrack in pre-W...
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
Two undefeated heavyweight boxing
champions capture the imagination of a polarized
America on March 8, 1971.
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
Memorialized in a Bob Dylan song and an Academy Award nominated Denzel Washington film, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a successful prize fighter, wh...
Bought by WEZU, WOUB, NPR Illinois, RadioFreePalmer, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more
- Added: Dec 28, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 28
Russell Simmons: Super Rich and Dr. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter: Eye of the Hurricane this week on Prime Time Radio.
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 59:56
- Purchases: 1
