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Nilajah Brown
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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'To flourish' means: To create an environment where you thrive.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Bresha Meadows, Domestic Violence, and the State
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we examine the intersections between domestic violence, along with other forms of gendered violence, the courts, and the prison system. ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
Listening to Ladies: Jessie Montgomery
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer Jessie Montgomery speaks about identity, patriotism, and music as a catalyst for physically bringing people together.

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:50
Voices of the Baltimore DOJ Report & The Intersections Of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Policing
From: Stefanie Mavronis
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In the months leading up to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division releasing its report on the Baltimore Police Department, I listene...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:38:20
Episode 19: Freedom
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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150 years ago, two girls crossed the Missouri River trying to escape a life of slavery. In the summer of 2016, Barry Jurgensen set out on a 500-mil...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nikkia the Kingpin
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
When Nikkia Sullivan was 13 she set out to become a Kingpin.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:45
Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson: Healthcare in 1894
From: My Account of It
Series: My Account of It
Caption: Dr. Halle Tanner Dillion Johnson was the first woman and the first black woman to practice medicine in Alabama. She was licensed in 1891.
Here's an account of healthcare in the rural Alabama. This account was written in 1894. Listen.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 06:39
Waking Up: A short play by Cori Thomas
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Lynette Freeman
A perfect choice for Breast Cancer Awareness month is Waking Up by Cori Thomas. It juxtaposes the experiences of an American urbanite's and an Afri...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 18:02
American Book Award-winning Poet Nikki Giovanni
From: New Letters on the Air
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The infamous poet Nikki Giovanni reads from her recent books, CHASING UTOPIA, BICYCLES, and ACOLYTES and discusses the influence of history, commun...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WMUU-LP, WNJR, and WABE


  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: William Watford and Deidre Robinson
From: StoryCorps
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Many families with LGBTQ members across generations are personally familiar with the “coming out” conversation. Deidra Robinson and her father, Wi...

  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:02
J. California Cooper: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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Short Description: We honor the life of the playwright and American Book Award-winning fiction writer J. California Cooper, who passed away Septemb...

Bought by WCPN and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
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
StoryCorps: Bonnie and Myra Brown
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Bonnie Brown (L) and Myra Brown (R)
Myra Brown speaks with her mother, Bonnie Mae Brown, who has an intellectual disability.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 3
Vocalo Concentrate: Abusive Relationships, Procastination, and Tomorrow Kings
From: Vocalo.org
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"Moving in with him was a mistake because shortly after he became physically violent..." Unfortunately these situations are not uncommon and Nayl...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 31:20
Carolyn Mosley - Teenage Daughter Murdered at High School
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Carolyn & Ortralla Mosley
In 2003, Carolyn's 15-year-old daughter, Ortralla, was brutally stabbed by her boyfriend in the hallway of Reagan High School in Austin, TX. Caroly...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2011
  • Length: 24:45
Still Singing the Blues: New Orleans and South Louisiana
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: Still Singing the Blues
Caption: Louisiana blues diva Carol Fran performs at her 76th birthday party., Credit: Photo by Barry Yeoman
Still Singing the Blues: New Orleans and South Louisiana features musicians in New Orleans and South Louisiana who continue to perform the blues—of...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KMUW, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KZMU Moab Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 11, 2010
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 25
Lady T: Remembering Teena Marie (Part A)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Teena Marie
A discussion with the late TEENA MARIE (March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010). She discusses her long career and her rich musical history. This interv...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2009
  • Length: 59:43
This I Believe - Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton believe in forgiveness, but from different perspectives.

Bought by WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 4
When I Grow Up...
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
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When I grow up I want to be a Cosmotologist

  • Added: Apr 27, 2009
  • Length: 01:22
A mother's interview
From: Nurudeen Titilope
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:49
Ruby Elzy: Black Diva of the Thirties
From: Boyce Lancaster
Caption: Ruby Elzy, 1937
Ruby Elzy was one of George Gershwin's hand picked leads for the original production of Porgy and Bess. Hailing from the small Mississippi town of...

Bought by KMUN, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WNMU-FM, KHNS, WCQS and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 25
Journal by KeeKey Itson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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Her fifth year in the competition, KeeKey says this piece is about the love of writing, from the perspective of a multi-racial girl (note: in Engli...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:34
Angelique Kidjo - The Bells At Dawn
From: Rob Mason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tony Visconti and Santana discuss the making of Angelique Kidjo's Djin Djin.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 56:33
We Are Strong Women
From: Julia Applegate
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interviews with HIV+ Women

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and KUGS Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 08, 2006
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 4
School Front Office
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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You're going to the Principal's office. But don't worry. There's a nice lady down there

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KSJD, PRX Remix, KCUR, and KUHB


  • Added: Jan 06, 2004
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 5