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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...
Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
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
Singer Jacqui Sutton talks about the long road to a new sound -- Frontier Jazz -- as well as her band and some of the songs on her new album.
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 05:15
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 15:03
This week's stories are about assumptions-- and we all know what happens when people make them. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Jim Frey, and Patrice Mel...
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:24
Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
In 1993, Toni Morrison became only the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joanne Gabbin, executive director of the Furiou...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 02:39
Nationally renowned writers, singers, and poets pay tribute to Toni Morrison, whose works have earned her the highest accolades in literature and e...
Bought by WJCT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KWMR
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 5
Infant mortality rates in Michigan are better than they used to be, but still not good enough.
Seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan w...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 51:01
Before Daphne Maxwell Reid appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, she was a number of "firsts," including the first African American homecoming q...
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
"Aunt Viv" from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air shares stories from her career, and a chef talks about what it takes to run a restaurant.
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
Zora was one of the shining lights of the Harlem Renaissance as a writer of novels, short stories, essays, articles, plays, folklore collections, a...
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 02:21
- Added: Aug 27, 2012
- Length: 13:14
- Purchases: 1
In this show we talk to a guy who did not think of himself as an obvious candidate for diversity training (he survived and thrived). Then there's t...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 12:01
On a recent visit to Wisconsin, Maya Soetoro-Ng explains why her brother is America's first feminist president.
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 02:03
Renowned jazz musician Sam Miltich interviews Charmin Michelle about her music. Host Maddi Frick also brings us a feature on Bradfest 2012 in Two H...
- Added: Aug 08, 2012
- Length: 59:09
- Purchases: 2
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
Bess Kargman talks balance, commitment, and synchronicity.
- Added: Jun 07, 2012
- Length: 26:24
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 01:58:05
Director Brad Bosley said he's completely surprised by the controversy surrounding his Pepsi Super Bowl commercial that has confused Bill O'Reilly ...
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 02:31
Models are the beautiful people--their images fill magazines, billboards and television screens. Beauty is subjective, but deciding which images se...
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 04:35
Vanessa and Helen Williams share a wealth of motherly wisdom just in time for Mother's Day then, a former models amazing recovery and hilarious str...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 1
