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Born 1969 — Program Manager, Brothers and Sisters Emerging Interview by Jordan Franklin, Lydell Price & Ramir Johnson

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:19
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Born 1947 — Community Activist, Retired Interview by Maxwell Martin, Davon Hamlin, Michael Mosley & Xzavier Rodgers

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:23
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Born 1970 —Police Officer, City of Pittsburgh Interview by Jordan Franklin, Lydell Price & Ramir Johnson

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:34
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Born 1969 — President and CEO, Brothers and Sisters Emerging Interview by John Krall, Keylen Kenney & Xzavier Rodgers

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:39
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In 2010, Michael McIntosh’s son was incarcerated at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in the small town of Walnut Grove, Mississippi. On...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 32:55
Caption: The View from Room 205
"The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unflinching look at the intersection of poverty and education in this country. It ...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KICI Iowa City, WRIR, KUAF Public Radio, KISU and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 67
Caption: The Rodgers family from left: Nia, Kenya and Zion. Back: Derrick, Credit: Stella M. Chavez
Over the next five days, in a series called "The First Week," we’ll listen in on the conversations students, parents, educators and police officers...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 04:18
Caption: The Rodgers family from left: Nia, Kenya and Zion. Back: Derrick, Credit: Stella M. Chavez
Over the next five days, in a series called "The First Week," we’ll listen in on the conversations students, parents, educators and police officers...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 1
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PREVIEW THE HOUR NOW! http://www.prx.org/pieces/194893-the-view-from-room-205 "The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unf...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Dec 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
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David Grannum is a 16-year-old ballet dancer in Fall River, Massachusetts. He’s only been dancing ballet for four years but he’s caught the attenti...

Bought by HowSound and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 11, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Eliquewa Santiago says college makes her struggle with mental health even more difficult. (c) 2016 Taylor Epps
Mental health is an issue that rarely gets discussed in the black community. For college students of color the issue gets even more difficult.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2016
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Kecia Dennis teaches eighth grade at Richland Middle School, Credit: Christopher Connelly
In a KERA American Graduate series called "The First Week," we're listening in on conversations about race. We've heard from parents and students. ...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2016
  • Length: 04:12
Caption: Black Lives Matter protesters take over city hall in Columbus, OH., Credit: George Drake, Jr.
Black Lives Matter protesters take over a city council meeting to protest against police killings of blacks, and how Ty're King's death overlapped ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Monique W. Morris
Black girls make up for more than one-third of all girls with school related arrests. Yet, they comprise just 16-percent of female students.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Antonio McKinney
As an African-American and the son of a police officer in Shreveport, LA, Antonio McKinney offers a nuanced view of the relationship between Africa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2016
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Khiari Benson
Khiari Benson recalls coming to his mother's defense when a police officer attacked her. He was just five years old. "I didn't see the badge. I d...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2016
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Zavier Thompson is a 15-year-old activist and artists who uses his words to inspire and empower others. Interviewing him is Joshua Horton, a youth ...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:33
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Ebony Isis Booth is a poet in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She currently works as the Programs and Commumications Coordinator at the Harwood Arts Cente...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 08:24
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Dr. Finnie Coleman talks about what the Movement for Black Lives is really about, the history of police brutality, how he prepares his son to enter...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 18:06
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An emotional and poetic tour of a day in the life of a youth at Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 07:13
Caption: Alice and Ibukun Owolabi
Alice Mitchell and her 10-year-old brother, Ibukun, came to StoryCorps to talk for the first time about their mother who died just weeks after his ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
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New voter identification laws could sharply curb voter participation in N.C. and other states, says Duke University historian Gunther Peck.

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:14
Caption: Kelli Bowdy attends O.D. Wyatt High School in Fort Worth. She wants to be a nurse, Credit: Lara Solt
It’s crunch time for high school juniors to start figuring out what’s next after graduation. Kelli Bowdy already knows what she wants to do — she w...

  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 04:43
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Dr. Christopher Emdin, associate Professor of Math, Science and Technology at Teachers College of Columbia University) speaking about his new book,...

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  • Length: 01:00:03
Caption: On The Bus
The foot soldiers of the civil rights movement were shot, beaten, jailed, even murdered. Yet they kept on marching. Love for their community and fa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1