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Gwen Moten remembers her childhood best friend, Denise McNair, who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WTJU
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 01:41
- Purchases: 2
On this episode of Making It Work we will chat with Susan Mernit about her latest non-profit organization, Hack the Hood, and how they are making a...
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 24:25
Ceyela, age seventeen, struggles to understand how her mom's mental illness has affected their relationship.
- Added: May 30, 2015
- Length: 10:00
Radio Curious visits with Dr. Joseph Marshall, co-founder of Alive and Free, a community violence prevention effort for at-risk inner city youth to...
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Six students from one Seattle high school have died from suicide or murder this year. Why hasn't this tragedy been front-page news? Is it because a...
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 35:26
Since last August, the cultural conversation has centered on #blacklivesmatter, Ferguson and the death of Eric Garner. But it’s less common to hear...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 02:43
Beginning next fall, all San Francisco public schools will offer a class called Ethnic Studies. It’s a look at American history and culture from th...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
Blunt discusses cultural insensitivity in the digital age.
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 01:01:26
- Purchases: 1
What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?
Consider Claudette Colvin. She was a 15-year-old girl in the segregated city of...
Bought by KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 09:19
- Purchases: 5
Just a few years ago, 18-year-old Noah McQueen was struggling in school, had been arrested multiple times, and spent time in juvenile detention. Bu...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
A common topic among high schoolers when discussing the college application process and admittance is race. Listen to hear the opinions on affirmat...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 05:07
Emmanuel Johnson is a senior at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C. As a part of WUNC's Youth Radio Project, he reports on a changing neighborhoo...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 1
Malik Barrios, an 14 year old from Data High School and is a member of the New Mexico Youth Alliance. He was one of the speakers at the Martin Luth...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WEZU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 01:08
- Purchases: 4
It?s our last podcast of the summer, and we?re going out with two pieces about self-expression. DaeDae Williams shares a powerful poem about the c...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 07:52
Officer Denise Cookie Boulden is a Detective for the Seattle Police Department.
She’s well known for her work with youth and the elderly.
Detecti...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 06:31
Aaron Sims reports on the differences and discrimination within the black community.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 03:59
Diamen, Rosa and Javon interview Nate Brown (Family Resources) and Jason Harris, Taymar Fields, Tramell Perry and Aaqila Youngblood (public housing...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 03:16
In 1964, more than 700 students from around the country joined organizers and locals in Mississippi to demand rights for black voters. Fifty years ...
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 06:43
Interview Dr. Harold Bailey, President of the Albuquerque Chapter of the NAACP. We spoke to Dr. Bailey at the recent #BlackLivesMatter Candlelight ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2015
- Length: 04:58
Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, discusses the campaign, its origins, and why it’s so important.
- Added: Jan 11, 2015
- Length: 12:15
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
Going off to college seems like the American dream for first-generation, low-income students. But not if they drop out with loads of debt a few yea...
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 03:52
Seventeen years after Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank at gunpoint, he came to StoryCorps...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 2
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
At some point or another we've all known a person that's really into shoes, but have you ever met a "sneakerhead"? Produced at Vocalo (90.7 FM Chic...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 05:18
