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From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1947 — Community Activist, Retired
Interview by Maxwell Martin, Davon Hamlin, Michael Mosley
& Xzavier Rodgers
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 05:23
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1970 —Police Officer, City of Pittsburgh
Interview by Jordan Franklin, Lydell Price & Ramir Johnson
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 05:34
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1969 — President and CEO, Brothers and Sisters Emerging Interview by John Krall, Keylen Kenney & Xzavier Rodgers
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 05:39
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...
- Added: Dec 11, 2016
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 2
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
Growing up Ova East wasn't no joke.
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 02:54
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Hill District community leader Robert Bowden (b. 1946) reflects on his education, upbringing and life's work based on interviews conducted by stude...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Hip Hop legend Paradise Gray (b. 1964) reflects on becoming an activist and ushering in a new generation of hip-hop based on interviews by teens Da...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Leonard Brown, USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor, aA native of Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover community, Leonard Brown (b.1934) reflects o...
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 03:56
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Veteran and retired police sergeant Homer Craig (b.1939) reflects on family and community life in Hazelwood based on interviews conducted by teens...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Malik Bankston, Executive Director, The Kingsley Center (b. 1962), reflects on his college experience and his desire to better his community based ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Pastor and retired paratrooper Donald Turner (b. 1936) reflects on racial tension in his adolescent years and his faith in God based on interviews ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
“In a place that will never understand you are amazing, in a place that will put fire to you then say you are callous, they will burn you then say ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 31, 2015
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 1
Coach Roscoe Bryant and filmmaker Eugene Corr talk baseball, family values, and the importance of play.
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 28:01
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
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
It’s audition day for Beyond Idol. Contestants pace around a large waiting area at Laney College, practicing softly to themselves as they wait for ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 08:36
My Choice My Voice teens Wanya Ramsey and Frank D interview Black Kold Madina a.k.a. Kimberly Roberts about her award winning film "Trouble the Wat...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 06:43
Adrian Hawkins talks to his foster father, Horace Atwater Jr.
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
Throwback to January! Makalah interviews Bassist Reggie Richards while he was on tour with B.B. King.
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 07:02
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:15
New York State has the worst high school graduation rate in the country, according to a recent study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education....
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 1
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:08
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:52
Twenty-three-year-old Tierra Jackson talks to John Horan, the president of her high school, about what her life was like when they first met.
Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:07
- Purchases: 3
