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Stories about the joys - and challenges- of living at the intersection of Blackness and Queerness
- Added: May 31, 2024
- Length: 51:59
It is a cliché to say that the richest corporate media operate inside a bubble of their own making, but it's largely true. Today’s guests are breat...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
6 works, including SAINT-GEORGES: Violin Concerto in A, Op. 5, #2 (Mvt. 1 only) . Pilsen Radio Orchestra/Frantisek Preisler Jr.; Miroslav Vilimec, ...
- Added: May 27, 2024
- Length: 57:02
We follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned.
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 01:08:45
We hear Hazel become a mother of the newly coalesced global Environmental Justice movement and take EJ to the highest halls of power, while still c...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 01:03:18
We learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 58:02
We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:53
We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:27
In the wake of the police killing of Philando Castile, North Minneapolis native Geoffrey Lamar Wilson turned to music as an act of protest and reme...
- Added: Apr 08, 2024
- Length: 05:39
There have been fewer than 50 full face transplant recipients in the world. And up until 2019, there had been zero done for African-Americans. Toda...
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 50:00
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Alabama bluesman Sugar Harp plus Piedmont blues artist Gail Ceasar.
Bought by KDLG, KTRL, KMXT, KBRW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Jan 31, 2024
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 39
From: Generation Justice Admin
Generation Justice celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day! We read some impactful words from Dr. Bernice King, his daughter, regarding the trage...
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 04:14
Conchetta Brown and her daughter, Nidera Brown, discuss their close relationship in life and in death.
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...
Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...
Bought by KUHF
- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 1
George M. Johnson talks about their debut Young Adult memoir All Boys Aren't Blue, the support of their family, their love of Toni Morrison, and th...
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 15:31
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 58:57
Several youth describe their strategies and therapies for mental wellness. Powerful and helpful recovery stories for all ages.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
A compilation of Episodes 1 and 2 for stations desiring a 59 minute version.)
1) Youth experienced challenges on their mental health during the pa...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 1
Youth experienced challenges on their mental health during the pandemic that still continue to this day.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Oct 21, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Social activism by youth during and after the pandemic helped their mental wellness.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Oct 21, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Mary Johnson-Roy first came to StoryCorps in 2011, to speak with Oshea Israel, the man who murdered her son. 12 years later, they share the latest ...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Oct 13, 2023
- Length: 11:50
- Purchases: 2
In the annals of racist terrorism, few acts were more hideous or cowardly than the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama...
- Added: Sep 13, 2023
- Length: 34:47
In this episode, Emily speaks with author Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her recent novel Take My Hand, based on the 1973 case of the Relf sisters who ...
- Added: Aug 28, 2023
- Length: 40:06
Luz Kenyon tells her daughter, Anna Paloma Williams, about the unexpected start of their family and how she navigated raising mixed kids in America.
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 03:11
