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StoryCorps Griot: Alexander Landau and Nina Askew
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Alexander Landau spoke with his friend, Nina Askew, about the support they’ve given each other after both experienced violent arrests from Colorado...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
Miss Juneteenth
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:19
A Huey P. Newton Story
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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One of the most distinctive voices in civil rights history re-emerges to tell his own story.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 24
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Clark and Ron Gibson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Mary Clark came to StoryCorps with her friend, Ron Gibson, to talk about the complicated history of their relationship, and where they are now.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Myeshia Oates and Derek Bart
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Myeshia Oates and Derek Bart at their StoryCorps interview in Santa Clarita, CA on August 23, 2021.
Nearly 30 years after surviving a house fire as a kid, Myeshia Oates reunites with the Los Angeles County firefighter who saved her life, Derek Bart.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
Adjoa Andoh offers advice to a young artist
From: Anne Hoffman
Series: Off Mic from Philly Audio Diaries
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On today’s show we partnered with a young artist named Summer Blake, studying film & television at Drexel University. Summer had the opportunity ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 19:43
In Real Life
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A hilarious and harrowing account of an actor's journey.

Bought by KMUN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 22
The Lower Flight of Sparrows
From: Ralph Patterson
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A lonely, guarded black man falls into a relationship with a Latina who is desperate to leave the home in which she is made to feel inferior. Regin...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 08:45
GN_6.47_ Tutus in the Hood
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Ballerina Aesha Ash is on a mission, to help change the often demoralizing, objectified images of African-American women, and she’s doing it, in a ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
The Past American Voice of Playwright August Wilson
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR revisits this program with the late August Wilson. FENCES, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winnin...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WDCB, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Master Harold... and the Boys
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A story of friendship and racism in apartheid-era South Africa.

Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFCF FM, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 34
Fabulation
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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From Lynn Nottage, the story of one woman’s rise from rags to riches … and back again.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KALW and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 19
Best of the Best 2020: Of Bodies & Minds
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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This hour features three intimate stories that grapple with the messiness and the triumph of existing as a person, from the outside body to the ins...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 36
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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"Something better is always at the horizon." - Lynn Nottage

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KCRW, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 19
Dr. Hassan Tetteh: Change Means Growth
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, Credit: Shefik
Change - Dr. Hassan Tetteh is a board-certified surgeon specializing in thoracic surgery, critical care, heart and lung transplantation, research a...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 01:27
BURDEN -- Andrew Heckler and Robbie Brenner Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Andrew Heckler and Robbie Brenner talk metaphors, obligation, and looking for the hole.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2020
  • Length: 19:21
I Remember What Was Whispered in my Ear
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Whatever you call 'God' whispers something in your ear right before you take your first breath.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Elevator
From: Michelle Owusu
Caption: The Elevator - An Audio Drama
The Elevator is an infectious love story with a twist. Working for the same company, Chase and Hilda are star-crossed lovers trapped in a broken el...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2019
  • Length: 39:39
Poetic Justice (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state-- ...

Bought by WSGE, KUHF, Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, and KXCV


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Poetic Justice (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state--...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KMUN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KLCC, KUHF and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 15
Indiana Play Explores Health Inequity For African American Women
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Actors, community members and researchers joined a talk-back after the performance of One Blood., Credit: JILL SHERIDAN/IPB NEWS
African American women in Indiana face disparities in healthcare and health outcomes. They are more likely to die during or after childbirth then w...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 1
S1 E1 Recognition
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Ben Lerman, an emergency medicine physician, describes how his ability to empathize with his patients deteriorated throughout his medical training,...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:31
Snap 1011: Snap LIVE! At The Paramount, 4/11/2019
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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Snap LIVE! At The Paramount featuring Glynn Washington, Don Reed and Joyce Lee.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
Neat
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A solo performance from a master storyteller.

Bought by KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, WNJR, WCPN, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 17
Living Planet 09/28/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: What happens when our water is contaminated, and who protects it? We meet the people cleaning our beaches, protecting our d...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMUN, KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 27, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4