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Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 27:28
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 26:25
Elisheva and Amaris,
mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 26:51
Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way ...
- Added: May 07, 2016
- Length: 27:49
A West African folktale in which dishonesty is revealed through a dance competition.
- Added: Apr 01, 2016
- Length: 03:19
Live Art,
sponsored for the past three years by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kin...
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 27:38
Character Development's first episode features Jenny Halpin, director of the OWRC, and Jacob Kovacs, the OWRC's operations specialist. They reflect...
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 20:32
Linguists say that by the end of the century, 80% of all world languages will fall out of use. The spread of global languages like English and Span...
Bought by KALW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 05:28
- Purchases: 2
Aristotle said it best: “Nature abhors a vacuum.” Whenever there is a void in our lives we fill it, consciously or otherwise. Too often, people tr...
- Added: Oct 23, 2015
- Length: 26:45
Live Art,sponsored the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, is the only program of its kind in the country, or the world for t...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 24:21
Gabby Saechao was in her first year of college when she heard those two dreaded words: “You’re pregnant.”
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 1
I hate high fives and have only tried to high five one person as an adult. It was Denzel Washington. He wasn't really into it.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 06:16
This is the fastest moving real estate on the entire East Coast, and behind the sandy shores of these Virginia Barrier Islands is the purest ocean...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 27:16
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 27:33
Across the US, fewer than half of all public schools have a nurse available to kids all day, every day, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Founda...
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 05:18
Sixteen year old Ifrah Abshir had a rocky start with computer science, but she eventually fell in love with it. The tech industry has been trying t...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 05:33
The first Simmer episode features an interview with Malawi Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and songwriter Dr. Jack Allison and an investigation of t...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
"The Rainbow or the Stick?: Teaching and Discipline Across Cultures" features interviews with Renee Owen, director of the Rainbow Mountain Childre...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
The third Simmer episode features the first part of the documentary "Telling Our Own Stories" introduced by anecdotes about democracy from Seidl's ...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
The final episode in the Simmer series combines interview with El Salvadorian immigrants in Asheville, NC, cultural reflections from Robert Kohls' ...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Added: Nov 15, 2014
- Length: 04:24
- Purchases: 1
Art teacher and glass sculptor Rolanda Scott was first diagnosed with breast cancer years ago, but she kept teaching and for the longest while surv...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 28:20
Sometimes art can ease your pain, maybe even save your life. And the medium you started working in sometimes becomes another form all together.
Rol...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 25:30
Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe is a sound rich special that includes original interviews, clips, music, and new skits with many of the orig...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 55:05
- Purchases: 1
The Chicano movement changed California forever in the 1960s and 70s, and its legacy continues in the form of a Sacramento arts center for kids of ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2014
- Length: 04:51
