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Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
This episode (in French) focuses on the importance of work and perseverance. It features an interview with a seamstress apprentice named Honorine A...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 15:05
Caption: Yams simmering for fufu in Togo, West Africa, Credit: Carla Seidl
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
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As a researcher and teacher, Korina Jocson has observed and analyzed how students use poetry to make sense of their experiences. But how can educat...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 10:45
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IN THIS EDITION OF THE CUTTING EDGE, WE BRING YOU A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HISTORIAN ERIC FONER AND SYLVIAN DIOUF, AUTHOR OF “SLAVERY’S EXILES: THE STORY...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:56
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
Caption: Africa's first canopy ropewalk at Kakum National Park, Credit: Kelly Ramundo
Ghana has long been a special place for the African American diaspora. For many, "roots tourism" is a rite of passage. But in the early 90s, the We...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Dec 14, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Joshua Williams struggles every day paying for food and finding a place just to sleep. Listen to an American teenager who has been homeless.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:11
Caption: Teachings From Turtle Island
In this installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People, the first of ten programs being produced for Northern Community...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WGZS, KKWE Niijii Radio, and Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 57:17
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Melanie, Credit: MB
Melanie is a young woman of Suriname in South America who now lives in Holland and is becoming an icon and inspiration for those who want to change...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:54
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The Open World Foundation™ is about change, about you and the world. And there is a sense of urgency, an urgency for change. Almost everone on Eart...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 18:16
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In this first of a two-part series, Dred-Scott Keyes interviews winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Awards David W. Blight, author of "American Ora...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2012
  • Length: 56:00
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For the first time in state Senate history, a committee gathered in Sacramento this week to talk about a problem that they say has been ignored for...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
Caption: Back to School stamp, Credit: iStock photo
In multi-year classrooms, teachers work with the same children for two years or longer. The result, according to founder and coordinator of Explora...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 18:42
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A high school student and recent graduate detail their struggles staying in school and what pushed them to persevere.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 42:54
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Sondra Samuels of North Side Achievement Zone and Eric Mahmoud of Seed Academy and and Harvest Preparatory School discuss solutions and impact to t...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:07
Caption: The Monti American Graduate
The Monti - American Graduate Special is an hour of true stories from the front lines of North Carolina’s high school drop out crisis.

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cobi teaching some of her 200 orphans, Credit: Anton Foek.
Cobi is a Dutch nurse liiving and working in a South African township. She helps orphans getting over their Aids HIV stigma and against the violenc...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 10:38
Caption: On the Importance of Education!, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Temple Grandin is considered one of the 100 most influential people in the country. SQ Radio presents an interview with Temple Grandin at her home ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 24:56
Caption: San Juan River, Credit: Celestia Loeffler
Nuestro Río is a thirty-minute radio program that focuses on Hispano/Latino heritage in the American Southwest, especially the Colorado River and R...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
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Husseyin Baybasin is een Koerdische zakenman die, naar zeggen van zijn advocaat Mr. Adele van der Plas, al veertien jaar lang onschuldig in de Nede...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 06:37
Caption: Nicholson Baker
Part of "Whose Words These Are," our look at poetry in our time: first Christopher Lydon in conversation with novelist Nicholson Baker, whose novel...

Bought by KALW, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WEOS and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Watts Health Center, Credit: www.wattshealth.org
President Obama urged Americans to get tested for HIV this weekend. The Watts Health Center in South Los Angeles tried to encourage HIV screening b...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2009
  • Length: 02:28
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One hour doc. focusing on the life of America's second president

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
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Leaving Suriname as a young boy with dreams and hope for another life.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 19:21
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One hour doc. focusing on the life of America's second president

Bought by KUOW, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WSKG, and WPSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2008
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 5