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Infant mortality rates in Michigan are better than they used to be, but still not good enough.
Seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan w...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 51:01
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
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 14:46
THE DROP OUT DILEMMA IS SPECIAL CONVERSATION ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN THE ROCHESTER AREA. THE WXXI NEWS TEAM HAS BEEN TAKING AN IN-DEPT...
Bought by NPR Illinois
- Added: Aug 22, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
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
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
To be black and male in America carries with it a certain baggage. Two out of three black male students in Rochester are failing to graduate. "Need...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 27:10
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
In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...
Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 27
We remember Hubert Sumlin, legendary guitarist and long-time sideman for Howlin' Wolf, passed away at the age of 80 on December 4, 2011.
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 02:30
This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...
Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more
- Added: Sep 26, 2009
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 40
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
The NY City Draft Riots & The Battle of Ft. Wagner - July 1863
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
John Brown, Frederick Douglass & Harper's Ferry
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Catherine "Katie" Ferguson, the Jennings Family, and the Battle for Full First-Class Citizenship (1830-1854)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Ruggles, Douglass and the Rise of the Abolitionist and Back to Africa Movements, & the Underground Railroad (1830-1854)
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
The Rise of the Black Church, the Black Press and the Fight for Education (1783-1830)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Huddy and Tye (1775-1783)
Bought by WNYC
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
More Revolts, "Conspiracies," and Runaways (1712-1775)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Slave revolts & resistance: New England / New York 1712, etc.
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Sussana Anthony Roberts, Solomon Pieters, and the Push for Personal and Economic Freedom (1664-1712)
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Eleven Africans and the Survival of the New Netherlands Colony (1624-1664)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Juan "Jan" Rodrigues, the First Free African in the Hudson Valley (1612-1614)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Preview/Overview: (1624-1863)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
This is an in depth look at one of the many charter schools opening this fall in New Orleans
- Added: Sep 04, 2007
- Length: 12:59
A panel of three African-Americans reflect on their greatest challenges and successes in resolving racial conflict throughout their lives.
Bought by KUAC, Radio Catskill, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more
- Added: Dec 05, 2005
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 15
