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The True Journey to Entrepreneurship with Guest Wayland and Yolanda Pierson
From: KMOJ-FM
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Come along with the Pierson's to share insight of true enterpreneurship.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2023
  • Length: 57:41
Toledo Excel
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Since it began in 1988, TOLEDO EXCEL, a scholarship incentive program at The University of Toledo, has been striving to prepare underrepresented st...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dream of Detroit
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Dream of Detroit combines community organizing with housing and land development to build a healthy community and empower a marginalized neighborho...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
"Randall Kennedy – Can You Say This Word?"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Best of the Best 2020: The Great Indoors
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, three winning stories of the 2020 Third Coast/RHDF Competition each paint a unique portrait of survival and hope in the time of co...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, Prairie Public, New England Public Media, WGBH Radio Boston, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
The Big Lift
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Carver Elementary students line up to begin the school day at the campus in San Francisco's Bayview district., Credit: Lee Romney / KALW
Meeting family needs in a city of widening wealth gaps is a big lift. Studies show that when parents are engaged in their kids’ education, it has a...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Lebronze and Arguster Davis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Lebronze and Arguster Davis at their StoryCorps interview in Birmingham on October 3, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Lebronze and Arguster Davis grew up on their family’s farm in Wetumpka, Alabama. As two of 17 siblings, they had little time for anything outside o...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 03:01
Anthony Clary: Of Love and Forgiveness, Part 2 (conclusion)
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The Clarys on their front porch., Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Anthony Clary grew up in the largest public housing project in Richmond, Virginia, a place called Blackwell. In its day it was notorious for the am...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2019
  • Length: 26:22
Social Workers Stand Up!
From: WHRV
Series: Another View
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What is your image of a social worker? Is it one of distrust, that the social worker's job is to disrupt your life by impacting your family or mean...

Bought by WNSB


  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Carlos Walton and Jim Saint Germain
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Carlos Walton (left) and Jim Saint Germain (right)
Jim Saint Germain and his former middle school dean discuss pivotal moments in their relationship and lessons Jim learned from his mentor.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 3
Jen Anderson and Jane Mitchell of The Reset Foundation, Creating an Alternative to America's Prisons
From: Arch Street Press
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Jen Anderson and Jane Mitchell discuss how they met and discovered a passion for changing America's approach to criminal justice, leading to their ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 45:32
StoryCorps Griot: Mario Loiseau and Mabou Loiseau
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mario Loiseau (L) and Mabou Loiseau (R)
Mario Loiseau talks with his 9-year-old daughter, Mabou, about why he works so hard to provide for her education.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:48
New report says outcomes for African-American kids in Michigan are among the worst in the country
From: Michigan Radio
Series: State of Opportunity
Caption: This chart represents scores for African-American child well-being. Michigan is all the way on the right, third worst in the nation., Credit: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Race for Results report
Our State of Opportunity team looks at many statistics and reports about child well-being in Michigan. Recently, the Annie E. Casey Foundation rele...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
AMERICAN PROMISE -- Michele Stephenson & Joe Brewster Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Joe Brewster & Michele Stephenson, San Francisco, CA 10/28/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster talk commitment, reflection, and unconscious racism.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2013
  • Length: 24:20
StoryCorps: Reginald Mason
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Reginald Mason remembers growing up in Harlem with his mother during the 1970s.

Bought by WDBM, WVBI-LP, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 4
The Walk to School
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
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The Walk to School is an audio documentary about a Minneapolis family’s decision to attend public school outside its immediate residential zone. Pr...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Wil and Olivia Smith
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Wil Smith tells his daughter, Olivia, about being a single dad in college.

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps NTI: Ayodeji Ogunniyi
From: StoryCorps
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Ayodeji Ogunniyi describes how the death of his father inspired him to become a teacher.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Earl and Ashley Reynolds
From: StoryCorps
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Earl Reynolds Jr. tells his daughter, Ashley, about meeting James Brown at his father's barbershop in Roanoke, Virginia.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WEZU, Delta College Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 4
Tales from the South 015 with Lawrence Hamilton
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
This I Believe - Geoffrey Canada
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Educator and social activist Geoffrey Canada says he believes all children can learn and succeed.

Bought by WEZU, WCSU-FM, WEZU, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 4
Moving up the Income Class: Crystal Patterson
From: KUOW
Series: Sound Focus
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Fifty hours a week, at the University of Washington Medical Center ER, Crystal Patterson is so busy that she barely has time to go to the bathroom....

  • Added: Jul 30, 2008
  • Length: 08:55