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Lauren K. Alleyne lived the first part of her life in Trinidad and then moved to America at 18 and has been there since. Her poems explore what it’...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCHW, KHEN-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Lauren K. Alleyne lived the first part of her life in Trinidad and then moved to America at 18 and has been there since. Her poems explore what it’...

Bought by KRDP, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WRMU, WFHB and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Lauren K. Alleyne lived the first part of her life in Trinidad and then moved to America at 18 and has been there since. Her poems explore what it’...

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Lauren K. Alleyne lived the first part of her life in Trinidad and then moved to America at 18 and has been there since. Her poems explore what it’...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KXCV


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
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Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, the poet Kwame Dawes is the editor of Nebraska's literary magazine, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, and the 2021 successor t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Renowned author Yaa Gyasi, whose novel Homegoing won the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book and the Pen/Hemingwa...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:21:49
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In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.

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


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
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We remember the Nobel Prize-winning South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who passed away on July 13, 2014. In this 1994 interview with former NEW ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: Michael Lionstar
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: David Grant and family., Credit: Star Tribune
David Grant is a Twin Cities-based screenwriter and playwright. He's been commissioned by the Minnesota Historical Society, Mixed Blood Theater and...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Teju Cole
Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole is our idea of a post-imperial global mind in motion. His celebrated first novel, "Open City," is about a solita...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2