All Pieces for Eleanor Boudreau

 
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Despite the fact that millions of Americans are looking for work, 90 percent of trucking companies say they can’t find enough drivers. But the driv...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Every year, more than 10 million visitors come to Memphis, and spend more than three billion dollars, much of it on music-related tourism. But few ...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:58
Caption: Sid Selvidge, Credit: Archer Records
Sid Selvidge has died. He was a cultural voice in Memphis for more than five decades, and he helped start the Beale Street Caravan radio show, whic...

  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:09
Caption: The lights are dark and the music is loud at a 5:30 service at Hope Presbyterian Church called The Stirring.
One in three young Americans say they do NOT belong to any organized religion. That’s according to research by the Pew Forum; and that’s more than ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:47
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Changing the way teachers are paid is on the wish-list of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, school reformer Michelle Rhee, and Bill Gates. And as...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A rock-climbing wall was one of the attractions set up for the Achievement School District picnic in Frayser.
Doors opened at three state-run schools in Memphis this week. This is the first time Tennessee has stepped in and completely taken charge of the da...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:51
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Public transportation is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than driving a car, but in cities where it is widely used—like New York, Boston ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:52
Caption: The home of bluesman Memphis Slim, a historic site next to the Stax Museum. A partnership with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra plans to turn this house into a place where musicians can practice and record.
It has been more than 50 years since a small recording company moved into the old Capitol Movie theater on East McLemore Avenue, and took the name ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Main Street, Henning, TN.
Yesterday we brought you a story about a small town 50 miles North of Memphis. A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Beverly Johnson is the Program Director at the Alex Haley House and Museum. She is also a relative of Haley.
A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tasha Brown (left) and her social worker Latisha Phillips (right). Brown gave birth to her daughter, Arianna, while enrolled in Shelby County's Healthy Start Program.
The infant mortality rate in Shelby County is almost double what it is nationally. Among black women it’s almost triple. Yet there are programs in ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren., Credit: Vanderbilt University
In 1964, Southern man-of-letters Robert Penn Warren traveled the country with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and spoke with dozens of men and wo...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1