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Nike executive Howard White believes saying "hello" opens a door to deeper connections with people.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 22, 2008
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
Reflections on My Father
- Added: Jun 16, 2008
- Length: 12:54
Washingtonian Yolanda Young believes not having loved her absent father allowed her to forgive him.
Bought by KJZZ
- Added: Oct 08, 2007
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 1
Choreographer Judith Jamison believes being "good" includes being open, honest and true to oneself.
Bought by KJZZ
- Added: Mar 30, 2007
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 1
With a black father that wanted to be darker and an aunt that passed for white, Novana writes about how to accept her biracial identity. This poet...
Bought by Public Interactive
- Added: Mar 22, 2007
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 1
One young writer's lessons learning from a family member with a mental disability. This poet is a student at Oak Park-River Forest High School (IL).
- Added: Mar 22, 2007
- Length: 02:27
Partners in music, and in life, for somewhere around 50 years ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2007
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 2
Ordinary people recall how they participated in the Civil Rights Movement now fifty years after it's advent.
- Added: Jan 03, 2007
- Length: 52:32
- Purchases: 2
New York City Finance Commissioner Martha Stark believes numbers shape our lives more than we realize.
Bought by KJZZ
- Added: Oct 06, 2006
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
Listener Phyllis Allen once defined her beliefs by social movements. Now, she finds them in herself.
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 04:15
Renowned pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson believes he owes his life and career to his mother.
Bought by WJFF, WJAB, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 3
Journalist John W. Fountain believes God offered him more parenting than his father ever could have.
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 2
Kentucky poet Frank X Walker believes creativity helps people stay happy and enriches our world.
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Apr 22, 2006
- Length: 04:29
Nanci Olesen describes her (very positive) reaction to Rise Up Singing, Black Women Writers on Motherhood
- Added: Feb 16, 2006
- Length: 01:34
A young Chicago poet explores his understanding of the ridicule his parents faced for being a mixed couple, and how his bi-racial identity has been...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KUOW, and WMPG
- Added: Apr 01, 2005
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 4
A double standard still exists for this racial epithet.
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFAI, and Public Interactive
- Added: Feb 10, 2005
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Feb 01, 2005
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 1
