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Caption: Destiny McClendon, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Destiny McClendon, 17, is a senior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time t...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
Caption: Brooks College Prep's Lyrikally Xplicit, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Sex Sells is a team piece about the objectifying stereotypes of women, performed by the poets of Lyrikally Xplicit from Gwendolyn Brooks College Pr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
Caption: Mariah Starks, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Mariah Starks, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. Her piece, "The...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
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A panel discussion of contemporary corporate media culture and its' effects upon Black America.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:12
Caption: Breaking the chains of slavery, Credit: empirical_perception
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Forty years ago, the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize spoke at the 1971 dedication of the MLK Park in south Minneapolis. ...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2012
  • Length: 06:35
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Barack Obama’s first term has been a disappointment for many, and leaves open the question for those with a progressive agenda—is voting for Obama ...

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Jaheem Herrera
: Public school students and parents are seeing some changes this year in the way their schools handle bullying. That’s because of a law passed by...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Public employees, many of them African-Americans, are being hit particularly hard by today's high levels of unemployment.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:03
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Discovering cultural attitudes about race and class--through burial practices.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
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For reasons yet unknown, more and more Americans each year have been contracting asthma. In spite of the fact that 17% of black children now have...

  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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The Great Recession officially ended in Jun 2009 but the American workforce is still suffering from its traumatic effects.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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The wealth gap between African-American and white workers has been growing steadily even as the wage gap has been shrinking.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:12
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Genocide has claimed the lives of millions of civilians worldwide. Now, in the aftermath of such atrocities, human rights advocates are beginning t...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2010
  • Length: 55:00

  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, a panel of guests explore Barack Obama’s potential as a peacemaker in global and domestic affairs and how he...

Bought by KUOW and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 58:44
  • Purchases: 2
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Does a black president equal black power? Three African-American community leaders discuss how Obama’s election, and presidency, has changed their ...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KALW


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Farm and domestic workers are seeking the vital union rights that were granted other U.S. workers way back in 1935.

  • Added: May 28, 2009
  • Length: 03:55
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A one hour interview with Majora Carter and Van Jones.

Bought by WRPI and Moab Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on YO!Radio, Wanda Sykes announces her sexual preference, race crimes rock the nation and teens are terribly optimistic.

  • Added: Nov 25, 2008
  • Length: 15:40