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Can journalists, by being more mindful of the language that they use and the breadth of people that they talk to, have an impact on reducing confli...
- Added: Jun 13, 2013
- Length: 58:59
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
Adam Leon talks anxiety attacks, passing the smell test, and taking what New York threw at him.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 14:44
“Rhythms of the Land!” is a documentary-in-progress which tells the important stories of African American farmers. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 28:00
When we think of early rock and roll most of us think of musicians like Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash. But all these legends grew ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 1
Historical perspective on the Civil War and its effect on average Americans.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 01:51:07
Marlon Wayans talks Hollywood, going off-script, and the serious business of comedy.
- Added: Jan 12, 2013
- Length: 12:32
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:26
In 1993, Toni Morrison became only the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joanne Gabbin, executive director of the Furiou...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 02:39
Nationally renowned writers, singers, and poets pay tribute to Toni Morrison, whose works have earned her the highest accolades in literature and e...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and KWMR-FM
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 2
The fourth and final installment of the Jazz Crossroads of America series. In the 1960s universities began to establish jazz education programs, an...
Bought by WPTC
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
In this conversation, Juanita Brown wanted to go beyond the hype that President Obama's election marked "the end of history" in American race relat...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 38:28
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 44:14
WUNC is a part of the American Graduate Project. It's a public media initiative looking at the drop out crisis across the country. As a part of thi...
Bought by KZYX and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 2
It's a first taste of sweet home Chicago from the early years to the musical rivalry of the 50's between Muddy Water's and Howlin' Wolf.
Bought by Radio New Zealand
- Added: Jul 14, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
This second installment in the series titled Bringing Down the New Jim Crow features the first ever dialog between legal scholar Michelle Alexander...
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Until recently, most researchers believed the brain stopped developing cognitive ability after a certain age. But a new study suggests otherwise.
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 01:57:35
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
In 1931, Herbert Hoover called the idea of owning one’s own “a sentiment deep in the heart of our race and of American life.” In this episode of Ba...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio, WEZU, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and WRPI
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
Nikky Finney, a poet, won the 2011 National Book Award for her work "Head Off & Split." Finney is professor of English and creative writing at the ...
- Added: Apr 19, 2012
- Length: 54:02
A bell tower that has been mute for 70 years at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia is about to get a voice thanks to Diane Watkins.
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 55:55
Writer/director Dee Rees talks breakthrough poetry, gender fluidity, and the healing power of ice cream.
- Added: Jan 10, 2012
- Length: 15:04
In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KVSC, 90.5 WSNC, KGNU, WRPI and more
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
Poet and fiction writer Sapphire, best-known for her novel PUSH, which became the award-winning film PRECIOUS, reads from her 2011 novel, THE KID, ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 29:01
It's our encore presentation of our Tin Roof Project featuring Presidential Diarist Janis Kearney, reading her true story about her childhood in ru...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Oct 21, 2011
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
