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Radio Curious visits with Chautauqua scholars Sally Wagner & Charles Pace who portray Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass. The two friends...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 29:01
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: 01:19
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: 01:31
As the 2009 ACORN scandal quickly unfolded and funding started to dry up, the groups’ members and organizers had to jump ship. Many formed new loc...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 08:20
Before Daphne Maxwell Reid appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, she was a number of "firsts," including the first African American homecoming q...
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 02:29
This week it's our monthly series The Tin Roof Project, where well-known Southerners bring their own true stories to life. This month's Tin Roofer ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week our writers grapple with the colors that separate, whether black, brown, or white. Stories by Tyler Thompson, Leslie Epps, and Jennifer M...
- Added: Aug 25, 2012
- Length: 29:00
THE DROP OUT DILEMMA IS SPECIAL CONVERSATION ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN THE ROCHESTER AREA. THE WXXI NEWS TEAM HAS BEEN TAKING AN IN-DEPT...
- Added: Aug 22, 2012
- Length: 58:57
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Our first episode of 2012 features a look at some of the best interview segments of 2011. Artists featured inclu...
- Added: Jan 21, 2012
- Length: 59:00
In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its schools rather than integrate. The closures lasted for five years, and the people who were denie...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Jan 12, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
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
An American Muslim woman describes the ways she meets her religious requirements at work, and her co-workers reactions.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 02:28
Operatic tenor Everett McCorvey talks about how he was drawn into the music, how he helped build the opera program at University of Kentucky, and t...
Bought by WEKU
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 26:18
- Purchases: 1
"Well, growing up in Detroit I was exposed to a lot of different music, a lot of different cultures at a very young age without ever having to leav...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 4
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. Lorenzo Diggs takes us inside the harrowing conditions of the Bedford-Atlantic Armory shelter...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: May 09, 2011
- Length: 10:11
- Purchases: 1
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. Shortly after being promoted and relocated from New York to Miami, Rob Robinson is laid off a...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: May 09, 2011
- Length: 13:07
- Purchases: 1
James Roberts shares his journey trying to save his ailing partner William, who has HIV, and their home together. Full piece includes story with i...
Bought by KGNU and Public Radio Remix
- Added: May 09, 2011
- Length: 08:10
- Purchases: 2
On her way home from her grandmother's funeral in 1996, Carmen happens to meet a remarkable African-American guitarist in a thrift shop in North Ca...
Bought by KUT, KGLT, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 3
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nu...
Bought by KUT, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 3
Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:11
The crème de la crème of shake-your-moneymaker Louisiana funk
Bought by KEOS, WNCU, and North Country Public Radio
- Added: Nov 15, 2009
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Brand New Blues with a Crescent City beat
- Added: Oct 21, 2009
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 3
Audio documentary- A young white rapper out of North Side Minneapolis.
- Added: Oct 07, 2009
- Length: 05:08
Ninety-four year-old Blues legend recalls his almost thirty years as a boxcar hobo and gambler.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Aug 18, 2009
- Length: 10:02
- Purchases: 1
An hour-long program of classic jazz, highlighting the life of the late David Young, an Indiana-based jazz great.
- Added: Apr 20, 2009
- Length: 59:01
