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Although the rest of the nation is on its way to a slow recovery, unemployment among black women remains stubbornly high. Jones-DeWeever explores t...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 1
The Writ Writer” by Michael Murphy is a five-part docudrama of the events surrounding the Elaine, Arkansas massacre in 1919.
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 28:48
According to the 2010 census, Marin City is now a median-income community. But a stigma and challenges remain. Marin City still has higher crime an...
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 05:59
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 1
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
How one woman is re-imagining the possibilities of living, working, and building a sustainable Detroit
Bought by Public Radio Remix and WAMC
- Added: Dec 05, 2011
- Length: 07:14
- Purchases: 2
John Klein remembers meeting the love of his life, Mary Ann Allen, with her daughter Bernice Flournoy.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Oct 18, 2011
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
Mary Morris remembers her husband, Thomas, one of two Washington D.C. postal workers who died from exposure to anthrax in October, 2001.
- Added: Oct 13, 2011
- Length: 02:16
A look at the challenges faced by out-of-work African American male ex-offenders.
- Added: Sep 12, 2011
- Length: 05:53
There are ten thousand street vendors in New York City, that magnet for the world's poor and America's hopeful; some licensed and some not. Vendors...
- Added: May 11, 2011
- Length: 48:34
Sen. Spencer Coggs addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon his return to Madison March 12, 2011
- Added: Mar 12, 2011
- Length: 02:04
Sen. Lena Taylor addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon her return to Madison on March 12, 2011
- Added: Mar 12, 2011
- Length: 01:35
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
The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a leader in the fight for racial equality, should be high on the list of those we honor during ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2011
- Length: 04:02
Geoffrey is a guy with his feet in a couple places. He attends school full time, works two jobs, takes care of six siblings and a daughter, and ha...
Bought by WMPG and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 2
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
Blind since a hiking accident in 1971, Charles Blackwell has not let his disability prevent him from becoming a vibrant visual artists. In this seg...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 1
This Labor Day, Americans will commemorate the legendary gumption of the American worker by taking some much-deserved time off from work. Americans...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 30
Cactus Car Wash owner Frank Lynch talks with his employee and friend, Antonio Douglas, about helping him get in shape.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio and KFOK-LP
- Added: Feb 08, 2010
- Length: 01:49
- Purchases: 2
Sam Reed, a mortician and the caretaker of Atlanta's historic Oakland Cemetery, talks about how his interest in the funeral business started at a y...
Bought by KFOK-LP, KCUR, and Remix Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2009
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 08:28
- Purchases: 1
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
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 2
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré believes hard work can build character and promote freedom.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 04:03
- Purchases: 1
African-American workers have been hit especially hard by the alarming growth of unemployment.
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Apr 17, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
