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Chasing the Crescent Moon: The Story of Dr. Frempong and Sickle Cell Disease
From: Aaron Schwartz
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A documentary exploring sickle cell disease and an extraordinary doctor who is fighting the illness in Philadelphia and West Africa.

Bought by KUNM, KUNM, KWIT, WCPN, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
WWOZ Street Talk- Yoga In The Lower Ninth Ward
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
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Michelle Baker wanted to bring yoga to the ninth ward but she wasnt sure how.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2008
  • Length: 05:48
Dock Ellis Pitches a No-No
From: Neille Ilel
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An Alternate Take on Drugs and Baseball

Bought by KCRW, KFAI, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Griot: George Hill
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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George Hill remembers being homeless. Hill has been off the streets for 10 years.

Bought by KFOK-LP and WMNF


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 2
Still Talking About Sex
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The first African American U.S. Surgeon General, Joycelyn Elders, remains an outspoken advocate for health related policies. This is a speech given...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Navigating in Nebraska
From: Lawrence Lanahan
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Two years ago, 166 Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans ended up in Omaha, Nebraska. Two years out, one man is trying hard--perhaps too hard...

Bought by KFAI and KUT-HD


  • Added: Dec 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 2
The Color of AIDS: Bringing "Risk" Up to Date
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Those on the frontlines of the grassroots HIV/AIDS movement bring the discussion about HIV risk up to date. They say generating more relevant preve...

Bought by WSKG and KTSU


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Teasers for "SisterLove: Keeping it Real, Globally!"
From: Noah Chandler
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Short teasers for the the series "SisterLove: Keeping it Real, Globally"

  • Added: May 09, 2007
  • Length: 02:18
Hair Cut Check Up
From: Tanya Ott
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African American women die of breast cancer at much higher rates than other women, but a unique program is turning African American hair dressers i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 3
We Are Strong Women
From: Julia Applegate
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Interviews with HIV+ Women

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WAMC, 90.5 WSNC, and KUGS


  • Added: Nov 08, 2006
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Hasiyna Price
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Hasiyna Price tells her cousin Danette Banks about being a teenager with scoliosis.

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Oct 20, 2006
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 1
AIDS in Rural Georgia
From: Philip Graitcer
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The character of the AIDS epidemic is changing in rural Georgia

  • Added: Jul 23, 2006
  • Length: 03:34
This I Believe - Pius Kamau
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Surgeon Pius Kamau believes in caring for his patients, even when they don?t care for a black doctor.

Bought by KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
Thembi's AIDS Diary
From: Radio Diaries
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A year in the life of a South African teenager.

Bought by Remix Radio, PRX to iTunes, WRNC-LP, KPFA, KFAI and more


  • Added: May 30, 2006
  • Length: 50:37
  • Purchases: 16
Created Equal?
From: Voices of Our World
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Thomas Jefferson wrote it, and we say we believe it, but

  • Added: Feb 23, 2006
  • Length: 27:58
Wealth and Poverty: Farmers Market
From: KALW
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Feature on a Farmers Market that Provides Nutrition for an Impoverished Community

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2005
  • Length: 09:39
  • Purchases: 1
Obesity
From: WAMU
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Jennifer has curves to die for...but she doesn't want to die for 'em! Find out why her friends don't necessarily feel the same.

Bought by WAMC, Public Radio Exchange, WNPR, WBEZ, and KCUR


  • Added: Aug 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 5
Counseling
From: WAMU
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Kamilia's teacher thinks she should see a counselor. Counseling? No way.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:35
Health: Cultural Psychiatry
From: KALW
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Feature on the First Cultural Psychiatry Training Program in the U.S.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2005
  • Length: 07:25
Health: Transplant Discrimination
From: KALW
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Feature Profiling a Black Man Awaiting a Kidney Transplant

Bought by KUOW, KRUA, and KLCC


  • Added: Aug 08, 2005
  • Length: 08:21
  • Purchases: 3
HEART-to-HEART Pgm III: Respecting Diversity
From: Claire Schoen
Series: HEART-to-HEART: Caring for the Dying
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Respecting Diversity looks at the influence of culture, race and religion on dying; how the assumptions behind "good end-of-life care" do not nece...

Bought by WETA, Audible, WCAI / WNAN, and KALW


  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:45
  • Purchases: 4
Culture of the Mind
From: Hana Baba
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A look at the country's first and only group of "Ethnic Psychiatry" wards.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2005
  • Length: 11:12
A Danger to Self and Others
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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"A Danger to Self or Others" documents everyday life inside the Chicago Cook County Jail's Mental Health Division - the largest provider of mental ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and WYBC


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
Garbage Man-Long Version
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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A trashman talks frankly about his life and work

Bought by KUT, Vocalo.org, Public Radio Remix, KVNF, WYBC and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 6
Healthy Babies
From: Richard Paul
Series: People Who Work
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The van that's keeping babies healthy one mother at a time.

Bought by Public Radio Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUHB, KFAI, and WBFO


  • Added: Dec 27, 2003
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 5