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Among Detroit’s many problems: a public school system so deep in debt that last year, the state took it over. Michigan’s governor hired Robert Bob...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 08:18
Elsa Lankford's audio doc class went to Lexington Market. We interviewed a variety of food vendors and got their take on Baltimore history and cur...
- Added: May 15, 2010
- Length: 04:31
One actor from the cast of the new HBO television show "Treme" is doing more than just acting.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 1
University of Tennessee graduate Kady Amundson’s days rarely end when school is over. At the start of her Teach for America assignment, her school ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 06:16
Meet Harvard graduate Colleston Morgan. His first two years as a Teach for America teacher were highly successful. So why did he leave the classro...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
She graduated from Princeton. She enrolled in Teach for America, worked hard and really wanted to be a role model. So why didn’t this teacher get t...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:47
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
Deputy Superintendent Michael Haggen discusses how new programs are helping students in New Orleans' alternative schools develop a voice.
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 05:06
Khalil Osiris’ “Circle of Courage” is one strategy the Booker T. Washington middle school is using to try and help students stay out of trouble and...
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 07:30
This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...
Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more
- Added: Sep 26, 2009
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 40
A woman who teaches English in African refugee camps finds her students sometimes need more than an English lesson.
Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, and KRUA
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 3
African immigrants are the fastest growing segment of the black population in the U.S. On this edition, we meet Mauton Akran, a Nigerian immigrant ...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, XRAY.fm, WCSU-FM, and WNCU
- Added: Aug 08, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
The NY City Draft Riots & The Battle of Ft. Wagner - July 1863
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
John Brown, Frederick Douglass & Harper's Ferry
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Catherine "Katie" Ferguson, the Jennings Family, and the Battle for Full First-Class Citizenship (1830-1854)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Ruggles, Douglass and the Rise of the Abolitionist and Back to Africa Movements, & the Underground Railroad (1830-1854)
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
The Rise of the Black Church, the Black Press and the Fight for Education (1783-1830)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Huddy and Tye (1775-1783)
Bought by WNYC
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
More Revolts, "Conspiracies," and Runaways (1712-1775)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Slave revolts & resistance: New England / New York 1712, etc.
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Sussana Anthony Roberts, Solomon Pieters, and the Push for Personal and Economic Freedom (1664-1712)
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Eleven Africans and the Survival of the New Netherlands Colony (1624-1664)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Juan "Jan" Rodrigues, the First Free African in the Hudson Valley (1612-1614)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
Preview/Overview: (1624-1863)
- Added: Jan 25, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
This is an in depth look at one of the many charter schools opening this fall in New Orleans
- Added: Sep 04, 2007
- Length: 12:59