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Caption: Crystal Chandler wearing her memento, Credit: Lori Mortimer
Crystal Chandler finds the perfect memento of her grandfather, a former Seventh Day Adventist pastor, to take with her when she moves to New York.

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 18:26
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Cariad Harmon and her partner John Kesling embark on a long-awaited cross-country road trip. Cariad interviews locals and fellow travelers of all k...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
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The Solheim Cup is headed to Toledo, Ohio in just about a week. It's a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers with teams represent...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
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After being hospitalized for a month due to a complicated surgery that resulted in a blood infection, Sonia Flunder-Mcnair turned to food and the p...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Today we're headed to the Junction neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio to talk to Alicia Smith. She's the executive director of The Junction Coalition, a ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:13
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Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:06
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Fifteen years ago this month, on April 6, 2006, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison spoke to a crowded lecture hall on the campus of the University of...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 21:01
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"Art and writing has always been cathartic for me, even as a child-- Whether it was anxiety, depression, fear, society, love, etc. there was an out...

  • Added: May 10, 2021
  • Length: 06:05
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Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "...they are taking justice out in the backyard..., Credit: In "Breathing: American Sonnets" by Susan Cook
A sonnet about justice when it is buried and forgotten.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 06, 2021
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1
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We asked our peers to share one of their Black Heroes...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
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A review of the new film Judas and the Black Messiah from Los Angeles Film Critics' Association member Beandrea July.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:49
Caption: Supreme Court of Iowa. Emma Coger v. North Western Union Packet Company
In 1872, a black school teacher traveled by steamboat from Quincy, IL, to Keokuk, IA, to visit her family. Along the way, she was forcibly removed ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 05:20
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Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 32:46
  • Purchases: 1
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To honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we take a trip to Green-Wood cemetery to the grave of Sarah Smith Garnet, one of Brooklyn's B...

Bought by WCNY and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 2
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From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 22:24
  • Purchases: 2
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In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
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Have you ever found yourself looking around in a meeting or a class only to realize that you are the only one? Standing out in the crowd can be har...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 34:53
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack heads over to the Promise Neighborhood in St. Cloud on...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:09
Caption: View of Table Mountain. Cape Town, South Africa, Credit: Unsplash
This week on World Ocean Radio we share the final episode of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this broadcast we look at the ...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: Oil painting of La Amistad off the coast of Long Island , Credit: Courtesy of the New Haven Museum
This week on World Ocean Radio: part four of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this episode we discuss the history of La Amis...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 05:30
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part three of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series, we introduce listeners to Diving with a Pu...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 05:25
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"Transparency is important, especially in matters of public health. We treasure what we measure..." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring tim...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: UNESCO Slave Route: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, part two of the four-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series, we discuss trans-Atlantic slavery in the con...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: Left: Tweety Suazo; Right: Jim Harvey
Juan de Onate is responsible for brutalizing New Mexico’s Indigenous people...hear more about the history of the Spanish colonizer.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:02