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Pathways to Leadership
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Kesha Powell and Amen Emile have been working at BPL for over 20 years in various roles, from public safety to circulation manager. Thanks to BPL's...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 13:48
StoryCorps Griot: Eunice Wiley
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Eunice Wiley and Martha Bireda at their StoryCorps interview in Punta Gorda, Florida on January 23, 2017., Credit: By Vero Ordaz for StoryCorps.
Eunice Wiley shares how becoming one of the only Black teachers at a predominantly white Florida elementary school helped define her as a teacher.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Civil Rights Trail, Academic Acceleration, Wild Horse Fertility
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Following the Civil Rights Trail and Touching the History of the Movement; Topic 2: Why Gifted Youth May Not Want to Skip out on Grade-Ski...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KOWS, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 51:43
  • Purchases: 4
Education For All
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Ingrid Douglas never finished high school as a teenager. When she started looking for a better job at age sixty, she found not having a degree was ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Black Opera, Meritocracy Trap, Wikipedia
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Black Opera; Topic 2 - Meritocracy Trap; Topic 3 - Wikipedia

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 51:48
  • Purchases: 4
The Apple Seed - MLK Special Episode - I Shall Not Be Moved
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Join us today as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and we share stories and songs, bringing focus to the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 7
On Passing
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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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
Votes for Women
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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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
Marching Onward
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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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
Teach the Geek to Speak
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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As a biomedical engineer in orthobiologics, Neil Thompson still had to do a lot of public speaking. He was a self-professed awful public speaker, ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 31:48
StoryCorps Griot: Jerry Morrison and Joey Jefferson
From: StoryCorps
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NASA Engineer Joey Jefferson talks with his six-year-old nephew, Jerry Morrison, about their shared passion for space.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:34
Our Garbage, Ourselves
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 20:50
  • Purchases: 1
Free Brooklyn
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Lebronze and Arguster Davis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Lebronze and Arguster Davis at their StoryCorps interview in Birmingham on October 3, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Lebronze and Arguster Davis grew up on their family’s farm in Wetumpka, Alabama. As two of 17 siblings, they had little time for anything outside o...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 03:01
StoryCorps: Natalie Guice Adams and Eli Brown
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Natalie Guice Adams and Eli Brown at their at their StoryCorps interview in Birmingham, AL on October 2, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Former classmates Natalie Guice Adams and Eli Brown reflect for the first time on life after court-ordered desegregation.

Bought by WDBM and WOUB


  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Karama Neal and Judge Olly Neal
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Karama Neal (left) with Judge Olly Neal (right).
Judge Olly Neal tells his daughter how discovering African American author Frank Yerby's books in his school library turned him around academically.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Edward Harden Peeples Garden of Liberation Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Ed Peeples
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 09, 2019
  • Length: 25:37
  • Purchases: 1
David Hudson Superman Has Arrived Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Charles McGuigan
David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:19
David Hudson Superman Has Arrived Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:11
Reading Race
From: Rebecca Nolan
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A racial justice book group confronts the reality of racism on Cape Cod.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:32
GN_4.45_DetroitHives
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Detroit couple repurposes abandoned land for environment, people and profit.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Sharon Brangman and Jenna Lester
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Sharon Brangman (Left) and Jenna Lester (Right)
Dr. Jenna Lester talks to her mother, Dr. Sharon Brangman, about growing up in a family of black women who have dedicated their lives to medicine.

Bought by WVBI-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
Black College Heritage Matters
From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show
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A discussion of the important the heritage of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 31:35
StoryCorps: Ronald Clark and Jamilah Clark
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Ronald Clark and Jamilah Clark
During the 1940s, custodians who worked for the New York Public Library often lived inside the buildings they tended. In exchange for cleaning and ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:11
StoryCorps: Johnny Holmes and Christian Picciolini
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Johnny Holmes (left) and Christian Picciolini (right)
In the 1990s, Johnny Holmes was head of security at a high school in Blue Island, Illinois, located just outside of Chicago, where he met Christian...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:19