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SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: MLK Day- Seeing (Me) Is Believing with author Tami Charles
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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When Tami Charles’ son was in kindergarten, he asked her: “If Dr. King was such a good guy who wanted all these wonderful things for everyone, Momm...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WRKF, RadioStPete Florida, Wyoming Public Radio, WUWM and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 14
2023-01-20 Activism, Art and Environmental Justice
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
20231020: Activism, Art and Environmental Justice, 1/20/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
TriggaMeals
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today on The Rough Draft Diaries, we headed down to Bowling Green, Ohio to meet with DeAnte Shivers, the creator of TriggaMeals. It's a food busin...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Dec 06, 2021
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #11: Home
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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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
Poet and Editor Kwame Dawes
From: New Letters on the Air
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Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, the poet Kwame Dawes is the editor of Nebraska's literary magazine, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, and the 2021 successor t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Fallen of 2020
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
The Lisa Show Martin Luther King Jr. Day Special - “I Have a Dream” Speech Witness, Representation in Media, Being Anti-Racist
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Lisa Show
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Topic 1 - Witness of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech; Topic 2 - Representation in Media; Topic 3 - Being Anti-Racist

Bought by KTXK, Radio Catskill, WLPR , WCPN, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 52:19
  • Purchases: 6
MLK Day Segments
From: KXCI
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We asked members of Tucson's black community to share insight on topics related to their blackness. A series of short segments designed for broadca...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2020
  • Length: 14:29
Pieces of Me
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: See It Through My Eyes
Caption: Dave McClinton interviewed by Akins High School Austin Corps class, Credit: Texas Folklife
Artist profile of Dave McClinton, an Austin-based artist and graphic designer. This story is part of an audio series "See It Through My Eyes" creat...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 05:24
John Grisham Writers Hour - James McBride
From: WMRA
Series: The John Grisham Writers Hour
Caption: John Grisham & James McBride, Credit: JMU Creative Media
Recorded in front of a live audience, WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest James McBride, a N...

Bought by WCVE


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 1
Poet and MacArthur Fellow Terrance Hayes
From: New Letters on the Air
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Multi-award-winning poet and MacArthur fellow, Terrance Hayes, reads from his fifth book, HOW TO BE DRAWN, winner of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16) Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
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Guest editor of BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2017, Natasha Trethewey talks about her her first creative non-fiction book, BEYOND KATRINA: A MEDITATION ON T...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Blues America 76 - 2016 Rewind Show
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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A look back at some of the best moments from 2016.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KRPS, and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Mothers about Mothers
From: Sedge Thomson
Series: West Coast Live
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About NOT Being My Mother - Ruth Reichl talks about her book; Marilyn Yalom on the History of the Breast, Anne Lamott about her daily life; Tillie ...

  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:00
Charles McDew "We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For" - Part Two
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Previously on Culture Clique, we featured Charles McDew's talk "We Are the People We Have Been Waiting For" as presented at Winona State University...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 15:07
  • Purchases: 1
The Legacy of Massive Resistance
From: With Good Reason
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In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its schools rather than integrate. The closures lasted for five years, and the people who were denie...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KZYX, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
JazzStories: Regina Carter
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"Well, growing up in Detroit I was exposed to a lot of different music, a lot of different cultures at a very young age without ever having to leav...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 6
A Conversation with Lou Gossett Jr.
From: Dr. Susan Flowers
Series: Your Life is Waiting Show
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The show where extraordinary celebrities share their ability to adapt and thrive..."One Conversation at a Time!"

  • Added: Mar 14, 2011
  • Length: 40:40
The 34th Annual Soul Food Dinner at Winona State University
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: The newly formed Pi Eta chapter of Phi Beta Sigma step before the beginning of the 34th Annual Soul Food Dinner on Saturday in Kryzsko Commons on Winona State University campus. Performing are Sam Ndely, left, Beh Gay, center, and Forrest Agnew. , Credit: David Ranzenberger/Winona Daily News
Members of Phi Beta Sigma’s fraternity started off this year’s 34th annual Soul Food Dinner at Winona State University. The Harlem Renaissance was ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 12:21
Bobby McFerrin talks to RADIJOJO
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Series: Across the Ocean - the first Transatlantic Radio for kids
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A while ago, Bobby McFerrin performed at the Berliner Philharmonic with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Well, that was something we just couldn't m...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 09:29
Brother Purham: A Steelworker's Story
From: Ayana Contreras
Caption: the Arcelor Mittal Steel Mill, East Chicago, IN. Formerly Inland Steel, Credit: Ayana Contreras
Recorded by fellow retired steelworker Joe Gutierrez, and produced by Ayana Contreras, this piece was created for Vocalo.org in conjunction with Th...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 10:00
We Are Strong Women
From: Julia Applegate
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Interviews with HIV+ Women

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and KUGS Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 08, 2006
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 4
Katrina Survivor: New Orleans jazz singer Charmaine Neville
From: Miae Kim
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Hurrican Katrina survivor's first -hand account

Bought by KSJD, KGOU, KTNA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 08, 2005
  • Length: 27:10
  • Purchases: 5