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This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: Jul 28, 2022
- Length: 24:10
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 27:51
There’s a man in a small city thirty miles south of Richmond Virginia whose business was pretty much wiped out by the Coronavirus pandemic. But des...
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 12:26
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
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 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 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
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 26:39
Jamila Davenport of Durham, NC has been a lifelong fan of singer Kenny Loggins. When he comes to perform at the venue she manages, she comes face-t...
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 04:21
Anthony Clary grew up in the bricks. Buildings linear as Legos, lining block after block of city streets, stretching from Porter to Dinwiddie, from...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 26:58
- Purchases: 1
At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 2
Black and Proud explores the era when African Americans began to aggressively challenge myths of inferiority. As Martha Bouyer, a participant in th...
Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KISU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPIP-LP and more
- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 6
This story explores Michelle Obama's early life, expectations surrounding her ascendency as First Lady, and the impact she will leave on the office...
Bought by WWNO, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WHCP-LP Cambridge, WTJU, CI Dolphin Radio and more
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:33
- Purchases: 12
A half-century of musical innovation and self-determination, told by AACM co-founder (currently AACM-New York president) and 2010 NEA Jazz Master M...
Bought by XRAY.fm, WMUU-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 23, 2015
- Length: 28:28
- Purchases: 3
Gloria Rhoden hails from Saint Mary, Jamaica. She has traveled the United States, up and down the East Coast for years. She knew Bob Marley and san...
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 24:17
Sam White saw potential in the drama of a struggling city — a perfect setting for Shakespeare's plays.
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 19:51
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
In the final episode, the NAACP begins efforts to fight the death sentences handed down in Helena, led in part by Scipio Africanus Jones, the leadi...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Jan 06, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
This is a story that begs to be told. It’s long overdue.
The year was 1919. The place: Phillips County, Arkansas.
What became a watershed moment i...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
When you call 911, who answers the phone? How do they decide who to send to the scene, and how fast will they get there? We bring you a 2-part spec...
- Added: Dec 26, 2013
- Length: 58:59
Donald Perry was found not guilty--so why is he still in prison?
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 05:41
- Purchases: 2
In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:15
