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HIV Education in the African American Church (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Psychologist John Fife is working to address what he says is a critical need for HIV interventions that target older Americans, specifically older ...

Bought by WJCT, WCPN, KKRN, WTJU, and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 5
HIV Education in the African American Church (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Psychologist John Fife is working to address what he says is a critical need for HIV interventions that target older Americans, specifically older ...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, WLIW, and KENW


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Furious Flowers: Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez (Special)
From: With Good Reason
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Conversations with celebrated American poets Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KQED, WVAS, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 10
Theater artist Ping Chong shines a spotlight on race in America with Collidescope.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Moriamo Akibu in COLLIDESCOPE , Credit: Stan Barouh
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
RACE: My Story and Humanity's Bottom Line
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Lauren Nile
Lauren Joichin Nile introduces her readers to some provocative ideas in her book RACE: My Story and Humanity’s Bottom Line. Her work delves deep in...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 30, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2011 National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward finds the past is often present in rural Mississippi.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jesmyn Ward, Credit: Tony Cook
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE -- Justin Simien Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Justin Simien, San Francisco, CA 10/17/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Justin Simien talks satire, social mirrors, and the truth of life.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:56
#1413 - Religious Objects: S. Brent Plate, Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
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S. Brent Plate on materiality and lived experience. Natasha Alford on Memphis, Martin Luther King, and Ferguson.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 41:08
Furious Love (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Nancy Schoenberger chronicles the tempestuous romance of Liz & Dick in her book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of...

Bought by WJCT, WMNF, WLIW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
A Burnable Book (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Murder, mystery, and poetry come together in medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger’s new novel set in Chaucer’s London.

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, and KKRN


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with Dinaw Mengestu
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: Michael Lionstar
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Maya Angelou in Conversation with Studs Terkel: March 13, 1970
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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Maya Angelou discusses growing up in Stamps, Arkansas, and early adulthood experiences as recounted in her recently released autobiography I Know W...

Bought by PRX Demo Station, KAAD-LP, KRDP, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMUZ and more


  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:04:47
  • Purchases: 27
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
A conversation with Anthony Braxton
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Anthony Braxton, Credit: Photo by Michael G. Stewart
Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 40:46
ANITA: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER -- Freida Mock Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Freida Mock talks time, perspective, and the impact of the right image.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:36
A Conversation with Tope Folarin-Winner of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tope Folarin, Credit: David Fleming
Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian ch...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
MLK: Three Landmark Speeches
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Three key speeches of American civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King Junior are excerpted and commented on by two lea...

Bought by KALW, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 33
Jazz and Civil Rights (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
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How the personal and professional lives of musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane were tied to the struggle for racial e...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, KHSU, WRIR, WVAS and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 14
FRUITVALE STATION -- Michael B. Jordan & Octavia Spencer interview.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Michael B. Jordan & Octavia Spencer, Oakland, CA 6/21/13 , Credit: Andrea Chase
Michael B. Jordan and Octavia Spencer talk truth, pain, and spirituality.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 11:03
  • Purchases: 2
Recalling Mandela (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Nelson Mandela's life and times are recalled in conversation with radio documentarian Joe Richman who researched Mandela's story for a major 2004 d...

Bought by KZYX, Radio Catskill, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WNMU-FM, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Recalling Mandela (Peace Talks Radio) [59:00 / 54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Nelson Mandela's life and times are recalled in conversation with radio documentarian Joe Richman who researched Mandela's story for a major 2004 d...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, global24radio, KDNK, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:41
  • Purchases: 10
The Dream Before the Dream: Detroit, 1963
From: Zak Rosen
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On June 23, 1963, labor and church leaders organized tens of thousands of people in Detroit for the Great March to Freedom. Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 3
GIMME THE LOOT -- Adam Leon Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Adam Leon, San Francisco, CA 4/20/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Adam Leon talks anxiety attacks, passing the smell test, and taking what New York threw at him.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 14:44
Food Sleuth Radio, Gail Myers Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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“Rhythms of the Land!” is a documentary-in-progress which tells the important stories of African American farmers. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
WorldCanvass: The Rupture of Civil War
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Historical perspective on the Civil War and its effect on average Americans.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:51:07