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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 19, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Primary care doctor Tseganesh Selameab brings us inside her practice as a provider for immigrants and refugees, and describes one of the most commo...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 39:02
The story of our Black hair speaks volumes about our lives. So much love and care is wrapped up in our curls. Alongside so much vulnerability and p...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 33:10
When one white woman working in Hollywood received a surprise residuals check, she skipped the bank and deposited it straight to Twitter. She offer...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 3
Raven and Eboni are friends who look like each other. And there are not a lot of people who like they do at their college in Missoula, Montana. But...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2019
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
"What we don’t know is what happened in the 18 seconds that the police officer that was in the hallway. He ended up shooting my son seven times in ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 36:29
Nashua, NH Police Sergeant, Lakeisha Phelps is one of two black police officers on a force with 176 police officers, in one of New Hampshire’s most...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 13:10
Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:04
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
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on discrimination at Muirfield, the golf club hosting the 2013 British Open.
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 02:30
This week's stories are about assumptions-- and we all know what happens when people make them. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Jim Frey, and Patrice Mel...
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Poet Asha Ransby-Sporn, 17, is a senior at University of Chicago Laboratory High School. This is her first year participating in Louder Than a Bom...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Poet Kush Thompson, 17, is a senior at Orr Academy High School, but she was representing YOUmedia Chicago in this year's competition. This is her ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 03:14
Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Poet Kush Thompson, 16, is a junior at Orr Academy; she competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing her high school.
When asked about the sub...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 1
Poet Melana Bass, 17, is a junior at TEAM Englewood; she competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing her high school.
‘What would I do withou...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:36
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nu...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 3
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton believe in forgiveness, but from different perspectives.
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 4
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 15
Environmental activist Majora Carter believes in making the old neighborhood a better place to live.
- Added: Feb 09, 2009
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 3
In no longer fighting her kinky hair, Toya Marshall believes she found the freedom to be herself.
Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KUOW, and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Jan 05, 2009
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 4
