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The FRFF is a festival held around Winona that features a variety of documentary films. Though these films vary in message, topic, and substance th...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 27:07
Minneapolis musician Taylor Seaberg turned strife into music and healing.
"I’m experimental. I go completely against the grain of what a lot of Mi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 05:23
We're talking to a brand new organization on this week's RDD. It's the Toledo Black Artist Coalition, a collection of artists, educators, activists...
- Added: Sep 22, 2020
- Length: 06:15
Today on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're talking to a young artist, one that has just recently moved to New York City. Jordan Collins fell in love w...
- Added: Sep 15, 2020
- Length: 06:24
Remorse - Brendon Hamilton has been writing and performing since he was a young child. Influenced by some of rock, pop, and R&B's greatest recordin...
- Added: Jul 20, 2020
- Length: 02:44
Clifford Murphy, one of Toledo's Jazz Icons known for playing in his jazz group, The Murphy's and his Jazz Cafe, Murphy's Place, passed away over t...
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 06:10
Ellen Hughes speaks with Keith Miller, the hospital safety officer who helped her son when he had a violent reaction to a medication.
- Added: Apr 22, 2019
- Length: 02:34
When Americans think about the Civil War, they often think of North versus South, free states versus slave states. And in Minnesota, well, we’re th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 15, 2018
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.
- Added: Feb 27, 2018
- Length: 05:00
Critic Terrence Rafferty of GQ called "Killer of Sheep," a film by Charles Burnett, "one of the most striking debuts in movie history." In this epi...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 26:17
- Purchases: 2
Ever since Prince died in 2016, people who knew him have come forward with personal stories about what the famously private star was actually like ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 19, 2017
- Length: 05:40
- Purchases: 1
Camaran Henson grew up hearing stories about his grandfather, Leonard Simmons, who was a police officer in Newark, New Jersey. He came to StoryCorp...
Bought by Public Radio for All, KALW, WEZU, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 4
Luthier, Freeman Vines talks about the guitar he's building from the wood of the old hanging tree.
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 09:15
This Cutting Edge Special looks at the life of writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 01:00:16
Minneapolis singer Jayanthi Kyle grew up listening to songs of the civil rights movement. As police-involved killings of African-Americans gave ris...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY and KVSC
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
Fixing Musical malfunctions like a mechanic, germinating in the workshop and in the grooveyard. Paying particular tribute to a giant of our music B...
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 01:59:56
- Purchases: 4
Nicholas Heyward Sr. remembers his son, Nicholas Jr., a 13-year-old who was playing with a toy gun when he was killed by a police officer in Brookl...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 02:40
With Kenny Burrell interpreting Duke Ellington, artistry can do no wrong. Blues of southwest and midwest inspiration include Gerald Wilson. Jazz ...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 01:59:53
- Purchases: 4
Janice N. Harrington, draws from myriad experiences to create her poetry and children's stories. In this interview with NEW LETTERS magazine editor...
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Charles-Austin Ross tells about his family, growing up, and finding his voice when opposition might stand in the way of his future.
- Added: Sep 26, 2013
- Length: 03:32
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
- Added: Apr 27, 2009
- Length: 01:22
Her fouth year in the competition, Dianna says this piece is about Emmett Till's mother. Dianna Harris is 17 years old and was an individual final...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
His second year in the competition, Demetrius says this piece is about fitting into all four of his races. Demetrius Amparan is 17 years old and w...
Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 1
From: Chris Goldstein
James Loewen is an internationally celebrated author, professor and historian....he highligts an often-overlooked aspect of America's institutional...
Bought by KUT-HD
- Added: Feb 19, 2008
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 1
