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Caption: Hannah Visits the Liberty Bell , Credit: Hannah Providence
15-year-old Hannah tells us what it's like to skip elementary and middle school.

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 06:26
Caption: Darrell Molett in his living room, Credit: Rachel Wong
Dejon Lewis was 11 years old when child protective services arrived to take him and his twin sister away from their mother, whom he says is a drug ...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 08:47
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Michael Powell is a train driver for the Chicago Transit Authority. He captivated me for years with his chatty speeches over the train's speakers. ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Nearly a third of college students in the United States are first-generation—meaning their parents and grandparents didn’t go. For many of these st...

Bought by WJCT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KVSC, and WLIW


  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Nearly a third of college students in the United States are first-generation—meaning their parents and grandparents didn’t go. For many of these st...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, KFOK-LPFM, WTJU, and WXDU


  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
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Collin Smith (23), who became quadriplegic after a car accident in high school, talks with Ernest Greene (72) who volunteered to go to college with...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Riverside High School senior Cameron McNeill and math teacher/school paper adviser Steven Unruhe, Credit: Deirdre Logan
Cameron McNeill is a senior at Riverside High School in Durham, where Steven Unruhe teaches math and advises students who write for the school pape...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: This chart represents scores for African-American child well-being. Michigan is all the way on the right, third worst in the nation., Credit: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Race for Results report
Our State of Opportunity team looks at many statistics and reports about child well-being in Michigan. Recently, the Annie E. Casey Foundation rele...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
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
Caption: Renee Howard, third-grade teacher at Congress Elementary in Grand Rapids, coaches her students on writing., Credit: Dustin Dwyer / Michigan Radio
If you want to hear our full documentary on Congress Elementary, you can find it by clicking on the State of Opportunity tab at michiganradio.org. ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:09
Caption: A student, at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School, in her class t-shirt., Credit: Andrea Claire Maio / Series: Back to Your Senses
The James and Grace Lee Boggs School opened at the beginning of this school year. It’s a K-through-4 charter school on the near east side of Detroi...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 06:13
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Stephan Jost discusses how the Honolulu Museum of Art works to serve its military community. [25:56]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 26:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Here, the kids line up outside Congress on their first day., Credit: Credit Dustin Dwyer / Michigan Radio
For this special documentary, Dustin Dwyer spent six weeks in the fall following a group of third grade students at Congress Elementary in Grand Ra...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:31
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Where are you applying to school? Are you staying in-state? Have you written your essays?

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:21
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Up until she was a teenager, she lived in comfort. What she didn’t see coming was the moment when she lost everything. Find out why her world turne...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Horseback riding on Daphne
Listen to this fascinating interview with Mike Beck, singer, song writer, horseman, and volunteer contributor to the Joyful Horse Project. The Joyf...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 48:09
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:58
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Harvey Brooks is an electric bass player who came of age as a musician and a producer in New York in the early sixties. He played on Bob Dylan's ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 10:25
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A ten year old girl outruns her bully and grapples with the onset of adolesence...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lucia Martinez, Credit: Generation Justice
Lucia Martinez, 20, speaks about her personal experience of education equity. She speaks about real life stories of growing up and higher education...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 07:15
Caption: Joe Brewster & Michele Stephenson, San Francisco, CA 10/28/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster talk commitment, reflection, and unconscious racism.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2013
  • Length: 24:20
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This outspoken Colorado author is known around the world for many things. She is one of the top scientists in the humane livestock industry. A few ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 2
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This one-hour documentary takes an intimate look at the high school dropout crisis through the lives of three young people from California's Centra...

Bought by KALW, WITF, KZYX, WSKG, KALW and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Helping Others to Protect Themselves
A caller to my radio show "The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel and Control How You Feel" asked why the schools were not doing more to help his rela...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 19:43