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  1. An interview with the authors of "Our America"
    An interview with the authors of "Our America"

    with Lloyd Newman and LeAlan Jones on Jun 26, 1997

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Lloyd Newman was a teenager when he and his best friend, LeAlan Jones, set out to tape-record interviews with family, friends, and neighbors in the Ida B. Wells project, where both boys were longtime residents. The teenagers worked under the guidance of independent radio documentarian David Isay, who hoped to shape their audio diaries into authentic sound portraits of childhood life in poverty. Together the team produced two documentaries, which aired on NPR’s “All Things Considered”. They then revisited the original tapes and wrote “Our America”.

Newman has shared with Jones and Isay the considerable awards that were given to the two documentaries, including the Livingston Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, and the grand prize from the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, which was a first for a radio program.

Source: Wikipedia http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/tml/workshop8/authors3.html