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Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 1
Interview with indie hip-hop artist, One Be Lo.
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:15
The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.
- Added: Feb 13, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 4
Singer, songwriter, pianist, singer and vaudeville and minstrel performer Perry Bradford, forever changed the sound of American popular music by co...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 1
Cladys "Jabbo" Smith is one of the finest exponents of early jazz trumpet, yet he is overshadowed by Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and many oth...
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 2
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
Jody and Susie Edwards were apparently married on stage at the Standard Theatre, Philadelphia. They went on perform for several decades billing th...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Bandleader Andy Kirk gave up his post office carrier in 1925 to try his hand in music. He showed talent on the saxophone and tuba, but it evolved t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
This week it's our monthly series The Tin Roof Project, where well-known Southerners bring their own true stories to life. This month's Tin Roofer ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week our writers grapple with the colors that separate, whether black, brown, or white. Stories by Tyler Thompson, Leslie Epps, and Jennifer M...
- Added: Aug 25, 2012
- Length: 29:00
In this conversation, Juanita Brown wanted to go beyond the hype that President Obama's election marked "the end of history" in American race relat...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 38:28
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 44:14
A bio of the single best disco artist, who changed performance forever, Sylvester.
- Added: May 26, 2012
- Length: 18:13
While teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Associate Professor of Education Meira Levinson realized that her students’ were gong to h...
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 27:51
A review of the Rwandan genocide drama.
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 01:59
A bell tower that has been mute for 70 years at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia is about to get a voice thanks to Diane Watkins.
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 55:55
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker were the most recognizable expatriates on the Parisian seen in the 1920s. If you've seen the movie "Midnight in P...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 58:59
A well-meaning illustration in a children's book sparks controversy over segregation in the nation's capital in the 1930s.
Bought by Listenwise, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 07:41
- Purchases: 3
With the closure of Storyville in New Orleans, many talented musicians landed in Memphis before making their way to Chicago and New York.
- Added: Jan 18, 2012
- Length: 58:59
New Orleans musician who's work had a profound effect on the early development of jazz.
- Added: Jan 05, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 19:53
Lady E tells me that some nights when she’s finished singing and returns to her apartment and is having trouble with the zipper on her dress, she’l...
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 56:36
Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 22, 2011
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
What happens when Africa and the Caribbean culinarily collide in the U.S. capital? Dig in and find out!
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 04:46