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Caption: Benny Moton Orchestra
Kansas City developed a unique style of jazz in the 1920s. Musicians borrowed heavily from blues and ragtime. In the process, the band leaders deve...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gregory Mitchell
“Zombie Statistics” is what professor Gregory Mitchell calls them. Those are the chunks of data officials use to prove there is a rise in sex-traff...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ethel Waters
Before there can be a singer there has to be a lyricist. Fortunately, the 1920s were rich in the number of creative wordsmiths. Not to mention the...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Davey on The Red Jacket Jamboree, Credit: Nate Bett
Join the cast of The Red Jacket Jamboree and guests: singer-songwriter John Davey and author T.Marie Bertineau for a special that explores the myth...

Bought by Southern Branch Bluegrass and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed, Credit: Naima Wolfe
Director of Communications for the Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society in Athens Ohio Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed talks about repurposing a vacan...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WSLR, RADIOLEX, KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Edythe Turnham's Band
: Jazz emphasized improvisation and individual expression. It became a symbol of freedom and rebellion. Especially for the young. The fact that it...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ed Burmila
The Democrats have lost their footing since the New Deal. That’s how Ed Burmila sees it. Now, he says, they haven’t been able to grasp that they ne...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Young Angela
Angela Lansbury in her own words with music from her entire career from Gaslight through Murder She Wrote--All Mixed Up

  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:06
Caption: Lang & Johnson
One entry into the field of jazz that is frequently overlooked is the guitar. It belonged in the rhythm section. That is until Eddie Lang and a few...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: WRK
The group went by quite a number of different names, but the one they were best know for was The Washboard Rhythm Kings. They were, by far, the mos...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in January 2020 at a supporter’s home in Denver, Colorado., Credit: Leslie Ginsburg
With crucial midterm elections underway, how can individuals make an impact? “Paul for Pete” author Paul Mason Barnes, a key volunteer on Pete Butt...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Amalia Ortiz , Credit:  Ned Meneses
Performance poet and theater arts director Amalia Ortiz discusses her work at SAY Sí, her own award-wining art, and the intersection between the two.

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: John R. Vile, Credit: newschannel5
The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from adopting any laws tending to the establishment religion. Even with that definitive ve...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Quality Serenaders
Almost completely forgotten today is a little known band based in Los Angeles in 1929 & ’30. Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders recorded a dozen titl...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil Allen, Jr.
This program is a second in a conversation with author Phil Allen, Jr., in which he highlights the prophetic potential of the camera. Its imagery p...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Reb Spike & his Pods of Pepper
A few musicians made the upper echelons of jazz in the 1920s. But, for every one at the top, there are hundreds of talented performers who only rec...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Eva Enciñias, Credit: Courtesy of NIF
Flamenco Artist and 2022 National Heritage Fellow Eva Enciñias has spent her life to elevating flamenco while weaving it into the fabric of communi...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Thomas Geoghengan
End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this, and a little bit more, says labor lawyer and former candidate for A...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Eddie Condon
They were a team in 1928 when times were good, and reunited in 1938 at the peak of the depression. They were known as the Footwarmers and the Windy...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David Serkin Ludwig
David Serkin Ludwig talks about his life in music both as a composer and as an educator dedicated to new music and expanding the music community

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Eleanor Herman
Wherever you look in history, you’ll find misogyny. It’s equally rampant in the rumors surrounding Cleopatra during her reign and Kamala Harris bef...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Adrian Rollini
When Adrian Rollini introduced the bass saxophone to the front line instruments, several other reed artists were inspired to follow suit. The big d...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil Allen, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Darnella Frazier captured images of injustice for the world to see. Like a professional cinematographer, King understoo...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Community Farm, Credit: Courtesy of Sipp Culture
Carlton Turner talks about the work of Sipp Culture which uses story to uncover and support cultural and economic development in Utica, Mississippi.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Adelaide Hall
There was no roadmap to success for the Early instrumentalists and vocalists in jazz. They were in untested waters and out on a limb. Nevertheless,...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1