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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month". John Biggers

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month". Bessie Coleman

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month". Barbara Jordan

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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Over 14,000 patrons have signed up for their first library card since Jay-Z's exhibit came to Central Library in mid-July. We talk to Brooklynites ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 07:49
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Fifteen years ago this month, on April 6, 2006, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison spoke to a crowded lecture hall on the campus of the University of...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 21:01
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Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
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The popular notion that Jamaica developed its early ska and reggae musics by listening to high powered New Orleans radio stations doesn't give cred...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 43:39
Caption: a band called death
Recently at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, Ayana Contreras caught a documentary about Death, a 1970s all-black proto-punk band out of Detroit. The do...

Bought by WFHB and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 2
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This reading is a passage describing two giraffes seen in crates on a ship bound for Germany.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:49
Caption: Africa's first canopy ropewalk at Kakum National Park, Credit: Kelly Ramundo
Ghana has long been a special place for the African American diaspora. For many, "roots tourism" is a rite of passage. But in the early 90s, the We...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Dec 14, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mr. Jones on the course, Credit: Mason Sand
A collection of sounds and voices from William Devine Golf course, one of America's oldest public courses, located in inner-city Boston in the hear...

  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
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The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. Here presented is the life and times of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave wh...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2010
  • Length: 49:49
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The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. In this program, we hear the history of the first North African to set foot in ...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 14, 2010
  • Length: 47:27
  • Purchases: 1
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The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. Recounted in this installment is the life, times, and legacy of Phillis Wheatle...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 47:29
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The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. Remembering: Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Estaban, Phillis Wheatley, Bill Pic...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2010
  • Length: 37:38