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2020-10-09 A Feminist Climate Renaissance
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation, replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time of n...

Bought by WWNO, WDSE, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
How can Philanthropy help bring a silver lining during the dark cloud of Covid-19 ?
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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How can Philanthropy help bring a silver lining during the dark cloud of Covid-19 ? With Elizabeth Barbella President of The Community Foundation M...

Bought by WCNY and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
2020-08-28 Climate Change Through the Artists Eyes with Alonzo King
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Can art help us process our changing climate? The story of climate change is typically told in the language of facts and figures, graphs and charts...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
200828: Climate Change Through the Artists Eyes with Alonzo King, 8/28/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Can art help us process our changing climate? The story of climate change is typically told in the language of facts and figures, graphs and charts...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:57
Political Songs for Pandemic Times
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 813 (Air Dates: July 27 - Aug 2, 2020) Today we present a special edition of Art of the Song featuring Political Songs for Pandemic Times. We ...

Bought by WMPG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KZMU Moab Community Radio, KNBA, WHRV and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
2020-07-03 Real Talk: Racism and Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The national uprising ignited by the murder of George Floyd has cast a spotlight on the country’s embedded, institutional racism, including the fra...

Bought by MPR News Stations, KCBX, WAMU, WHYY, WUTC and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 13
Rhythm Atlas 139 2020-06-13 Black Voices of Protest from Around the World
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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June is African-American Music Appreciation Month - originally proclaimed as Black Music Month by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. We’ll expand on t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, celebrating an American holiday marking the formal end of slavery.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
NL 20-25: The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree, 6/15/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A jazz tribute to Juneteenth, the African-American holiday marking the end of slavery, with music from Paul Robeson and Count Basie, John Coltrane,...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
NL 20-13: Ella '57: Ella Fitzgerald Flies High, 3/23/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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We take a look at Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, one of the singer's busiest and most memorable years on record.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:04
Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the inf...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Pursuit of Happiness with Ricky Williams NFL Football Immortal and CBD Wellness Mogul
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Pursuit of Happiness with Ricky Williams NFL Football Immortal and CBD Wellness Mogul. What happens when Two-time All-American, Heisman Trophy...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 03/12/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Fighting slavery worldwide - In this edition: Millions of people are forced to toil in forms of modern slavery across the ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Inaugural Kansas City 18th & Vine Poet Laureate Glenn North
From: New Letters on the Air
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New Letters on the Air features Glenn North, the inaugural Poet Laureate of the 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District. This Cave Canem fellow shares...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
James Alan McPherson: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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Black History Month concludes with the Past American Voice of essayist and fiction writer James Alan McPherson (1943-2016). In this archive recordi...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
NL 18-08: Say It Loud: Black-Pride Soul Jazz, 2/19/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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As the black-pride movement gained momentum in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an increasing number of jazz artists began to incorporate the messag...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
Former Mississippi Poet Laureate & Two Term US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...

Bought by WNJR and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Documentarian Katherine King and The Hantam Community Education Trust (HCET), Eradicating Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) starting with South Africa
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Hantam Community Education Trust, Eradicating Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) starting with South Africa. Katherine King Documentarian joins us f...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 2
NL 17-41: From Man To Myth: Thelonious Monk, Part 1, 10/2/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A look at the pianist and composer's early life and career, including an interview with Monk biographer Robin D.G. Kelley.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
NL 17-32: It’s All in the Game: Louis Armstrong, 1947-57, 7/31/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A program about Louis Armstrong’s mid-career years, in which he led the small-group All-Stars, scored chart hits with pop ballads, and became a Col...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Thelonious Monk: From Myth to Man (Part 2)
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, presenting the second of a two-part program exploring the life and music of Thelonious Monk, with special gue...

Bought by KMUW, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Thelonious Monk: From Man to Myth (Part 1)
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hourlong program of classic jazz, presenting the first of a two-part program exploring the life and music of Thelonious Monk, with special guest...

Bought by KMUW, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
Portraits of Harlem
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring musical tributes to the so-called “Black Metropolis,” including Duke Ellington’s “Harlem,” Roy Eldr...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, 90.5 WSNC, WUCF, and WCPN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
The Birth of Cool Songbook
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hourlong program of classic jazz, exploring a collection of influential jazz material know as "The Birth of the Cool" recorded by a circle of mu...

Bought by Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black History Special! "Hughes' Blues: The Langston Hughes Songbook"
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program featuring performances of songs with lyrics by author Langston Hughes, including recordings by Nina Simone, June Christy, Jame...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KVNF, WCPN, WMOT, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11