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NL 24-07: Suite History: Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey, 2/12/2024

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Echoes of a Coup

From: Scene on Radio

One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, WYPR, WFDD and more

It's Time! Max Roach In The 1960s

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

A centennial tribute to Max Roach, who set the pace for modern jazz drumming and became an outspoken activist for civil rights.

Bought by WSKG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUAT and more

Unveiling The Ancestors

From: Anne Hoffman

Welcome to “Unveiling the Ancestors,” a radio special that sheds light on who we are today by looking at WHO came before us. I'm your host, Anne Ho...

Calamity in Philadelphia

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.

Digging Into Broadway's Black History

From: Garrett Stack
Series: Broadway Bound

Black Americans have been major stars of the musical theater since 1906. Who was the first black Broadway star? What was the first all-black musica...

Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.

NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more

NL 22-36: Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, 8/29/2022

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...

All Mixed Up:Tributes & Celebrations

From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up

Caption: Black Power, Credit: Bill Russell RIP

A late-summer tribute mix of music, history and celebration featuring some of those who have left us--while striving to move the world towards a be...

The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more

Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Single Hour Version)

From: Paul Ingles

A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...

Bought by WJCT, KUHF, WABE, WVIA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Hour 2 of 2)

From: Paul Ingles

Caption: Mavis Staples, Credit: Michael Ochs Archives

Hour 2 of a music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 194...

Bought by KRVS, WDDE, WVIA, WPVM 103.7, WILL and more

Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington’s Early Black-Pride Music

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, Ellington was writing music that celebrated African-American culture, personalities,...

Bought by WJCT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTXK and more

NL 22-06: Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes, 1/31/2022

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus and others.

1963: A Man's Dream, A Nation's Nightmare

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

An hour-long jazz special: It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing uneas...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WWNO, WRGY, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more

Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Buffalo NY: Grappling with Gentrification in one of America’s Most Unequal Cities

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

NL 20-25: The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree, 6/15/2020

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

A jazz tribute to Juneteenth, the African-American holiday marking the end of slavery, with music from Paul Robeson and Count Basie, John Coltrane,...

Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

The Ranger's Life

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

What does it mean to be a ranger? It means you are married to the mission, a soldier for your planetary home, armed with a moral compass and a Smok...

Bought by KFCF FM

Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

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

New Pine Valley Restaurant

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

Dr. Martin Luther King, I waited on him. He had ham and egg and hash browns.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

Prisoners of War

From: Radio Diaries

During the war in Vietnam, there was a notorious American military prison on the outskirts of Saigon called Long Binh Jail. But LBJ wasn’t for capt...

Bought by PRX Remix

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