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Practically Speaking: What's in a Name
From: Ayana Contreras
Series: Practically Speaking
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Are African-American parents that choose unique or African-sounding names putting their children at a disadvantage? Is society unduly prejudiced ag...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 10:22
  • Purchases: 1
A Black History Month Special Program: "Truckin' My Blues Away"
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
Caption: Little Freddie King, Credit: Barry Yeoman
Prime Time Radio presents "Truckin' My Blues Away," a music-rich documentary that profiles four Southern bluesmen and the folklorist who is working...

Bought by WJAB, KUPR low power FM, WEMU, WCNY, WEMU and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 54:23
  • Purchases: 30
A Tribute to Louis Armstrong (Part 2)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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Author Gary Giddins joins host Dick Golden to discuss Louis Armstrong's life in music. Many seminal Armstrong recordings are featured.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:36
A Tribute to Louis Armstrong (Part 1)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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Author Gary Giddins joins host Dick Golden to discuss Louis Armstrong's life in music. Many seminal Armstrong recordings are featured.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 1
A Tribute to Fats Waller (Part 2)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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A profile of jazz pioneer and celebrated composer Thomas "Fats" Waller.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 1
A Tribute to Fats Waller (Part 1)
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: GW Presents Beyond Category
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A profile of jazz pioneer and celebrated composer Thomas "Fats" Waller.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Children of Children Keep Coming
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Through story and song, author Russell Goings has adapted his epic poem “The Children of Children Keep Coming” into an hour-long spoken word perfor...

Bought by WVTF, WRKF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Allegheny Mountain Radio, WVIA and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2010
  • Length: 51:01
  • Purchases: 37
Savannah Music Festival LIVE Presents: Marcus Roberts
From: Savannah Music Festival LIVE
Series: Savannah Music Festival LIVE - Season Two
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The Savannah Music Festival's Associate Artistic Director Marcus Roberts is one of the most extraordinary jazz pianists of our time. This episode f...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KMUW, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KZYX, WFIU and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Paul Robeson: America's Sung Hero
From: Mark Lavonier
Caption: Paul Robeson
An exploration through the life and times of singer, activist, athlete and entertainer Paul Robeson.

Bought by WRVO Public Media and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 10, 2009
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 2
"Hard Times Harder In the Motor City" by S. Hulett
From: Michigan Radio Economy Special
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look the epicenter of the recession, and how this downturn compares with previous ones.

Bought by WCSU-FM and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 2
Savannah Music Festival LIVE Presents: The Clayton Brothers, Episode Two
From: Savannah Music Festival LIVE
Series: Savannah Music Festival LIVE - Season Two
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Part two of a two-hour show featuring the Clayton Brothers live at the 2009 Savannah Music Festival.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KMUW, KZYX, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Savannah Music Festival LIVE presents: The Clayton Brothers, Episode One
From: Savannah Music Festival LIVE
Series: Savannah Music Festival LIVE - Season Two
Caption: John and Jeff Clayton, Credit: Ayano Hisa
In 2009, brothers Jeff and John Clayton brought their band to the Savannah Music Festival to perform and to participate in Swing Central, SMF's ann...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KZYX, KMUW, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896 to 2009
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Keith Plessy, descendant of Homer Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, great, great grandaughter of Judge John Ferguson, both litigants in the 1896 Supreme ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)
From: Nancy Solomon
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This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...

Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 40
VOICES4theSoul Show 731
From: Lori Holladay
Caption: Eric Bibb
AAA music show featuring songs expressing a more meaningful side of life. This hour features an intmate chat with Eric Bibb.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
The Best of Corey Harris
From: Southwest Stages
Series: Southwest Stages
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This program contains an hour of the best of Corey Harris' music from four different performances. It features music recorded live at the 2000 and ...

Bought by North State Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2009
  • Length: 58:27
  • Purchases: 1
An Evening with Soulive
From: Southwest Stages
Series: Southwest Stages
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An Hour of Funk, Jam and Soul Music with Soulive with Special Guest Vocalist Toussant, recorded live in August of 2006 at the Telluride Jazz Celebr...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 29, 2009
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 1
An Evening with Koko Taylor
From: Southwest Stages
Series: Southwest Stages
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An hour of Music & Interviews with Koko Taylor, recorded live at the 2003 KBAC Summer Blast Music Festival in Santa Fe, NM.

Bought by KMUW, North State Public Radio, and KGOU


  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 3
Memories Of Michael Jackson's Music
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Young voices reflect on the late, great, King of Pop.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2009
  • Length: 02:39
Furious Flower
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Clifton on the cover of 'Wild Blessings'
Poet Lucille Clifton is widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, and spirituality.

Bought by WRNC-LP, KVSC, and CKMO


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Michael Jackson- Remix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: The King of Pop
A tribute mix to the "King of Pop" who changed and shocked the world over his short fifty years in front of us all.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2009
  • Length: 28:23
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
Bobby McFerrin talks to RADIJOJO
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Series: Across the Ocean - the first Transatlantic Radio for kids
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A while ago, Bobby McFerrin performed at the Berliner Philharmonic with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Well, that was something we just couldn't m...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 09:29
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
Why is Barack Obama Black?
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Whiteness and the co-creation of the ‘other’

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:04

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