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THE DROP OUT DILEMMA IS SPECIAL CONVERSATION ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN THE ROCHESTER AREA. THE WXXI NEWS TEAM HAS BEEN TAKING AN IN-DEPT...
Bought by NPR Illinois
- Added: Aug 22, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
A high school student and recent graduate detail their struggles staying in school and what pushed them to persevere.
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 42:54
To be black and male in America carries with it a certain baggage. Two out of three black male students in Rochester are failing to graduate. "Need...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 27:10
Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
Born in New Orleans in 1902, Omer Simeon is the least known of the early clarinetist of the 1920s. He was apparently very quite and reserved, didn...
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 58:58
This edition continues to display the best soul music on the planet with musical tributes to the late Donna Summer and Washington DC`s godfather of...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 01:58:49
While teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Associate Professor of Education Meira Levinson realized that her students’ were gong to h...
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 27:51
No one questions the fact that Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton was, in all likelihood, the first arranger of jazz. It’s also true that Jelly Roll was...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 58:58
A Twist of Soul , Funk and Civil Rights is the story of Edition 6 of The Steve Edwards Soul Show. It is a musical tribute the the artists that laid...
- Added: Apr 05, 2012
- Length: 59:02
Art Stewart Motown producer and engineer. Art worked with the
crème of the Motown artists and producers.
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 32:13
Two legendary figures in early jazz: Johnny Dodds and Tiny Parham. They were at the center of the evolving new music of the 1920s, and contributed ...
- Added: Mar 03, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Blues, jazz and folk music of the 1920s and '30s featuring the guitar, piano, violin and more.
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 59:00
This is a music program honoring the history of the African American soldier through song.
The program includes three individual sets, and includ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2012
- Length: 50:18
- Purchases: 8
We remember the remarkable life and amazing career of one of the greatest female performers in music history, the legendary Miss Etta James, who pa...
Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 24, 2012
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
With the closure of Storyville in New Orleans, many talented musicians landed in Memphis before making their way to Chicago and New York.
- Added: Jan 18, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Cobi is a Dutch nurse liiving and working in a South African township. She helps orphans getting over their Aids HIV stigma and against the violenc...
- Added: Jan 11, 2012
- Length: 10:38
New Orleans musician who's work had a profound effect on the early development of jazz.
- Added: Jan 05, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger Fletcher Henderson is little remembered today in spite of the fact he set the foundation for the corners...
- Added: Dec 18, 2011
- Length: 58:58
On this edition, author and political science professor Melissa Harris-Perry speaks about the stereotypes black women face, the resulting impacts o...
Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WCPN, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, KHNS and more
- Added: Dec 16, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
Immaculée Ilibagiza was one of sixteen women that survived the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. Listen to her story of survival and how it's changed her li...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 30:34
- Purchases: 1
We remember Hubert Sumlin, legendary guitarist and long-time sideman for Howlin' Wolf, passed away at the age of 80 on December 4, 2011.
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 02:30
A half-hour radio documentary that examines the history and culture of a New Mexico border town. The piece explores issues of inter-ethnic relation...
- Added: Sep 21, 2011
- Length: 29:00
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 29:59
Author T.J. English looks at NYC in the late 60's and 70's and the tense relationship created between the police and NYC's growing communities of c...
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 52:09
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
