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A Century before Rosa Parks !
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: OCTOBER 2014
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Author Sam Roberts reads about a civil rights pioneer indeed, from his new book. Another example of our daily 100-second show -- great for top-of-t...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
"Slavery's Exiles: The Story of American Maroons"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN THIS EDITION OF THE CUTTING EDGE, WE BRING YOU A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HISTORIAN ERIC FONER AND SYLVIAN DIOUF, AUTHOR OF “SLAVERY’S EXILES: THE STORY...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:56
African American Voices
From: Daniel Gilliam
Caption: Leontyne Price, Credit: Carl Van Vechten
Fifteen, 3-minute vignettes celebrating the contributions of African Americans in classical music.

Bought by Texas Public Radio, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM, Texas Public Radio, Vermont Public, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 45:00
  • Purchases: 10
Afrika Bambaataa: Renegade of Funk
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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Musician and legendary innovator, Afrika Bambaataa, discusses the origin and legacy of hip-hop. [13:35]

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
MLK: Three Landmark Speeches
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Three key speeches of American civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King Junior are excerpted and commented on by two lea...

Bought by KALW, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 33
Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio (Two Hour Special)
From: Mighty Writers
Series: Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio
Caption: Legendary Philadelphia disc jockey Georgie Woods, Credit: Temple Urban Archives
Starting in the 1950s, Black radio stations around the country became the pulse of African-American communities, and served as their megaphone duri...

Bought by WHYY, WHCP-LP Cambridge, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WOMR, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 46
The Writ Writer - part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Caption: Scipio A. Jones, Credit: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
In the final episode, the NAACP begins efforts to fight the death sentences handed down in Helena, led in part by Scipio Africanus Jones, the leadi...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Taj Mahal Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
Florida Folk and the Tales They Do
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Audio Storytelling
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Phyllis McEwen and Bob Devin-Jones bring to life African-American folktales and songs that Zora Neale Hurston collected in Florida in the 1930s.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 39:38
  • Purchases: 1
Confronting the Middle Passage
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
Caption: Brooks of Liverpool, 1789, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Dr. Sowande' Mustakeem reveals the forgotten world of 18th century slave ships, sharing the story of one enslaved woman and discussing why it's so ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 11:31
  • Purchases: 1
Notes from No Man's Land
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
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Essayist Ula Biss, author of Notes from No Man's Land, offers candid reflections on the role of race in her own life and in American history.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Legacy of Massive Resistance (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. Now, fo...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, WFHB, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
The Legacy of Massive Resistance (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
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When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. Now, fo...

Bought by WNYC, WRIR, WVAS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WJAB and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 10
Coleman Hawkins
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins was known as "Hawk" or "Bean" among his contemporaries because of his keen intellect and ingenious approach to common tunes. He was...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Recalling Mandela (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Nelson Mandela's life and times are recalled in conversation with radio documentarian Joe Richman who researched Mandela's story for a major 2004 d...

Bought by KZYX, Radio Catskill, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WNMU-FM, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Recalling Mandela (Peace Talks Radio) [59:00 / 54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Nelson Mandela's life and times are recalled in conversation with radio documentarian Joe Richman who researched Mandela's story for a major 2004 d...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, global24radio, KDNK, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:41
  • Purchases: 10
Charles McDew "We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For" - Part Two
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Previously on Culture Clique, we featured Charles McDew's talk "We Are the People We Have Been Waiting For" as presented at Winona State University...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 15:07
  • Purchases: 1
Charles McDew "We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For" - Part One
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 at Winona State University, Charles McDew, former chairman of The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (from 19...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 50:57
  • Purchases: 1
Dizzy Gillespie
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Dizzy Gillespie
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe explores what Gillespie's legacy can teach us about the revolutionary aspect of humor, and how we can live...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
How Richie Havens Started Woodstock (5:20)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Richie Havens
Folk singing legend Richie Havens died Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at the age of 72 of a sudden heart attack. In this excerpt from the documentary Ba...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
A Jazz-O-Rama New Year
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Christmas Programming
Caption: HAPPY, NEW or YEAR 78s on Jazz-O-Rama, Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
"Happy Days Are Here Again", "I Found a New Baby" and "This Year's Kisses" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 25th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz...

Bought by WCBE, WVAS, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 57:45
  • Purchases: 3
Jazz-O-Rama #20: "Kansas City Swing"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
Caption: Joe Bev hosts an hour of Kansas City swing 78s., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
"Cherokee", "One O'clock Jump" and "Kansas City Farewell" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 20th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 3
Full-Time Blues Radio 1309 - Blues Hall of Fame
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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On this special episode we will hear music from all of the artists, albums and singles in the 2013 class of the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame!

Bought by Radio New Zealand, WSLR, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
All Mixed Up with Martin Luther King Jr.
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: MLK Jr-Washington,DC 1963
A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr and the historic March on Washington that took place in August 1963, with new mixes featuring Israel Kamakaw...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Prairie Public, KVMR, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:43
  • Purchases: 26
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Michelle Alexander, Associate Law Professor at Moritz School of Law and Author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." , Credit: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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