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The FRFF is a festival held around Winona that features a variety of documentary films. Though these films vary in message, topic, and substance th...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 31:15
The official radio companion to the film, "Take Me To the River New Orleans." The Story of of NOLA's diverse music culture told through a series o...
Bought by KPSQ-LP, WYSO, KALW, and Harford Community Radio
- Added: Mar 22, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...
Bought by KDNK, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN
- Added: Oct 21, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
The little girl who went to school with federal marshals as escorts has something to say about what she went through and what we are going through ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:02:02
Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ first major retrospective, “All Things Being Equal” is open at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Thomas’s work addresses the on...
- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 05:29
How does historical wellness play out in race and gender? Tune in to learn about historical wellness and its relation to a Black student’s and Bla...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 59:01
How does historical wellness play out in race and gender? Tune in to learn about historical wellness and its relation to a Black student’s and Bla...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 58:06
We asked members of Tucson's black community to share insight on topics related to their blackness.
A series of short segments designed for broadca...
- Added: Jan 17, 2020
- Length: 14:29
Dianne Reeves sings "Dreams" with Robert Glasper, steps into Ella's shoes, and knows Today Will Be a Good Day.
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 8
The popular notion that Jamaica developed its early ska and reggae musics by listening to high powered New Orleans radio stations doesn't give cred...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 43:39
Lenzy R. Wallace Jr., PH.D., an African American, has had three successful careers, succeeding despite the odds. At 90 years old and actively retir...
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 39:01
Four years after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he became president of South Africa. And yet, those 4 years were among the bloodiest and ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KHSU and more
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 17:44
- Purchases: 7
More than 50 years ago, America’s most prolific composer, Duke Ellington, collaborated with bassist Charlie Mingus and drummer Max Roach to produce...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:59:01
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
The Cedric Burnside Project and Big George Brock, in concert at The Philadelphia Folk Festival
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 4
In this Cutting Edge Special, some of the work of late poet Louis Reyes is highlighted through live performances at WBAI and his show "Perspective"
- Added: Apr 25, 2012
- Length: 01:00:03
The Cutting Edge looks at the life of the Emmy award-winning journalist, Gil Noble- considered as America's best known and most influential African...
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 01:00:11
"Well, growing up in Detroit I was exposed to a lot of different music, a lot of different cultures at a very young age without ever having to leav...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 6
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
How could anybody be blind to the fact that, underneath it all, we’re all just shadows?
- Added: Oct 05, 2010
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 3
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
This 55 min piece features excerpts from a Feb.24th tribute to folk singer Odetta at the Riverside Church in NYC. Performing artists include Pete S...
Bought by KMUW, Prairie Public, WSLR, Marfa Public Radio, WNMU-FM and more
- Added: Feb 26, 2009
- Length: 55:21
- Purchases: 6
One-hour documentary **UPDATED for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Bought by WVAS, WMNF, WRVO Public Media, KMUN, KWIT and more
- Added: Aug 26, 2008
- Length: 55:36
- Purchases: 8
