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How jazz influenced the fight for racial equity.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNCU, WUTC, and Morton College Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:39:38
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Lieutenant James Reese Europe, Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Lieutenant James Reese Europe" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1917.
Ebony Classics - A Classic Exposure features the music of people of color in the Classical music industry.

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 1
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A musical history of the "Prince of Motown Marvin" Gaye is the subject of this program.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 56:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Explore what it looks like to fragment a forest, to drain a river, and to make a city unsafe for the humans that live there. Travel from the Black ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 44:41
  • Purchases: 2
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A doctoral student in education seeks to discover solutions to health inequities in the St. Louis region and beyond.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 12:15
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
Caption: Cedric Burnside
The Cedric Burnside Project and Big George Brock, in concert at The Philadelphia Folk Festival

Bought by WNMU-FM, WHRV, WMHT, and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Remastered 78s of Illinois Jacquet on The Jazz-O-Rama , Credit: Lorie Kellogg
The sounds of classic remastered 78 RPM records fill the air when the music of Illinois Jacquet is presented on the 31th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: King Curtis
This is a one hour musical program on the legacy of saxophonist KING CURTIS.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WJAB, and WVAS


  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:16
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: 1995 32 cents Commemorative stamp, Credit: U.S. Postal Stamps
CHARLIE PARKER was one of the most influential improvising soloists in JAZZ, and a central figure in the development of BOP in the 1940s. A legenda...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2012
  • Length: 50:43
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: Host/Producer, Credit: Steve Edwards
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
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This is a music program honoring the history of the African American soldier through song. The program includes three individual sets, and includ...

Bought by WCVE, WEMU, WJAB, WJSU, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2012
  • Length: 50:18
  • Purchases: 8
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A visit to the home of Mardi Gras Indian Chief Mr. Ike

  • Added: Jun 06, 2008
  • Length: 04:46
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A segment of the podcast series on successful business models in Africa.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 09:13
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Sussana Anthony Roberts, Solomon Pieters, and the Push for Personal and Economic Freedom (1664-1712)

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Eleven Africans and the Survival of the New Netherlands Colony (1624-1664)

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Respecting Diversity looks at the influence of culture, race and religion on dying; how the assumptions behind "good end-of-life care" do not nece...

Bought by KMXT, WETA, Audible, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KALW


  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:45
  • Purchases: 5