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Welcome to “Unveiling the Ancestors,” a radio special that sheds light on who we are today by looking at WHO came before us. I'm your host, Anne Ho...
- Added: Nov 24, 2023
- Length: 53:10
A tribute to Harry Belafonte with music from his incredible career mixed with his own thoughts about his life and work
- Added: May 01, 2023
- Length: 01:58:01
A late-summer tribute mix of music, history and celebration featuring some of those who have left us--while striving to move the world towards a be...
- Added: Aug 21, 2022
- Length: 59:07
Queen Mother Imakhu's rendition of the African American folktale about a group of mystical enslaved Africans who escaped their oppression by regain...
- Added: Feb 05, 2022
- Length: 08:35
On this program we talk with Amde Hamilton of the Watts Prophets, who reads poems from his book Me Today, You Tomorrow, and recounts how out of the...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 58:29
Celebrating one of the founders of Rock ‘n Roll, Richard Penniman, better known as Little Richard with a mix of his music, interviews, covers and ...
Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and KHNS
- Added: May 17, 2020
- Length: 59:33
- Purchases: 3
Soulful mix for one of best singers ever---Aretha Franklin
- Added: Aug 16, 2018
- Length: 59:16
- Purchases: 2
Celebrating two radio legends who passed through Pacifica radio station WBAI in New York City in the seventies on their way to greater glory- I was...
- Added: Jan 21, 2018
- Length: 59:36
The retrospective of 2017 continues with mixes from Charlottesville to Washington with music and emotions from a turbulent year
Bought by KDUR
- Added: Dec 26, 2017
- Length: 01:00:03
- Purchases: 1
A thirty minute tribute to one of the founders of rock & roll- Antoine "Fats" Domino, featuring some of his classic recordings, interviews and actu...
- Added: Oct 27, 2017
- Length: 28:52
1st segment: Pepe Willie (the man who discovered Prince) is interviewed. 2nd Segment: Chris Moon (the man who gave the keys to his studio) is inte...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 06, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
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
This is a story that begs to be told. It’s long overdue.
The year was 1919. The place: Phillips County, Arkansas.
What became a watershed moment i...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
In his new book, professor Lawrence Blum provides insight into a rigorous high school course on race and racism.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
The legend of musician Buddy Bolden has stretched well beyond the city limits of New Orleans. Whether or not half of the stories are true, really d...
Bought by WRGY and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2012
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 2
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
"The 47% Mix" with Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Ethel Waters, Ry Cooder, Menomena, The Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby, Alan Price, a...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 19:31
- Purchases: 1
He was a master ”Tickler”. Stride piano is the term attached later to a specific rhythmic style where the left hand follows the pattern of the rig...
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 58:54
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 14:46
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 58:52
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
Here is one of the overlooked jazz pianists who, if he's lived beyond his 30-years, would rank with Early Hines and Count Basie. Very little is kn...
- Added: Jun 09, 2012
- Length: 01:01:02
A collection of sounds and voices from William Devine Golf course, one of America's oldest public courses, located in inner-city Boston in the hear...
- Added: May 16, 2012
- Length: 01:55
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
