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Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects

From: The Kitchen Sisters

Perfect for Women's History Month programming. "Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects," a new special from The Kitchen Sisters, h...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM, WILL, KALW, WRGY, WKSU and more

Leaveil Degree of The Whispers: You Want That Relationship To Be Stronger in Time

From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues

Time - Leaveil Degree is a member of The Whispers. The group scored 15 top-ten R&B singles, and eight top-ten R&B albums, with two of them, "The Wh...

Episode 22: Prairie Warbler

From: Criminal
Series: This is Love

When Drew Lanham was a child, he used to lie down in a field and play dead, just so he could get a glimpse of vultures flying over him. He made bin...

COVID19 Stories with Charles McGuigan: Feeding the Hungry with Carlton Johnson

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: COVID-19 Stories

There’s a man in a small city thirty miles south of Richmond Virginia whose business was pretty much wiped out by the Coronavirus pandemic. But des...

I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is ...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCMJ Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR

S3: Nique Love Rhodes #79

From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise

Nique Love Rhodes We have a social entrepreneur of a different kind, she is a rapper! You will have an opportunity to learn how the social and bus...

Repast (Gravy Ep. 46)

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

Caption: Justin Hopkins performing the role of Booker Wright in "Repast." , Credit: Photo by Brandall Atkinson.

One spring day in 1965, a waiter in Greenwood, Mississippi gave an interview for an NBC television documentary. What he said has made him an unlike...

Bought by KVLU

Muhammad Ali As Conscientious Objector

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.

In this excerpt from the Peace Talks Radio series, learn about the history of Conscientious Objectors in the U.S. and the high profile role that th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRGY

USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor Leonard Brown

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Leonard Brown, USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor, aA native of Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover community, Leonard Brown (b.1934) reflects o...

Fighting for the Promised Land: A Story of Farming and Racism (Gravy Ep. 29)

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

Caption: Shirley Sherrod on the porch of the antebellum mansion at Resora Plantation , Credit: Photo by Tina Antolini.

Shirley Sherrod’s introduction to the intermingling of agriculture and racism came when she was 17 years old, with an incident that changed the cou...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WJCT, WABE, and KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA

Detroit As Backdrop For Shakespeare

From: Rendered

Caption: Shakespeare In Detroit's Romeo & Juliet, Credit: courtesy of Shakespeare in Detroit

Sam White saw potential in the drama of a struggling city — a perfect setting for Shakespeare's plays.

The Jemima Code (Gravy Ep. 6)

From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast

Caption: Toni Tipton Martin making hot rolls.

There’s a whole lot more than recipes in Toni Tipton Martin’s cookbook collection… It contains a surprising culinary history of African Americans i...

Bought by KVLU, WBHM, WABE, and PRX Remix

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

How Richie Havens Started Woodstock (5:20)

From: Paul Ingles

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...

Part 2 - Hip-hop Artist One Be Lo: What Does it Mean to be "American"

From: Noah Chandler
Series: Imagine 2050 Podcast

Interview with indie hip-hop artist, One Be Lo.

A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood: A Musical Journey in the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

From: WQXR

In this hour-long special from WQXR and WNYC, host Terrance McKnight interweaves musical examples with Dr. King's own speeches and sermons to illus...

Bought by WVIK, WXPR, New Hampshire Public Radio, WFIU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more

My Favorite Things at 60

From: Robin Washington

March 2021 is the 60th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane's definitive jazz work "My Favorite Things." Winner of the National Association...

Bought by KBEM, RadioFreePalmer, KSFR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more

The Black Experience

From: West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Dr. Della Taylor Hardman made it her mission to talk to influential and promising African Americans inside and outside of West Virginia. Her interv...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WDDE, WJAB, KWMR, WEMU and more

Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Marshall had already earned a place in histor...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, WMUU-LP, WFAE, KALW and more

Say It Plain: A Century of African American Oratory

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

For generations, African American orators have been demanding justice and equality, reminding America to make good on its founding principles of de...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio, KLCC, WGTE Public Media and more

Lady E: Twice A Child

From: Charles McGuigan

Lady E sings the blues and she knows what she's singing about. Fifteen years ago, her oldest son died. It was sudden, and a freakish accident. Lady...