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Connecting with our ancestors through dreaming, an interview with Dr. Stephanie R. Burns. We can choose to communicate only with benevolent ancesto...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 53:32
Caption: Cover of the book, "America's Black Capital", Credit: Hachette Book Group
On this week's episode, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar about his latest book, “America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Ruby Amanfu shares her unbeatable spirit in an episode that covers the full range of her artistic output and depth of her listening habits. Join he...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Leading lady Tank (Tarriona Ball) of the two-time GRAMMY nominees, Tank and the Bangas, chats with host Beane (American Idol) about her childhood, ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Katherine of The Dream Journal speaks with Akinke Lucas about dreaming ourselves whole. Ancestral dreaming involves learning how to distinguish bet...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:52
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Connecting with our ancestors. Our guest Stephanie R. Burns starts by describing her all-inclusive view of ancestors which is far vaster than our b...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:37
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Urban beekeeping is forging new paths in Detroit. Nicole Lindsey and Timothy Paule Jackson of Detroit Hives are generating a lot of buzz working to...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and WFHB


  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The fight over what can and can’t be taught in schools is shaping up to be one of the most controversial issues in a pivotal mid-term election year...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Meet the youngest guest of The Rough Draft Diaries, 9-year-old Leila and her non-profit Leila's Promise. An organization that looks to empower and ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: This pencil and watercolor by Lt. Francis Meynell shows Africans liberated by the British Navy. The Albanez (erroneously identified as Albaroz in the National Maritime Museum catalog) was a Brazilian vessel, captured by the Royal Navy ship, Albatross, off, Credit: Image is in the public domain. Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International.
What were thought to be the remains of America's last slave ship--the Clotilda--were unearthed on a muddy river bank in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta in ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
Caption: Aldon D. Morris
Before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, he had to announce the death of W.E.B. Du Bois. The crowd fell into tears.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on Culture Clique we air part one of "What's Race Got to do With It" Media Management of Minority Images, with Bryant K. Smith. The purpose o...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:20
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In honor of Independence Day, a former radio DJ joins us to play a selection of patriotic songs sung by African Americans. (And more...)

Bought by KZYX, WJCT, WVAS, WNMU-FM, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 11
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This stirring hour show of American music and literature begins with patriotic musical performances by the likes of Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, ...

Bought by WVTF, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KHNS, WUTC, WVTF and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 38
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This Poetry Month: We celebrate the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, wo...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVMR, KENW, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Rasul Mowatt and Jacinda Townsend to discuss why Martin Luther King, Jr. has been remembered and elevated to represent...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 56:50
Caption: Professor Robin Bernstein
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This week our writers grapple with the colors that separate, whether black, brown, or white. Stories by Tyler Thompson, Leslie Epps, and Jennifer M...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Radio Curious visits with Randall Kennedy, author of "The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency," and "Nigger:The...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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This show features the work of younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha...

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  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Steve Lopez and Angela Elam at the Kansas City Public Library, Credit: Tyler Allen, U News
L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez became immortalized on the silver screen when Robert Downey, Jr., portrayed him in the 2009 movie THE SOLOIST, bas...

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  • Length: 29:00
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Changing our place in the world, through philosophy and math skills.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2010
  • Length: 29:01