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A stirring collection of patriotic music performed throughout U.S.
history by African Americans, sometimes in the face of public
hostility. Also, s...
- Added: Jun 21, 2014
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 4
A stirring collection of patriotic music performed throughout U.S.
history by African Americans, sometimes in the face of public hostility. Also, s...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WUFT, WJCT, WFHB, WLIW and more
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Choclatt Jared has played his bucket drums on 42nd Street, at the Grammy Awards, the Tony Awards, the Academy Awards, and on Saturday Night Live. H...
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 30:13
Wil Haygood's story on the front page of The Washington Post in 2008 about the late Eugene Allen, a butler who served eight U. S. presidents from H...
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 29:36
Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 40:46
Freida Mock talks time, perspective, and the impact of the right image.
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 11:36
Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian ch...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 28:24
- Purchases: 1
Adam Leon talks anxiety attacks, passing the smell test, and taking what New York threw at him.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 14:44
“Rhythms of the Land!” is a documentary-in-progress which tells the important stories of African American farmers. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 28:00
In Houston, Cathy Byrd meets Senior Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver at the Contemporary Arts Museum to tour Valerie’s latest exhibition project: Radi...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 12:35
Singer Jacqui Sutton talks about the long road to a new sound -- Frontier Jazz -- as well as her band and some of the songs on her new album.
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 05:15
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York whose life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transform...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
William Pope.L, an American performance artist and interventionist, talks about Blink, his magic lantern show for Prospect.2 New Orleans, 2011.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 1
1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 29:00
"Aunt Viv" from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air shares stories from her career, and a chef talks about what it takes to run a restaurant.
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Alelia Bundles on her great-great grandmothers transformation into an entrepreneur and social activist-...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 27:30
- Purchases: 1
From preteen girls to college women to female faculty at the highest ranks of academia—a show about how women are learning to become leaders throug...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WJCT, WMPG, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR and more
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 9
How the evening news shaped attitudes about race relations during the Civil Rights Movement.
Bought by KALW, WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, WJAB and more
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 9
Writer/director Dee Rees talks breakthrough poetry, gender fluidity, and the healing power of ice cream.
- Added: Jan 10, 2012
- Length: 15:04
Filmmaker John McDonagh talks embracing serendipity, racism as a character device, and when stunt work goes wrong.
- Added: Jul 29, 2011
- Length: 17:49
Emma Stone talks courage, civil rights, and working from the outside in.
- Added: Jul 21, 2011
- Length: 07:32
As of 2009, only a quarter of 18-24 year old black men were enrolled in college. But one Oakland foundation is trying to make this a thing of the p...
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 04:54
Journalist Bruce Watson talks about FREEDOM SUMMER: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy. And the great civil ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Jan 14, 2011
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
Idris Elba talks to Andrea Chase about glamorous gangsters, creative cross-pollination, and working in Rwanda.
- Added: Aug 22, 2010
- Length: 09:31
