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The Blind Boys of Alabama In Concert
From: WFUV
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The Blind Boys of Alabama perform a live concert at the Cutting Room in Manhattan.

Bought by Prairie Public, KFCF FM, KMUW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2008
  • Length: 54:57
  • Purchases: 21
Episode 13: The New York African Burial Ground
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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The Battle to Preserve and Honor the New York African Burial Ground

Bought by WJAB, WDSE, and WNYC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 12. Lincoln's Dilemma: Saving the Union or Freeing the Slaves?
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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The NY City Draft Riots & The Battle of Ft. Wagner - July 1863

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 11. Signs of War: the Abolitionist Split
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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John Brown, Frederick Douglass & Harper's Ferry

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 10. First-Class Citizenship
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Catherine "Katie" Ferguson, the Jennings Family, and the Battle for Full First-Class Citizenship (1830-1854)

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 9. Splits and Rifts
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Ruggles, Douglass and the Rise of the Abolitionist and Back to Africa Movements, & the Underground Railroad (1830-1854)

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 8. Self-Determination
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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The Rise of the Black Church, the Black Press and the Fight for Education (1783-1830)

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 7. The Rebellion Within the Rebellion
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Huddy and Tye (1775-1783)

Bought by WNYC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 6. The Struggle Continues
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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More Revolts, "Conspiracies," and Runaways (1712-1775)

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 5. Early Slave Resistance
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Slave revolts & resistance: New England / New York 1712, etc.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 3. Survival
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Eleven Africans and the Survival of the New Netherlands Colony (1624-1664)

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 2. Prequel: Early Contacts
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Juan "Jan" Rodrigues, the First Free African in the Hudson Valley (1612-1614)

Bought by WRPI and WNYC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Brief Moment in a Beautiful Place
From: Fitz Cahall
Series: The Dirtbag Diaries
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Two friends recount their story of traveling in Laos and one spectacularly bad idea, building a bamboo raft.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2008
  • Length: 24:24
The Real Story of Rosa Parks
From: Caroline Harding
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Rosa Parks and the vital role of women in the civil rights movement

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2008
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 5
Dear Martin: Jazz Tributes to Martin Luther King Jr.
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Perfect for Black History Month (February)or MLK Day (January), Night Lights presents this one-hour program of jazz tributes to Dr. Martin Luther K...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, Radio Catskill, WVPE, WSLR, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2008
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 66
Old World Beat
From: With Good Reason
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The sounds and history of Klezmer music, once rooted in the Jewish religious tradition, now played on festival stages, nightclubs and concert halls...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 1
Jump for Joy - Duke Ellington's Celebratory Musical
From: WFIU
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Perfect for Black History Month (February), this one-hour special tells the story of Duke Ellington's musical "Jump for Joy"

Bought by WVIK, High Plains Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, KSUT, KCSM and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 37
Collecting Christmas Creches
From: John Hingsbergen
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One of the world's largest collections of Christmas creches at the University of Dayton (Ohio)

  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 04:22
Alan Johnston's story
From: BBC
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As he neared the end of a posting in Gaza, the BBC's Alan Johnston was seized at gunpoint by militants. Here he tells the full story of his 114 day...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 10, 2007
  • Length: 22:20
  • Purchases: 1
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (A Ghost Story for Christmas)
From: Craig Wichman
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By mining the dark veins of this classic, its timeless heart is reclaimed.

Bought by KREV-LP, WUTC, KTXK, KVSC, KGOU and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2007
  • Length: 55:19
  • Purchases: 61
The Education of a Young Dairy Farmer
From: Ed Janus
Series: Milk on Our Boots: The Terroir of Dairyland
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Cows helped form the moral character of a young woman farmer

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 10:39
  • Purchases: 1
Splendor From His Grass
From: Ed Janus
Series: Milk on Our Boots: The Terroir of Dairyland
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From corporate offices to dairy barn and farmstead cheese making

  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 13:36
Remembering...The D-Day Spirit
From: Ted Magnuson
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Patriotic recollections

  • Added: Nov 22, 2007
  • Length: 08:49
Argentina to Alaska
From: Jesse Hardman
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A journey like no other in a 1928 car

  • Added: Nov 17, 2007
  • Length: 07:29
A Needed Change
From: Voices of Our World
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"Need", the first humanitarian issues independent magazine; and Austin's work with AIDS orphans in Africa

  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 27:56

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