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A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...
Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR
- Added: Jul 18, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
Poet Douglas Kearney and musician Val jeanty discuss their experimental hybrid album, Fodder.
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 14:09
In 1872, a black school teacher traveled by steamboat from Quincy, IL, to Keokuk, IA, to visit her family. Along the way, she was forcibly removed ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2020
- Length: 05:20
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Martin Luther King, I waited on him. He had ham and egg and hash browns.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 2
Some guys come in and think you can turn pro next week, but once they come in here and find out what you have to go through, it’s like a wake-up ca...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile Chris Strachwitz and Mance Lipscomb, whose paths crossed in Navasota, Texas, this week in August 1960.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Magic Sam, who appeared this week in 1969 at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival.
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Skip James, whose re-emergence at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival marked the advent of a new chapter in his career.
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at the American Record Corporation's 1939 field trip to Memphis. For the Bluff City, it marked the end of an era.
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile guitarist Blue Smitty, who cut his only session for Chess Records, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Muddy Waters, who made an historic appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, this week in 1960.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi blues legend Charley Patton, who made his debut for Paramount Records, this week in 1929.
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
I get so much love from the customers in here. It’s better than where I came from.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
This show is part II of our Juneteenth Series focusing African-American music and venues in North Tulsa from the 40's through the 60's. We intervi...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 58:58
Anita Monga talks restoring fragments, revolutionary women, and honoring the legendary film preservationist, David Shepherd.
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 20:20
It’s not surprising that many of the medicines we use today are derived from plants. The surprising part is how similar the molecular components of...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 35:36
Jazz saxophonist Chico Freeman talks about his famous father, Von Freeman, and about his experiences living in Europe. Freeman has now returned to ...
- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 30:00
Chris Foreman plays Sundays in Church. And every Friday night, he's at Chicago's legendary Green Mill — playing the funky Hammond B3 organ in a nig...
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 04:21
Anita Monga talks color, tattoos, and Rene Clair.
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 22:47
Don Cheadle talks commitment, new connections, and being real.
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 16:32
Elliot Lavine talks the pleasures and perils of 35mm, seismic overhauls, and blows to the solar plexus.
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 33:16
Most young people don’t know what they want to do with their lives. This is a story about a high school student who was born into a calling – being...
- Added: Dec 24, 2015
- Length: 05:18
This week's program was recorded on the road, in Dayton, Ohio.
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Maya Forbes talks understanding social cues, having honest conversations, and being a sloppy dynamic team.
- Added: Jun 19, 2015
- Length: 09:18
