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New Brownies (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Do you remember reading children’s newspapers in your childhood? In the 20s, W.E.B. DuBois started a paper just for “children of the sun.”

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KIYU-FM, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, KHNS and more

New Brownies (hour/no bb or bed)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Do you remember reading children’s newspapers in your childhood? In the 20s, W.E.B. DuBois started a paper just for “children of the sun.”

Bought by KECG and Royalton Community Radio

New Brownies (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Do you remember reading children’s newspapers in your childhood? In the 20s, W.E.B. DuBois started a paper just for “children of the sun.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WMUU-LP

New Brownies (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

Do you remember reading children’s newspapers in your childhood? In the 20s, W.E.B. DuBois started a paper just for “children of the sun.”

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM

NL 24-07: Suite History: Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey, 2/12/2024

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Suite History - Four Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, Morehead State Public Radio, WLRH and more

It's Time! Max Roach In The 1960s

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

A centennial tribute to Max Roach, who set the pace for modern jazz drumming and became an outspoken activist for civil rights.

Bought by WSKG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUAT and more

NL 24-01: From Spirituals To Swing, 1/1/2024

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

A look at the historic 1938 Carnegie Hall concert and its 1939 follow up, featuring performances by Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and others.

Black and Fine (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials

Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by WUTC, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WRMU, KMUN and more

Black and Fine (hour/no bb or bed)

From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials

Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KECG, and Royalton Community Radio

Black and Fine (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials

Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by KCBX, KVCR, KZYX, Morehead State Public Radio, KUAC and more

Black and Fine (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials

Some of America’s first maestros of European art music were enslaved and free Virginians of African descent.

Bought by KCBX, KVCR, Morehead State Public Radio, KUAC, WUGA (part of GPB) and more

NL 23-29: Paris Noir: Black American Jazz Musicians In France, 7/10/2023

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

In the years following World War II, Black American jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon, Kenny Clarke, and Bud Powell took up residence in France,...

NL 23-25: On A Turquoise Cloud: Duke Ellington After The War, 1945-47, 6/12/2023

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

Ellington kept his orchestra together in a changing economic landscape, continuing to create memorable music and expanding his compositional horizons.

NL 23-08: Here Comes The Sun: Nina Simone On RCA, 2/13/2023

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

In late 1966 the fiercely individualistic singer and pianist Nina Simone signed with RCA Records and continued her genre-bending explorations of ja...

NL 23-06: Black Composers In Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis, 1959, 1/30/2023

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

The first in a recurring series of shows explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Again...

Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.

Director's Cut: Best of WGR 2022 (hour/no bb or bed)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

This year, we’re bringing you some of our favorite segments from 2022.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY, Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW

Director's Cut: Best of WGR 2022 (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

This year, we’re bringing you some of our favorite segments from 2022.

Bought by KEDT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WRGY, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more

Director's Cut: Best of WGR 2022 (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

This year, we’re bringing you some of our favorite segments from 2022.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WLPR , WFHB, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more

Director's Cut: Best of WGR 2022 (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

This year, we’re bringing you some of our favorite segments from 2022.

Bought by WLPR , KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNMU-FM

NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights

Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

Musical Legacies (hour/no bb or bed)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

A.D. Carson’s new album, “iv: talking with ghosts,” was written under the heaviness of covid lockdown, the deaths of close friends and family, and ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW

Musical Legacies (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

A.D. Carson’s new album, “iv: talking with ghosts,” was written under the heaviness of covid lockdown, the deaths of close friends and family, and ...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WUTC, WFHB, KMUN, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more

Musical Legacies (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

A.D. Carson’s new album, “iv: talking with ghosts,” was written under the heaviness of covid lockdown, the deaths of close friends and family, and ...

Bought by WTJU, WUTC, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more

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