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Sabrina Beavers talks to her friend and colleague, Shantay Davies- Balch about Black maternal health and the premature births of their children.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2021
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, three conversations about community storytelling. If listening is an act of love, then storytelling could be...
Bought by Morehead State Public Radio and WRGY
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
We all know of Martin Luther King Jr.'s major contribution to the discourse about non-violence. Who planted the seeds of his thinking? It turns out...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, WKMS, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KICI Iowa City and more
- Added: Dec 29, 2020
- Length: 54:59
- Purchases: 6
We speak with local Bemidji State University professors on recommended books on racism, diversity, and racial justice.
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 59:53
- Purchases: 1
Welcome to this week's WBB Talkshow.
This week, we're excited to introduce you to a fantastic line-up of business owners.
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
On this week's WBB talk show, we feature two amazing women who have found solutions to some of the problems affecting the African-American community.
- Added: Oct 28, 2019
- Length: 01:00:10
Making neighborhoods sustainable makes them desirable and rising prices push old residents out. Community land trusts in Denver CO and Burlington ...
Bought by WFHB, KGNU Community Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
This time, we profile the March 1932 recording sessions held by Vocalion in New York City, as the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression.
- Added: Aug 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Rocket 88,” by Jackie Brenston — widely considered to be one of the archetypal records of rock ‘n’ roll.
- Added: Aug 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Baby Scratch My Back” by Slim Harpo — the only number one hit on the Excello label during its 23 year run.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Key to the Highway” — one of the enduring classics of the blues, first recorded by pianist Charlie Segar in 1940.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile Stick McGhee’s 1949 anthem to good times and cheap booze — a big hit that saved a fledgling Atlantic Records from bankruptcy.
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile B.B. King, who hit the number one spot on the Billboard R&B charts with “Three O’Clock Blues,” this week in 1952.
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Guitar Slim, who — much to everyone’s surprise — hit the top of the R&B charts with “The Things That I Used To Do,” in 1954.
- Added: Jul 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with “Homesick” James Williamson and Johnny Shines.
- Added: Jul 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Elmore James, Arthur Spires, and Johnny Williams.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Little Walter, “Honeyboy” Edwards, Muddy Waters, and J....
- Added: Jul 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile “Open the Door, Richard” — a 1947 novelty record that quickly embedded itself into the American consciousness.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile guitarist Big Joe Williams and harmonica ace John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who last recorded together, this week in 1947.
- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Ruth Brown, one of the biggest R&B singers of the 1950s, who first hit the top of the Billboard charts, this week in 1950.
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile street musician Bongo Joe, who recorded a cult favorite for Arhoolie Records, in 1968.
- Added: Apr 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Robert Johnson, who made his recording debut the week of Thanksgiving, 1936.
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Son House and B.B. King, who both made historic live appearances in Chicago the Saturday night before Thanksgiving, 1964.
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile The Howlin’ Wolf, who made his debut on the Billboard R&B charts in 1951.
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
