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When you call 911, who answers the phone? How do they decide who to send to the scene, and how fast will they get there? We bring you a 2-part spec...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: State of Opportunity from Michigan Radio
If you think we live in a post-racial world…think again: statistically speaking, being born Black or Latino or Native American is associated with s...

  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 50:27
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Infant mortality rates in Michigan are better than they used to be, but still not good enough. Seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan w...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 51:01
Caption: Steve & Dee Dee!, Credit: Dee Dee Bridgewater
After months of intermittent phone calls, text messages and emails Dee Dee Bridgewater finally made her debut appearance live in studio on the Ste...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:57

  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:59:07
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Lets go back to 20 plus years ago and discover some of the hidden soul gems of the period. Notably cuts from Charlie Wilson, Live Stevie Wonder an...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:57:43
  • Purchases: 1
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The 2nd quarter of the soundtrack to your soul was a busy one! We shared the words and music of nine artists talking about everything in their live...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:57:50
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The 2nd quarter of the soundtrack to your soul was a busy one! We shared the words and music of nine artists talking about everything in their live...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:58:38
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The Latin Journey continues with patriarch of the E family-Pete Escovedo talking congas, timbales and mentoring his highly influential family! A Ca...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:56
Caption: Steve Edwards/Host Producer, Credit: Steve Edwards
The Fusion Special is where the combination of Soul meets Jazz and Funk! It peaked in the early 1970`s and was spearheaded by artists and groups fr...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, Radio Catskill, and WDCB


  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Steve Edwards/Host, Credit: Steve Edwards
For lovers of the live stuff, this in concert performance series is essential to your musical well being! A global journey of recorded performance...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Host/producer, Credit: Steve Edwards
This hour of the Steve Edwards Soul show displays its primary focus on the music and highlights some of the classic stablemates in british soul mus...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:17
Caption: Coretta Scott King, Credit: NNDB
Equal Time Series Host Martha Burk explores the life of Coretta Scott King with biographer Barbara Reynolds, a founding editor of USA Today. Burk...

Bought by Talking Information Center, KRPS, 90.5 WSNC, WAMU, and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 56:48
  • Purchases: 5
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Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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How did slaves resist their oppression? Three works explore what it means to resist and to survive.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KUOW, KVNF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 24
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A one-hour, music rich appreciation of the legendary Chicago-born jazz saxophonist. Griffin died at the age of 80 on July 25, 2008.

Bought by Vermont Public, WNIJ, WCPN, and WNCU


  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Exploration of R&B Music

Bought by KUCB, WSGE, WFSU, WNCU, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 5
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Historical look at R&B Music

Bought by KUCB, WFSU, WEFT, NPR Illinois, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
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Jazz singer Chris Calloway, daughter to the legendary singer and band leader Cab Calloway, died August 7, 2008. Chris recalls her father's legacy ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KGLT, and WVRU


  • Added: Dec 23, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Master drummer Max Roach recounts his own extraordinary journey, from the era of the Jim Crow south to the creation of modern jazz, from the civil ...

Bought by WFIU, High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, KMUW and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2007
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 47

  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 10

  • Added: Jan 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 14
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Michael S. Harper talks about what he teaches in his poetry classes and reads some his favorite poems.

Bought by WLIW, KUER, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 8
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Blues lyrics give us unique insight into the African American experience.

Bought by KMUN, WLIW, KMUN, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 22