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A Taste of Sugar: The Sugar Pie de Santo Story (Part #1)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Sugar Pie de Santo , Credit: Chess Records
Sugar Pie de Santo is a singer, dancer, band leader and song writer who is responsible for the hit with Etta James "In The Basement". She has recor...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 55:18
Sharon Hanshaw: Leading Out of the Ruins
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Before Katrina, Sharon Hanshaw owned a beauty salon and lived in a house on a tree-lined street. All that all changed when the hurricane hit Biloxi...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public, KOSU and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Genius of Charles Mingus!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus was a Jazz musician, composer, and band leader. He recorded over one hundred albums and wrote over three hundred scores. Some of the...

Bought by KCNP, WESM 91.3 FM, Spokane Public Radio, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 54:38
  • Purchases: 4
The Afro Cuban Messenger: Mongo Santamaria
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Mongo Santamaria
Mongo Santamaria was best known for "Watermelon Man" and "Afro Blue". He was a percussionist and Cuban. He will most likely be remembered as the be...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KVMR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 55:55
  • Purchases: 4
Reimagining a New Way of Life
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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New Orleans East is home to the most-dense ethnically Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. In the Gulf region, about 80 percent of Vietnamese ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGNU Community Radio, Vermont Public, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Wilma Subra: Chemistry of the Aftermath
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Chemist Wilma Subra has spent her career defending local communities against Louisiana’s powerful oil and gas industry. Since the Deepwater Horizon...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, Vermont Public, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Nat Turner: Planting Seeds for a Lifetime
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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For Nat Turner, garden rakes and shovels are tools for transformation. He's transformed an old store in New Orlean's Lower Ninth Ward into an urba...

Bought by KOSU, KCMJ Community Radio, KWMR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Kyshun Webster: Reaching for Greatness
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Dr. Kyshun Webster is a man who gets things done. And before that, he was a kid who got things done. Now the founder and executive director of Oper...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Vermont Public, New Hampshire Public Radio, WFIU and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Jeff Hull, author of 'Pale Morning Done' and 'Streams of Consciousness: Hip-Deep Dispatches from the River of Life
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Jeff Hull and Chérie Newman talk about Hull's books and magazine articles, plus fly fishing, cloud seeding, wolves, and clinic...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 8, Episode 40
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 8
Caption: Avignon, France
In this Episode 6 Francophone Artists are introduced in English with one of their songs. No need to understand French to enjoy their offering becau...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 25:34
  • Purchases: 1
Malcom Moos and Ike's Farewell Address
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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Fifty years ago this month, President Dwight Eisenhower gave his farewell speech to the American people. Eisenhower's farewell address is considere...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 14:40
  • Purchases: 1
Anton Treuer and "The Assassination of Hole In The Day:"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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“The Assassination of Hole In The Day”: Author and Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State, Anton Treuer, talks about his new book about the dynamic a...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 26:22
  • Purchases: 4
MN's 1st Volunteer Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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Local historian, Barry Babcock, on the heroic stand by the First Minnesota Volunteers at the Battle of Gettysburg

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 15:33
  • Purchases: 1
Winona LaDuke
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Winona LaDuke has spent decades working on issues of renewable energy, health, and environmental justice on northern Minnesota's White Earth Reserv...

Bought by WILL, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City, KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 22
MN Author William Kent Krueger and "Vermilion Drift"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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What does it take for a critically acclaimed mystery writer to make it to the New York Times bestseller list? MN writer William Kent Krueger thinks...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 21:31
John Francis
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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John Francis spent two decades walking across North and South America, spreading a silent message of respect for the earth. He takes host Majora Ca...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, KWMR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Vermont Public and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Connie Evingson, Jazz-Vocalist from Minneapolis
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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By Doug MacRostie. You know that saying, "It's not WHAT you said, it's HOW you said it!"? The same thing applies to singing; it's not what you sing...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 35:37
"Big Belching Bog" with MN Author Phyllis Root
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Phenology Show
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If a bog belches and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound? That’s the secret and the question behind a new picture book for children cal...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 07:36
Brenda Palms Barber
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Brenda Palms Barber is driven by a certainty that "people deserve second chances and you can choose to turn your life around." Brenda started a tra...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Vermont Public, WRVO Public Media, The Public's Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Battle of Sugar Point on Leech Lake
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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The Battle of Sugar Point on Leech Lake: northern MN historian, Cecelia McKeig, talks about the causes of the last 19th century armed conflict betw...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 11, 2010
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 2
Audrey and Frank Peterman
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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If Frank and Audrey Peterman have their way, many more of their fellow black Americans will visit our national parks. They take host Majora Carter ...

Bought by KALW, High Plains Public Radio, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KUER, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 25
Nalini Nadkarni
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Pioneering researcher and "queen of the forest canopy" Nalini Nadkarni, shows host Majora Carter the wonders of the Olympic rain forest — from the ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WZEN.org, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Vermont Public, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Centerstage MN 0146 - Alison Scott
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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This week on Centerstage MN Maddi Frick interviews Alison Scott, a singer songwriter from Minneapolis – they’ll be debuting music from Alison’s for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 57:17
  • Purchases: 1
Centerstage MN 0145 - Lake Effect
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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This week on Centerstage MN we’ll be talking with Jenny Graupmann, originally from Grand Rapids, about her vocal ensemble Lake Effect. Operating ou...

Bought by WTIP, KMSU, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 01, 2010
  • Length: 57:44
  • Purchases: 3
Native Voices Online: Onzaam O Onzaam
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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We talked with Onzaam O Onzaam, an online persona in northern MN working as a voice of Native People and building connections for the spread of Nat...

Bought by KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, WGDR, and KVSC


  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 4