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Perfect for Women's History Month programming. "Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects," a new special from The Kitchen Sisters, h...

Bought by WRGY, WKSU, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Troy Public Radio, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 51
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For some eight years now, 34 Black women from the Bay Area — artists, scholars, midwives, nurses, an architect, an ice cream maker, a donut maker, ...

Bought by KASU, WWNO, High Plains Public Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 53:27
  • Purchases: 45
Caption: Janis Burley Wilson, Credit: Joey Kennedy
Artistic Director Janis Burley Wilson discusses the culturally-specific multidisciplinary programming of the August Wilson African American Cultura...

Bought by KZUM, WSLR, RADIOLEX, KMUN, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 7
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Can dance and song offer insight into a person’s experience, and provoke curiosity, even empathy across national identity, race and gender? In this...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Amanda Burdan
The National Endowment for the Arts discusses the exhibit Votes for Women: A Visual History from Suffrage to Civil Rights with its curator Amanda B...

Bought by WMPG, KZUM, WCNY, KMUN, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In this episode, Laura interviews MacArthur Genius Award winning choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili about her groundbreaking experimental work to comm...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Denise "Seven" Bailey and Tristan Al-Haddad, Credit: Kathy M Helgeson/Dunwoody College of Technology
Designing Nimbus—a giant, donut-shaped sculpture for Nicollet Mall—was just the beginning. Artist Tristan Al-Haddad also needed a talented crew to ...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 04:21
Caption: Nicholle Ramsey, slam poet, Credit: Sylvia Thomas
Slam poets and sonnet lovers usually don’t hang out together. But in Winona, Minnesota, they do. KFAI’s Sylvia Thomas reports on an unusual poetry ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Black Ballerina looks at different generations of dancers, but is it the same story?

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, Public Radio for All, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Credit: Jessica Suworoff, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Johnnetta Cole remembers when she wasn't allowed in museums because of segregation, and that informs her determination to inspire a love of art mu...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Playwright Kirsten Greenidge
In her new work Baltimore, playwright Kirsten Greenidge grapples with the issue of race on college campuses.

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


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Carolyn Mazloomi, Credit: Gale Zucker
Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African American community through narrative quilts.

Bought by KDNK, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Toni Tipton Martin making hot rolls.
There’s a whole lot more than recipes in Toni Tipton Martin’s cookbook collection… It contains a surprising culinary history of African Americans i...

Bought by KVLU, WBHM, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 22:28
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
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one of the famous Gees Bend quilters talks about the tradition of quilting and their rise to international fame

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Aug 29, 2008
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 1
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artist damali ayo's search through paint stores to match paint to her skin tones.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2004
  • Length: 05:07