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Celebrate the blues with musician Phil Wiggins
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Phil Wiggins, Credit: Bibiana Huang Matheis
We're revisiting 2017 National Heritage Fellow and Blues Harmonica Player Phil Wiggins who brings it all home in this music-rich conversation.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WCPN, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
Special Report- Jubilee Justice Regenerative Farming: Tackling Racism & Rice
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Underground and Taboo (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Underground and Taboo (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

Bought by WABE, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, KMUN, WRMU and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 13
Underground and Taboo (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Underground and Taboo (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
NL 23-29: Paris Noir: Black American Jazz Musicians In France, 7/10/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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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,...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
WoodSongs 1037: Black Opry
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The Kentucky Gentlemen on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Black Opry founder Holly G plus The Kentucky Gentlemen, Jett Holden, R...

Bought by Radio Bristol, KMSU, WLPR , WVRU, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 60
Kashimana Performs Songs About Becoming a Mother
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Phantom Cries album cover, Credit: Kashimana Ahua
As a grant-supported Cedar Commissions artist, Kashimana created a set of songs about becoming a mother. The songs are now on CD, called Phantom Cr...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Meet the Step Artist and the Founder of Step Afrika!: C. Brian Williams
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: C. Brian Williams, Credit: Jim Saah
Step Artist and Producer and 2022 National Heritage Fellow C. Brian Williams discusses the rich cultural history of stepping and his work bringing ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Griot: Daniel Sampson and Charlie Sampson
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Charlie Sampson and his son Daniel Sampson at their StoryCorps interview in Denver, Colorado on May 30, 2023. , Credit: By Tamekia Jackson for StoryCorps.
Growing up in LA’s Watts neighborhood, a visit to a traveling carnival introduced Charlie Sampson to life as a professional cowboy. In 1982 he beca...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Abolishing the Death Penalty (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Abolishing the Death Penalty (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Abolishing the Death Penalty (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WRMU, WFHB, WYAP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Abolishing the Death Penalty (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WRGY, and KXCV


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Celebrate Black Music Month with NEA Jazz Master Kenny Garrett!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kenny Garrett, Credit: Jimmy Katz
Saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Kenny Garrett talks about his life in music.

Bought by WMPG, WSLR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
13-17: Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy As Unequal As Our Economy?, 7/5/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Heather McGhee, Credit: Hardy Wilson
By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a ra...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
StoryCorps Griot: Jarie Bradley and Menaja Obinali
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Jarie Bradley and Menaja Obinali at their first StoryCorps interview in Dallas, Texas on December 13, 2014., Credit: By Callie Thuma for StoryCorps.
Jarie Bradley reflects with her aunt, Menaja Obinali, on the lessons she’s learned in their decades-long friendship.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
A Confrontation with History (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

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


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Confrontation with History (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KVSC, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, KMUN, WRMU and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
A Confrontation with History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
A Confrontation with History (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

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


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
2021 National Book Award Winner Tiya Miles Turns Her Hand to Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tiya Miles, Credit: Stephanie Mitchell
2011 MacArthur Fellow, 2021 National Book Award winner, historian, and novelist Tiya Miles discusses how fiction and history meet in her novel.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Empathy Tours (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

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


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Empathy Tours (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

Bought by WUTC, KVSC, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10

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