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Expanding the Franchise (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Expanding the Franchise (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

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


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
NL 22-39: Trane '62: John Coltrane's Classic Quartet Begins, 9/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Recordings that saxophonist John Coltrane made with Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, and the rhythm section of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jo...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
NL 22-36: Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, 8/29/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In January 1943, bandleader and composer Duke Ellington took his orchestra into Carnegie Hall for the first time and chose to make his debut with a...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
Rhiannon Giddens celebrates a world of Black music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rhiannon Giddens, Credit: Ebru Yildiz
In this 2021 interview, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artistic director of Silkroad Rhiannon Giddens talks about the Black roots of ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, New England Public Media, WMPG, RADIOLEX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Riding Jane Crow (Promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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From working in the food car to sitting in first class, Black women are critical to the history of the American railroad.

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


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Riding Jane Crow (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
Caption: Barbara Johns
From working in the food car to sitting in first class, Black women are critical to the history of the American railroad.

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KCSB-FM, Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Riding Jane Crow (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
Caption: Barbara Johns
From working in the food car to sitting in first class, Black women are critical to the history of the American railroad.

Bought by KZYX, RadioStPete Florida, KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 12
Riding Jane Crow (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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From working in the food car to sitting in first class, Black women are critical to the history of the American railroad.

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


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXDU, WHRV, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 11
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

Bought by KUHF, KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WFHB and more


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.

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


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Newton's Annotator (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

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


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7
Newton's Annotator (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by KMUN, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Newton's Annotator (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Newton's Annotator (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Kingsley Tufts Award-winning Poet Patricia Smith: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Patricia Smith, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the 2018 winner of the coveted Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, is now the 2021 Ruth...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Homecoming (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The first federally registered Black neighborhood in the United States was Jackson Ward, a once-booming economic and residential district in Richmo...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
Homecoming (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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The first federally registered Black neighborhood in the United States was Jackson Ward, a once-booming economic and residential district in Richmo...

Bought by KRVS, WKSU, Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
Homecoming (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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The first federally registered Black neighborhood in the United States was Jackson Ward, a once-booming economic and residential district in Richmo...

Bought by WXDU, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Homecoming (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The first federally registered Black neighborhood in the United States was Jackson Ward, a once-booming economic and residential district in Richmo...

Bought by WKSU, Georgia Public Broadcasting, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
NL 22-09: Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington's Early Black Pride Music, 2/21/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, there was the music of Duke Ellington . Born and raised in Washington, D.C. at the t...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
Born in Blackness part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard W. French, Credit: Guardian
It’s just possible that our understanding of history is seen through a distorted lens. We think we know how the modern world was made. But, keep in...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2