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Marking Stories of Slavery (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Plantations in America’s South are physical testaments to the great wealth accrued through slave labor. Yet, plantation museums often gloss over th...

Bought by WCNY, WABE, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KPVL, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
9: Beverly Parenti & Hediana Utarti, Bringing Hope Within Reach for Immigrants and Inmates
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Beverly Parenti, The Last Mile
Human trafficking is estimated to be in the millions--yet only a fraction of it is reported. And taxpayers spend $60,000 per person, per year on in...

Bought by KKRN, KWMR, KSJD, and WRIR


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
#1501- Healing From Regret: Michelle Van Loon
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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Michelle Van Loon has been a writer for more than three decades. With her recent book, If Only: Letting Go of Regret, the author has written a prac...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
#1503- Exploring the Roots of Violence: E.L. Kornegay
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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In this episode, we talk with Dr. E.L. Kornegay, founder of the Baldwin-Delaney Institute for Academic Enrichment and Faith Flourishing, about sear...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
#1509- The New Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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This week we take the full hour for David Dault's in-depth interview with Michelle Alexander, author of the groundbreaking 2010 book, The New Jim C...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz great Charles Lloyd takes us on his journey
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The world legend is thrown around a lot, but saxophonist, flutist and composer Charles Lloyd is the real deal. He's much of a musical innovator tod...

Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 4
Historian Ray Arsenault explores the legacy of Marian Anderson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: marian-anderson-the-lincoln-memorial-concert-1939, Credit: courtesy of national film preservation foundation
Raymond Arsenault's book The Sound of Freedom examines the 30 minute concert that helped move a nation forward.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Filmmaker Sam Pollard celebrates August Wilson.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" Playbill., Credit: Photofest, Inc.
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Telling Black History with needle and thread, National Heritage Fellow Carolyn Mazloomi
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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
An African-American musical tradition older than the blues
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: The Singing and Praying Bands
Rev Jerry Colbert shares one of the oldest African-American music traditions. He's the leader of The Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Dela...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KPIP-LP, and WABE


  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Women's History Month: Women of the Civil War
From: Francesca Rheannon
Caption: Mary Bowser
Karen Abbott talks about her book Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy. It’s about four courageous women of the Civil War who made history. And later, we ...

Bought by KUHF, KWMU St. Louis, KUOW, KTSW 89.9, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Theater artist Ping Chong shines a spotlight on race in America with Collidescope.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Moriamo Akibu in COLLIDESCOPE , Credit: Stan Barouh
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
#1413 - Religious Objects: S. Brent Plate, Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
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S. Brent Plate on materiality and lived experience. Natasha Alford on Memphis, Martin Luther King, and Ferguson.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 41:08
America the Beautiful (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Marian Anderson Sings at Lincoln Memorial: 1939 # 3, Credit: Smithsonian Institution
A stirring collection of patriotic music performed throughout U.S. history by African Americans, sometimes in the face of public hostility. Also, s...

Bought by WILL, WCNY, WTJU, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 21, 2014
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 4
America the Beautiful (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A stirring collection of patriotic music performed throughout U.S. history by African Americans, sometimes in the face of public hostility. Also, s...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WUFT, WJCT, WFHB, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
A Conversation with Dinaw Mengestu
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: Michael Lionstar
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
A conversation with Anthony Braxton
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Anthony Braxton, Credit: Photo by Michael G. Stewart
Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 40:46
Food Sleuth Radio, Gail Myers Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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“Rhythms of the Land!” is a documentary-in-progress which tells the important stories of African American farmers. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Brigham Young: American Moses?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York whose life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transform...

Bought by WJCT and WFHB


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Fresh Talk: William Pope.L
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: William Pope.L, Blink New Orleans, 2012, Credit: Cathy Byrd
William Pope.L, an American performance artist and interventionist, talks about Blink, his magic lantern show for Prospect.2 New Orleans, 2011.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
1619: The Making of America
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
The Road to Success
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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"Aunt Viv" from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air shares stories from her career, and a chef talks about what it takes to run a restaurant.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Madam CJ Walker: An African American Self-Made Millionaire
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Alelia Bundles on her great-great grandmothers transformation into an entrepreneur and social activist-...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 1
Women and Leadership
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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From preteen girls to college women to female faculty at the highest ranks of academia—a show about how women are learning to become leaders throug...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WJCT, WMPG, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Equal Time: The Networks and the Civil Rights Movement
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How the evening news shaped attitudes about race relations during the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by KALW, WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, WJAB and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9