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Stagecraft (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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During the early months of the pandemic, live theater shut down completely.

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


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Anthony W. Wood
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Historian Anthony W. Wood discusses his new book, "Black Montana Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930."

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DuBOIS & The And I Thought Ladies
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, award-winning poet and now novelist, about The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, just out from Harper Collins. Th...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:38
Reading and Writing Ourselves (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

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


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
Reading and Writing Ourselves (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Reading and Writing Ourselves (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

Bought by KYUK, WMMT, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WJCU and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Reading and Writing Ourselves (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

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


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Celebrate Juneteenth with novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Credit: Syreeta McFadden
A Conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge whose historical novel Libertie explores the possibilities and limitations for 19th century Black women.

Bought by WMPG and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Meet 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jericho Brown, Credit: Brian Cornelius
Jericho Brown talks about writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection The Tradition

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:38
  • Purchases: 1
Invisible Ink
From: Black Mountain Radio
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Fifteen years ago this month, on April 6, 2006, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison spoke to a crowded lecture hall on the campus of the University of...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 21:01
Meet poet and playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Credit: Emma Pratte
Poet and playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes explores immigration and belonging through poetry and theater.

Bought by WORT, WMPG, and KZUM


  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 3
Meet environmental poet Camille T. Dungy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Camille Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy discusses her work as an ecopoet.

Bought by WSLR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 3
Poet and Editor Kwame Dawes
From: New Letters on the Air
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Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, the poet Kwame Dawes is the editor of Nebraska's literary magazine, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, and the 2021 successor t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Hanif Abdurraquib
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet and culture critic Hanif Abdurraquib discusses his new book, "A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, the most notable poets of our time gathered in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower Poetry Center,...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KEDT, WCNY, Ohm Radio , Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7
Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, the most notable poets of our time gathered in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower Poetry Center,...

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


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 2019, the most notable poets of our time gathered in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower Poetry Center,...

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


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
GN_7.13_Dressed Up Education
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Every school day in February, first grade teacher LaToya McGriff dresses up to teach Black History.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
WorldCanvass: The Ghanaian-American Experience in Literature and Art
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Renowned author Yaa Gyasi, whose novel Homegoing won the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book and the Pen/Hemingwa...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:21:49
The Past American Voice of Playwright August Wilson
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR revisits this program with the late August Wilson. FENCES, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winnin...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WDCB, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Writer Sharon G. Flake Highlights Human Trafficking and Survivors in "The Skin I'm In"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Tammy Bobrowsky talks with young adult writer Sharon G. Flake. Her new novel is called "The Life I’m In", it’s the story of a young woman trapped i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2021
  • Length: 16:38
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts presents writer Danielle Evans
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Danielle Evans , Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Author Danielle Evans discusses her recent short-story collection "The Office of Historical Corrections."

Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues Black History Month with Nikky Finney whose fifth book is called LOVE CHILD'S HOTBED OF OCCASIONAL POETRY: POEMS A...

Bought by KWMR and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tracy K. Smith, Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Former poet laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith in wide-ranging conversation about poetry, history, and memory.

Bought by WMPG and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poet DaMaris Hill
From: New Letters on the Air
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We celebrate Black History Month with DaMaris Hill, the youngest and first living American poet to be signed to Bloomsbury Publishing. In the final...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1