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2018 National Heritage Fellow Marion Coleman tells stories through her quilts.
Bought by Bandon Community Radio and WJAB
- Added: Oct 23, 2018
- Length: 27:33
- Purchases: 2
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.
- Added: Sep 12, 2018
- Length: 29:59
Jazz singer Dianne Reeves believes in making music without boundaries.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 29:44
- Purchases: 2
Actor Dion has narrated hundreds of audio books and is an aural shape-shifter.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 1
Mat Johnson takes a satirical look at race and identity.
- Added: Feb 23, 2018
- Length: 29:56
- Purchases: 2
Actress Meta Golding takes on the role of a lifetime: Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 27:18
- Purchases: 2
Director Rob Meyer talks about the making of the independent film, Little Boxes.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Feb 09, 2018
- Length: 28:28
- Purchases: 1
Director Kyle Donnelly sees theater as interpretive history.
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 26:59
It's Sonny Rollins 87th birthday and he sat down with the NEA's Josephine Reed to talk about his life in music.
- Added: Aug 31, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Ron Simons became a producer to shine a light on untold stories.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Aug 11, 2017
- Length: 29:06
- Purchases: 1
Johnson's novel Welcome to Braggsville puts four kids from Berkeley in Georgia to protest a Civil War reenactment with a pretend lynching. What co...
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 26:31
- Purchases: 2
2017 National Heritage Fellow and Blues Harmonica Player Phil Wiggins brings it all home in this music-rich conversation.
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
The new exhibit at NMAAH&C illuminate history, community and culture. Co-curator Aaron Bryant walks us through it.
- Added: May 31, 2017
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 3
One of the best jazz organists, ever…and one of the most sampled jazz musicians.
Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 5
Bowman Wright on the transformative power of theater and his two portrayals of MLK.
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 27:08
The Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts uses dance to create a community of young men.
Bought by KISA Digital Studios, WCAI / WNAN, WNJR, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
McBride’s latest book looks to understand what shaped James Brown-- one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
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...
- Added: Mar 24, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
In her new work Baltimore, playwright Kirsten Greenidge grapples with the issue of race on college campuses.
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Archie Shepp shares his musical biography—and his thoughts about the legacy of African-American music.
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 4
In his memoir Soul Serenade, Rashod Ollison describes how music was a lifeline during a difficult upbringing.
- Added: Feb 16, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
In her new play, Sweat, Lynn Nottage gives voice to the human cost of workers without work.
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
From Pericles to Tupac Shakur, Wayne Carr has the uncanny ability to embody fully-realized characters.
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Tazewell Thompson may be wowing critics and audiences with his direction of the opera Appomattox, but he’s an equally brilliant theater director an...
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Richard Hunt talks about creating large pieces of abstract art for public spaces and reflects on his time on the National Council of the Arts
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
