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Crime Novelist Tracy Clark’s FALL (2nd in Harriet Foster Series)
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Tracy Clark⁠ is an award-winning author of 6 crime novels including the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series. ⁠ FALL⁠ is her newest book and second i...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 10:35
Three Poems for These Times
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "When loss and innocence...", Credit: Susan Cook
Three poems of loss, courage and resilience for these times.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:05
Booktalk: National Book Award winner James McBride’s THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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James McBride’s newest book is THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them. As the s...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 10:05
Booktalk: Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell’s “HER HONOR”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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An American retired judge of the Superior Court of California, LaDoris Hazzard Cordell was also the first black female judge in the northern part o...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2022
  • Length: 09:21
Brit Bennett's "THE VANISHING HALF"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Brit Bennett’s “THE VANISHING HALF”, like her first title, “The Mothers,” has been a smash hit in the world of books. ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 09:48
Zakiya Dalila Harris’s “The Other Black Girl”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Zakiya Dalila Harris’ debut novel, "The Other Black Girl," takes readers into the corporate world of publishing where few people of color are empl...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2021
  • Length: 09:53
Sonnet for Justice
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "...they are taking justice out in the backyard..., Credit: In "Breathing: American Sonnets" by Susan Cook
A sonnet about justice when it is buried and forgotten.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 06, 2021
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1
Police Psychological Screening with Dr. Richard Zonderman- Miami Dade College School of Justice Police Academy, Formerly CIA Washington D.C.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Police Psychological Screening with Dr. Richard Zonderman- Miami Dade College School of Justice Police Academy, Formerly CIA(Central Intelligence A...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Pursuit of Happiness with Ricky Williams NFL Football Immortal and CBD Wellness Mogul
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Pursuit of Happiness with Ricky Williams NFL Football Immortal and CBD Wellness Mogul. What happens when Two-time All-American, Heisman Trophy...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Alabama Had No Compassion Then. Now None for Women?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "The Arc of the moral universe is long but it moves toward justice."., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry today asks if Alabama's long history of lack of compassion toward people of color now appears again in their lack of...

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: :54
The Global Fight for Climate Justice and against Environmental Injustice with Jacqui Patterson Director of Environmental & Climate Justice at the NAACP
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Global Fight for Climate Justice and against Environmental Injustice with Jacqui Patterson Director of Environmental & Climate Justice at the N...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Documentarian Katherine King and The Hantam Community Education Trust (HCET), Eradicating Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) starting with South Africa
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Hantam Community Education Trust, Eradicating Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) starting with South Africa. Katherine King Documentarian joins us f...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 2
Crime Writer Rachel Howzell Hall’s “City of Saviors"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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"City of Saviors" is Book 4 in Howzell Hall’s popular Lou Norton series. It pits this African-American LAPD homicide detective against a heat wave,...

Bought by KISA Digital Studios and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 2
Helene Cooper & “Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author describes the journey of Liberia’s Sirleaf, honors the amazingly resilient Liberian women who put her into office, an...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 09:48
The Tragic Birth of Black Populism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today, we’ll take a look at the development and destruction of Black Populism in the post-bellum South, discovering the strategies, institutions, a...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Capitalized Womb: The Slave-Breeding Industry in America
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Slave Auction, Virginia, by LeFevre Cranstone, c. 1860s
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry, by Constance and Ned Sublet, is an extensive accounting of American slavery, do...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Sound of Resistance: Protest or Pose
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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We’ll look at three songs: “Strange Fruit” sung by Billie Holiday (and recently sampled by Kanye West); “We Almost Lost Detroit” by Gill Scott Hero...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 55:38
  • Purchases: 2
The Wages of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Color Line
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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He straddles the more essential American Century, from the failure of Reconstruction to the March on Washington, not demarcated by round numbers an...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WCPN


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:03
  • Purchases: 2
African American Attitudes Towards Gun Ownership
From: Kenneth Flowe
Caption: New York City Young Gun, Credit: Photo taken by George Samuals 1984
This is a series of interviews designed to showcase various attitudes held in the African American Community about Gun Ownership in General, and Co...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 16:05
Ghosts, Dogs, and the Law: On Constructing Criminality and Negating Persons
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our program is a conversation with Colin Dayan, author most recently of two lauded books, With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White Dog....

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 58:05
Crime novelist Neely Tucker and "The Ways of the Dead"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This first in a new mystery series is written by a veteran Washington Post reporter and is based on a true crime, the Princeton Place Murders, that...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
Exploring Laura Plantation and New Orleans' Faubourg Treme
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Main house on Laura Plantation, Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Take a tour with World Footprints on the famed Laura Plantation with a descendant of the historical Locoul family. Walk through New Orleans famed ...

Bought by KISA Digital Studios


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 1
Actor Yolonda Ross Talks 'Go For Sisters' And 'Treme'
From: WWNO
Caption: Yolonda Ross
Yolonda Ross is a lead in John Sayles' latest independent film, "Go For Sisters". Her filmography includes Antoine Fisher, Shortbus, and HBO's "Tre...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in Harlem. It is part of The New York City Public...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Middle Ground Pilot 1
From: Middle Ground
Series: Middle Ground
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The first pilot for Middle Ground, a show focusing on news, politics and culture from middle America

Bought by NPR Illinois and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2