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Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...
- Added: Dec 11, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
S. Brent Plate on materiality and lived experience. Natasha Alford on Memphis, Martin Luther King, and Ferguson.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 41:08
Tonight’s program seeks to shine a light first on what’s been called the “militarization” of police across the country due to something like a fede...
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 57:53
A stirring collection of patriotic music performed throughout U.S.
history by African Americans, sometimes in the face of public
hostility. Also, s...
- Added: Jun 21, 2014
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 4
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
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 40:46
Daniel Beaty's play and bravura performance in The Tallest Tree in the Forest shines a light on the artistry and activism of Paul Robeson.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 31:49
- Purchases: 1
This is the newest version of a captivating account of how slavery fueled the unique American form of Capitalism.
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
It's a music-filled podcast with New Orleans composer, producer, and pianist Allen Toussaint who combines elegance with funk. [29:29]
Bought by KISA Digital Studios, KCSM, WABE, and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 4
Pratibha Parmar discusses making the recent documentary about an iconic American writer, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which can be seen on the Am...
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 3
“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
Doug Seroff, co-author of a book about some of the most popular songs of the ragtime era, talks about his part in writing the comprehensive study '...
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 05:00
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...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Artist, curator, art consultant and Fresh Rx contributor, Kesha Bruce talks to Cathy Byrd about her creative platforms and offers advice to artists.
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 15:58
In Chicago, Cathy meets video performance artist Jefferson Pinder to learn about how his fascination with Houdini and street theater led to his liv...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 15:23
In Brooklyn, theater director Ira Kip talks to Cathy Byrd about her new play "She'Baltimore" and the raw space between medical politics and domesti...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 15:58
In Baltimore, Joyce Scott, a venerated visual and performing artist talks with Cathy Byrd about the art scene in Baltimore, her hometown, and descr...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 12:25
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
In his Brooklyn home, activist artist Danny Simmons talks to Cathy Byrd about the essential elements of his creative practice—writing, painting, co...
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 16:51
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 15:03
Cathy Byrd telephones Charles Guice, owner/director of Charles Guice Contemporary, to talk about his passion for contemporary photography and his c...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 12:56
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
"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
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
