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On today's program we honor Bayard Rustin, one of the most central figures in the African American struggle for Civil Rights and Freedom. Rustin wa...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jason Berry
Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker Jason Berry joins Gwen with fascinating stories and characters populating New Orleans’ cultural and mu...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
Caption: Big Freedia is credited with bringing New Orleans "Bounce" music to the rest of the USA, Credit: Brad Hebert
New Orleans musician Big Freedia is famous for her music and twerking; her life story and anti-gun activism are less well known.

  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:29
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BIPOC journalists reflect on what it is to be veterans of two of the most devastating wars in recent history: the coronavirus pandemic and the cent...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Join us for a journey of musical discovery as we uncover newly released jazz treasures from artists like Nnenna Freelon, John Pizzarelli, Dara Tuck...

  • Added: May 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:50:40
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
February 1st is National Freedom Day, made into a holiday due to one man's efforts.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A caring black musician is dedicated to convincing Ku Klux Klansmen to leave the organization through the power of music and conversation.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "Shock Value" - When ...

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caption: The power of War & Treaty on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes world-renowned singer-songwriter plus electric husband & wife roots duo W...

Bought by Radio Bristol, WEJP-LP 107.1, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 24
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If Black Lives Matter, how are journalists and media organizations considering Black pain in their coverage? And how are journalists and editors ac...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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One of America’s first Black female Marines talks about boot camp below the Mason-Dixon line, military service, her inspirational life journey and ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 40:42
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A prepatory school in disheveled Newark New Jersey successfully helps young men reach their highest potential.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:21
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From Jamaica, Rosie Gordon-Wallace is a globally recognized curator, arts advocate, and community leader based in Miami, Florida, since the 1970s. ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 19:01
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Ingrid Douglas never finished high school as a teenager. When she started looking for a better job at age sixty, she found not having a degree was ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, three conversations about community storytelling. If listening is an act of love, then storytelling could be...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio and WRGY


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Lowell Fulson was a blues icon with a great history and is still an influence today to many blues musicians.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:47
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Actor and director Tyler Perry is drawing on his own painful past to give others a better future.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:27
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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
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Bard College, a small Private University in New York State, offers the Bard Prison Initiative, or BPI, to interested inmates who have committed ser...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Ballerina Aesha Ash is on a mission, to help change the often demoralizing, objectified images of African-American women, and she’s doing it, in a ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Fannie Lou Hamer
We'll hear and celebrate the voices of women: Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, Joan Armatrading, and civil rights heroine Fanny Lou Hamer on this women'...

Bought by WKMS, KAAD-LP, WLPR , KZUM, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 11
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In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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Newest release from a Blues veteran, Nora Jean Wallace, who has been missing in action for the past 16 years.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:59
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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
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The first electric Blues artist to use a Fender Stratocaster given to him by Leo Fender himself.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1