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6 works, including WAGNER: Götterdämmerung: Immolation of the Gods. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Georg Solti.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 56:54
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Carmen McRae was one of the most respected jazz singers in the business for four decades. This week, we’ll explore her early recordings for the Dec...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, we pay tribute to singer and humanitarian Harry Belafonte. We’ll explore his expansive recording career, which encompassed folk, calypso...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on Afterglow, we explore the songs of two unrelated black jazz composers from the early 20th century: Spencer Williams and Clarence Willi...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, we’re celebrating the rich baritone voice of jazz singer Johnny Hartman, who would have turned 100 years old on July 3rd. We’ll explore ...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The children of Baptist preachers, raised in gospel music — Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke are two of the most venerated names in soul. This week, w...

  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Author Marlene Wisuri talks about the latest edition of "To Be Free"

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 06:45
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In today’s EXTENDED Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with renowned comedian and SCSU alumnus...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 39:29
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with renowned comedian and SCSU alumnus C. Willi...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It's Black History Month, and that means the gals along with the guys. Visit two women you probably never heard of who were "firsts" in their field...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:47
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On this episode, we’ll explore the life and career of “Mr. B” Billy Eckstine, a singer and bandleader who broke boundaries as a black icon in a seg...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Lorez Alexandria
This week, I’ll introduce you to the music of two underrated female singers, revered among jazz aficionados: Lorez Alexandria and Ethel Ennis.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Album cover for the new Resonance Records box set "Hittin' The Ramp"
This week, Mark Chilla talks with jazz historian Will Friedwald about the early years of Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, as they explore some...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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The mission of the Black Heritage Library & Multicultural Center is to build community awareness, appreciation and understanding of the value of cu...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Normally, The Rough Draft Diaries looks back on someone's success months or years after they've mastered their skill or goal. Today, we're chatting...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Mercé Culp is a 4-dimensional artist. Her work includes street art, dance, fashion, graphic design, and video. Urban Digitz is the body of work she...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Since it began in 1988, TOLEDO EXCEL, a scholarship incentive program at The University of Toledo, has been striving to prepare underrepresented st...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
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On this Afterglow special for Black History Month, we explore the songs of two unrelated black jazz composers from the early 20th century: Spencer ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Dan Stokes, Credit: Shefik
Strength - Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:43
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Cydnee Moore creates artwork featuring striking lines in acrylic paint, bold colors, and stories steeped in African American heritage. She believes...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Anderson and Karen Lawson remember their father, engineer, Gerald Lawson and how his pioneering spirit influenced their childhood in 1970’s Silicon...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Leontyne Price
This is a Classical music program featuring women of color. They are all notable Women in various fields of Classical Music; including Composers, ...

Bought by KVCR, WXXI Rochester, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 56:24
  • Purchases: 3
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Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:06
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For 50 years the nationally syndicated radio show, In Black America has given voice to people of color in America, and John L. Hanson Jr. has hoste...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 34:07
Caption: Monet Hambrick with her husband, children and parents in Nevada, Credit: Monet Hambrick
Monet joined World Footprints to answer questions about RV travel and share some lessons and the joys of multi-generational family travel. She also...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:31