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Caption: Lynette Freeman
A perfect choice for Breast Cancer Awareness month is Waking Up by Cori Thomas. It juxtaposes the experiences of an American urbanite's and an Afri...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 18:02
Caption: Richard Hunt in his studio, Credit: Tom McCormick
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

Bought by WNJR and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
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Meat & potatoes Les McCann & Houston Person begin our journey up and down hills & valleys, then along the Long Yellow Road with Toshiko & Tabackin....

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KPVL, WYAP and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WNJR, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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The Poet Laureate of Belfast Maine is trying to make a difference in his community -- one poem at a time.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
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The adventure continues with material we doubt ever re-released on CD like Bobby Hutcherson. It meanders thru a couple hits from Phoebe Snow and An...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, WOUB, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 4
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The Poet Laureate of Belfast Maine is trying to make a difference in his community—one poem at a time.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
Caption: Dancers at Dance Mission Theater, Credit: Thomas Levy
Some people who take dance classes regularly have a saying: “Dance is my church.” Dancer Stella Adelman says just that about going to Afro-Cuban f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artist OREE ORIGINOL's artwork on display on the corner of 24th and Byrant in the Mission., Credit: Todd Whitney
If you have walked the streets of the Bay Area recently -- you might have seen posters featuring the names and faces of Oscar Grant, Renisha McBrid...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
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More than 50 years ago, America’s most prolific composer, Duke Ellington, collaborated with bassist Charlie Mingus and drummer Max Roach to produce...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:59:01
Caption: Tameka Norris, Credit: courtesy Tameka Norris
Tameka Norris talks about her first feature-length film—she plays a version of herself in Meka Jean: How She Got Good. The film debuted during Pros...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 12:07
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With Kenny Burrell interpreting Duke Ellington, artistry can do no wrong. Blues of southwest and midwest inspiration include Gerald Wilson. Jazz ...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KPVL, WYAP, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:53
  • Purchases: 4
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A blistering Lee Morgan on trumpet sets the ambiance for singers Leah Natale, Cecile Hortensia and Mark Murphy, rhythm makers could be Charles Lewi...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, WOUB, and KVRZ


  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 4
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The 1920 lynching of three young black men in Duluth is a tragic part of Minnesota's history. On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, in the Atwood Memori...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:02:22
  • Purchases: 1
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KVSC Radio at St. Cloud State University presents Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings. On the evening of June 15, 1920, a crowd of thousands attacke...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
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KVSC Radio at St. Cloud State University presents Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings. On the evening of June 15, 1920, a crowd of thousands attack...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" Playbill., Credit: Photofest, Inc.
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Bernadine Mitchell in Bessie's Blues, wirtten and directed by Thomas W. Jones II, Credit: Courtesy of Metro Stage
Writer, director, and actor, Thomas W. Jones II makes sense of the world through theater

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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State of the Re:Union has made it an annual tradition to commemorate Black History Month with a special episode exploring lesser known corners of A...

Bought by KUAT, KWMU St. Louis, WAMU, High Plains Public Radio, Classic107.3 and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 46
Caption: Carolyn Mazloomi, Credit: Gale Zucker
Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African American community through narrative quilts.

Bought by KDNK, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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A leader in community engagement, murals and public arts, St. Paul painter Ta-Coumba Aiken is our guest on Radio Gallery this week.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Toni Tipton Martin making hot rolls.
There’s a whole lot more than recipes in Toni Tipton Martin’s cookbook collection… It contains a surprising culinary history of African Americans i...

Bought by KVLU, WBHM, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 22:28
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Dr Maria Rosario Jackson
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson talks about urban planning that has art at its heart.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Martin Luther King, Jr., 1981, by  John Woodrow Wilson, Credit: Philadelphia Museum of Art: 125th Anniversary Acquisition. ©John Wilson/licensed by VAGA, New York.
With a new exhibit and catalog-- both titled Represent, the Philadelphia Museum of Art puts its extensive collection of African American art on vie...

Bought by KZUM, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3