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We learn from Founder and Executive Director of Afromundo, Loida Maritza Pérez AND 18-year-old artist, Lauryn Mills-Bohannon, creator of the Afromu...
- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 41:36
Perfection is overrated. Artist Kay Black creates custom dolls that reflect imperfections as true, one-of-a-kind beauty.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In 1968, Black American athlete Tommie Smith set a new world record. He became a gold medalist when he raced to win the 200-meter event at the Summ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 20:52
Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 31:58
Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ first major retrospective, “All Things Being Equal” is open at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Thomas’s work addresses the on...
- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 05:29
In November 2019, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock brings his mythological “Moundverse” to Miami. Locust Projects gives over the entire s...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 18:03
We meet Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford—known for connecting art with the real world—when he represents the United States in the 57th Venice...
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 09:01
What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights an...
Bought by Interlochen Public Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 56:29
- Purchases: 1
In these moments, we learn about the (soulful) power of the organ, especially in the hands of Dr. Lonnie Smith.
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 12
In these short pieces, Dee Dee talks about scatting, her big break, and studying the moves of Betty Carter.
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 13
Luthier, Freeman Vines talks about the guitar he's building from the wood of the old hanging tree.
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 09:15
Richard Mosse’s images of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of The Congo, are shot on film which is no longer made. In the past, it ...
- Added: Jan 09, 2017
- Length: 05:37
The Black Panther Party combined Black Power’s militancy with socialist ideology, and infused funk music with Franz Fanon’s writings. Their impact...
- Added: Dec 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
This Cutting Edge Special looks at the life of writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 01:00:16
"You can play notes, but if you don't put anything in the notes, that's what it is...just notes." - Pharoah Sanders.
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 11
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
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
We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 50:03
- Purchases: 2
Award winning Minnesota Poet Sean Hill joins Heidi Holtan to talk about his book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor."
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 1
Artist FAITH RINGGOLD speaks with Mosaic of Art host George Fishman about her exhibition at the Miami Art Museum, entitled "American People, Black ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2011
- Length: 04:43
Since the 1994 demise of South Africa's apartheid system, photography in that country has taken on a new freedom, and a new meaning. It has evolve...
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 06:05
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 54:15
