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Official history says the first Memorial Day celebration was held in Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1868, where Union and Confederate soldi...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 03:00
This week our guest is Laura Pendleton-Miller, CEO of Blue Lotus Artists' Collective (BLAC). BLAC is a new, non-profit gallery in Tucson, Arizona e...
- Added: Jun 24, 2023
- Length: 29:00
This week we're in conversation with Dr. Tani Sanchez, Professor of Practice in the Africana Studies department at the University of Arizona. Dr. S...
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 29:00
This week we rebroadcast our recent interview with Beverely Elliott.
This week our guest is Beverely Elliott, Executive Director of the African Am...
- Added: May 28, 2023
- Length: 29:00
This week our guest is Beverely Elliott, Executive Director of the African American Museum of Southern Arizona in Tucson. Mrs. Elliott shares the j...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Oct 21, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Season 1.5, Episode 2
In 1968, Yvonne Bechet became one of the first female police officers in New Orleans. She was also the first African America...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 1
Making neighborhoods sustainable makes them desirable and rising prices push old residents out. Community land trusts in Denver CO and Burlington ...
Bought by WFHB, KGNU Community Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Welcome to Watershed, a podcast about life in a group of neighborhoods on the East Side of Cleveland.
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 08:25
About NOT Being My Mother - Ruth Reichl talks about her book; Marilyn Yalom on the History of the Breast, Anne Lamott about her daily life; Tillie ...
- Added: May 06, 2016
- Length: 01:59:00
Host and one of the founders of the American Black Male Leadership Institute Alfred Bundy talks to three more individuals who's desire and determin...
- Added: Apr 04, 2015
- Length: 49:57
Togo, a tiny country in Africa, is one of the world's poorest countries.
Despite clear evidence that educating girls and young women is the surest...
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 50:58
Host Alfred Bundy provide coverage the endeavors of the American Black Male Leadership Institute (ABMLI)
- Added: Aug 28, 2014
- Length: 49:24
Football star Michael Sam made a bit of Black history when he came out as gay this month. To do that ahead of the NFL draft took a lot of courage.
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Myiesha Taylor, prominent emergency room physician and advocate working with the Disney corporation to inte...
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 2
There is an effort underway in Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Bed Stuy, to protect the old architecture by turning parts of the neighborhood into historic ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 05:20
- Purchases: 1
This oral essay sings the praises of one of New Orleans' greatest gifts to the world: brass bands.
- Added: Sep 25, 2005
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2