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Christi was a pregnant teenager who gave up her baby for adoption and then changed her mind. The story from there goes places no one saw coming. Pr...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
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In this second part of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Perfo...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:59
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In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Leesa Dean (right), Credit: Adrien De Martini
Bobby speaks with, writer and animator, Leesa Dean about her three fully developed animated series – Chilltown, The Danger Squad and Lele’s Ratchet...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2013
  • Length: 55:22
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Detain of Yolanda's portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B Klein
Who could imagine overcoming a multi decade street life, fed by crack & prostitution, to care for a family that disowned you? Yolanda can, and did.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 13:25
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Songs and my rants about the heart and soul of New Orleans plus the usual (unusual?) music you never heard by musicians you've never heard of.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:40:52
Caption: Mr. Badey's "glory days", Credit: ESPN
The band is finally back together! After a year and a half of hating each other, friends Rob Piccirillo "Bobby Pickles", David Bader "Mr. Badey" an...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
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The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:13
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In this Cutting Edge Special, some of the work of late poet Louis Reyes is highlighted through live performances at WBAI and his show "Perspective"

  • Added: Apr 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:03
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4 Moments with legendary drummer and NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WICR, WART FM and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 11
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The Cutting Edge looks at the life of the Emmy award-winning journalist, Gil Noble- considered as America's best known and most influential African...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:11
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Award-winning producer, Dred-Scott Keyes takes us through an audio journey of the events and issues which led to the death of Trayvon Martin, the 1...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 58:30
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Students all over Philadelphia are being pushed out of schools and right into the school to prison pipeline. This is happening because of the lack ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:45
Caption: Sean Hill
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
Caption: Thom Collins, Faith Ringgold and Tracy Fitzpatrick
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
Caption: Ansil Saunders, Credit: jake warga
Just 50 miles from the coast of Florida in the Bahamas is the tiny island of Bimini. Home of the fabled fountain of youth, it was once known for it...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KISU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WABE, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 9
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This special edition of "The Cutting Edge", looks at the trial, resistance and execution of Troy Davis, who was convicted of the killing of an off-...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 56:30
Caption: Sugarcane Harvester, Credit: Zwelethu Mthethwa, photographer
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
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"Well, growing up in Detroit I was exposed to a lot of different music, a lot of different cultures at a very young age without ever having to leav...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 6
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The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a symposium on Malcolm X, held at the Shomburg Center after the release of the late Manning Marable's book,...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:09
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African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...

  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:59
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Since the 1960s, writer and producer Nat Hentoff has confronted the question "Is jazz black music.' He discusses the issue in a 2008 conversation w...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more


  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 6
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The Colored Musicians Club is one of Buffalo’s oldest music venues. Jazz giants from Count Basie to Billie Holiday played there, but even with the ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:24
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Author T.J. English looks at NYC in the late 60's and 70's and the tense relationship created between the police and NYC's growing communities of c...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 52:09