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Building Back Black Wall Street
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021
Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Beloved Blues
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 23:18
The Jazz Phools
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Perry Bradford
When the aging jazz artist was hospitalized, his doctors thought they should get some background information on his life, and he told them that he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
EP224 Eric Bibb
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Eric Bibb's musical career spans 50 years. His 2023 Album "Ridin' " is a collection of great words for our world today.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Almost Astronaut
From: Joe Richman
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The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.

  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 16:36
Return, Rebury, Repatriate
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 56:58
Origin Stories
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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How race was invented to support racism.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 33:44
EP223 Lightnin' Slim
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Otis Hicks was a somewhat unsung Louisiana blues man who was an inspiration to another Louisianan who would one day become world famous!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:08
  • Purchases: 2
EP220 Joe "Guitar" Hughes
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A great Blues musician who deserves recognition for his contribution to the genre.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:44
  • Purchases: 1
EP216 Hubert Sumlin
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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He was ranked as #43 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time. That is a great legacy to leave behind.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
EP213 Magic Slim
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Magic Slim and the Teardrops stayed true to the sound of Chicago Blues

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
EP212 Luther Allison
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Luther Allison took Blues to a new level, yet stayed true to it's roots.

Bought by WLPR and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2
EP206 Jessie Mae Hemphill
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
EP205 A.C. Reed
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:21
  • Purchases: 1
EP202 Joe Louis Walker
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A performing artist for over 6 decades, Joe Louis Walker is one who is due some recognition.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #38: Cartoons
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Have you ever heard of the cartoonist Oliver Harrington? Probably not, but the artist played an instrumental role in German-American history. From ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
EP196 Salute to Chicago Blues Masters
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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In the year 2000 Telarc Blues label released a 3-album salute to three Chicago Blues Masters.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Apr 30, 2022
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 1
EP192 Veterans of the Blues
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Both of these veteran artists were born in 1939 and are still performing in 2022.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:02
Nelson, Dr. Alondra: "Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This program was recorded on February 19, 2016. Who we are and where we come from is a crucial question that now we are more able to answer than e...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
EP190 Lightnin' Hopkins 1959
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A listen of a recording from 1959 that resurrected the career of Sam Lightnin' Hopkins.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 1
EP184 Masters of Modern Blues Floyd Jones & Eddie Taylor
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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An historical recording with an amazing lineup of musicians from Chicago.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 57:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton
From: Radio Diaries
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On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 2
Soul Sister: The Limits of Empathy
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
EP179 Memphis Minnie
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Tribute to one of Blues music's great contributors, Memphis Minnie.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 58:54