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When the New Orleans community of Storyville was shuttered in 1917, musicians began traveling north to find work. No one could have been prepared f...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Bands and songs featuring the character of a "night owl." Usually a male who stays out all night every night. She's waiting on him at the front ...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and WQCS
- Added: May 23, 2023
- Length: 04:09:21
- Purchases: 4
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
Former Senator Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the 1968 Kerner Commission, which was tasked to solve the problem of riots spreading thr...
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 07:52
Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 1
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
At the turn of the century, 1900, entertainment promoters discovered the value of staging musical reviews for introducing musical scores. In order ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The Hidden Jury, and Other Tactics Lawyers Use to Win
What happens when a guilty person is acquitted of crime? Or worse, when an innocent person i...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.
Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 56:56
- Purchases: 2
"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 48:57
When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 51:34
If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 54:18
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 59:05
Is it possible to study human remains ethically?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 44:44
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
- Added: May 14, 2023
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
The Jam Session: It’s the proving ground for a musician. That’s where you test your chops. Your creativity. For 1920s jazz performers, these sessio...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 12, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The war that the United States has invoked in what is often called the “War On Terror” is unusual in many ways. One of those ways is that this war ...
- Added: May 12, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 55:48
- Purchases: 1
Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 01:03:24
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 33:44
My Hometown Concentration Camp
Bernard Offen, age 72, survived five Nazi concentration camps in Poland during World War Two, when he was a young t...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 29:00
They could not have been more opposite in their approach to jazz. Yet, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington had identical goals. Provide the best mus...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
When recruiters from the Armed Forces of the United States seek out volunteers, they often portray military life to be a great adventure. They talk...
- Added: Apr 28, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Women have made vast contributions to the history of early jazz. Not only as vocalists, but as musicians, bandleaders, composers and lyricists. Unf...
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
