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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
Harlem Stride piano, boogie and skiffle were all created by the house rent party. Hosts opened up their apartments for a night, charging a fee to g...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The American Folklife Preservation Act of 1976 directed the Library of Congress to gather stories and art of everyday people to reflect the identit...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Tin Pan Alley songsters were quick to pick up on the popularity of jazz in the 1920s. And, the lyricists, like Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and Hoag...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
On the eastern slope of the Continental Divide, about an hour’s drive east of San Jose, Costa Rica, is the Rain Forest Aerial Tram, a tramway that ...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 29:00
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
The Last Pope
It is no secret that the papal conclave met April 18, 2005 to elect the head of one of the world’s few remaining imperial monarchies....
- Added: Apr 07, 2023
- Length: 29:00
At the edge of the New Orleans French Quarter at the turn of the twentieth century Storyville kick started jazz. There are a couple of reasons for ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 06, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Ferdinand’s Influence: Although his name is well known in the history of early jazz, he’s seldom named as a major player. Jelly Roll Morton. Yet, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
American Mania, When More is Not Enough
Not so long ago before the common use of devices operated by electricity our lives were generally much mor...
- Added: Mar 30, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Take a look behind the scenes. For every musical note, there’s a story. For every chapter, there’s an encyclopedia. Hear stories from guitarist and...
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
