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The Lovers of The Poor
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music which reacts to racism and social unrest.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 1
Interview w/ poet ELIZABETH ALEXANDER about her memior "The Light of the World"
From: Out of Bounds
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Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir "The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
For Black Boys: "You Are Beautiful"
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: RadioActive Youth Producer Leija Farr, Credit: KUOW / RadioActive staff
“In a place that will never understand you are amazing, in a place that will put fire to you then say you are callous, they will burn you then say ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
Gloria Rhoden: Good Things Come In Small Parcels
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Gloria Rhoden, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Gloria Rhoden hails from Saint Mary, Jamaica. She has traveled the United States, up and down the East Coast for years. She knew Bob Marley and san...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 24:17
John Coltrane (Ep. 10)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Sax titan John Coltrane
In this hour, it's the life and legend of John Coltrane—from his rural North Carolina roots to his place as one of jazz's most spiritual men and mu...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, KZYX, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 34
Billie Holiday (Ep. 8)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Jazz songbird Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KMUW, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
Nina Simone (Ep. 2)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Nina Simone, the "High Priestess of Soul"
In this hour, it's the life and music of Nina Simone—from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of jazz's fiercest voice...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WCPN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
Jazz and Film (Ep. 25)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman in the 1961 movie, "Paris Blues"
In this hour of The New Jazz Archive, we explore the shared history of jazz and film—from the role race played in shaping jazz's place at the movie...

Bought by WCPN, KHNS, KMUN, WVPE, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
Eric Jones, Custodian
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
Louie's Lament
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
In the early years of recordings, Louis Armstrong became a trailblazing pioneer in the art of accompanying blues singers. I wasn’t as easy as it ma...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Miss Anne in Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Carla Kaplan
White upper-class women seeking to become honorary blacks. Unheard of –right? That’s what began to happen during what became known as the Black Ren...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Christi & Christopher: A Mother and Son Story
From: University of Montana Journalism
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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
Remixing Grandma's Voice
From: Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
Caption: My grandmother as an infant, Credit: Family collection
When Afi Scruggs digitized an interview with her late grandmother, she recalled truism about technology: every time a format changes, important inf...

Bought by KALW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 3
Colored Musicians Club
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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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
Gail & Emile
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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In the 1970?s, dancer Gail Lyons and drummer Emile Latimer discovered love in Buffalo, New York through West African music. After all these years,...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
Thanksgiving
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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Youth producer Rochelle Smith gets to the real meaning of Thanksgiving with her family. Produced at LBJ High School in Austin, Texas, as a part of...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Mar 02, 2011
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 2
From Out Of The Blues
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A profile of a blues musician in Maine.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1
Khadija's Dream Routine
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Khadija Hussein is fourteen, and a Somali refugee living in Lewiston, Maine.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:12
  • Purchases: 1
Perceptions Shattered: African American Masculinity from Chicago Public Radio, PRX and the NBPC
From: WBEZ
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Youth voices share their perspectives on Black masculinity.

Bought by WFAE, WEAA, New Hampshire Public Radio, WYSO, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2008
  • Length: 52:33
  • Purchases: 19
Nostalgic Daze by FM Supreme
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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Her fifth year in the competition, Supreme says this piece is about a longing for home (Chicago) and feeling displaced after heading off to college...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:52
Poems for Manhood
From: David Kates
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Activist poet discusses his work.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2007
  • Length: 04:06
Not Guilty: Life After Exoneration
From: Evan Roberts
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After spending almost 13 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Rick Walker and his family adapt to life after exoneration.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2007
  • Length: 15:05
  • Purchases: 2
Bayview: Urban Renewal or Utter Removal?
From: Jarrod Sport
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Bayview community's apprehension to a proposed redevelopment plan.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2007
  • Length: 14:13
In the Shadow of the Voting Rights Act
From: Kezia Simister
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While the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was an enormous victory, for a time it also meant more hardship for some African Americans in the South. Charmi...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2006
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
Homeless Haircuts
From: Hana Baba
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A nurse-turned-barber helps the homeless in her own way

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 06:14