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The Vendor's Hustle
From: Matt Rogers
Caption: Yolanda, tamale vendor
There are ten thousand street vendors in New York City, that magnet for the world's poor and America's hopeful; some licensed and some not. Vendors...

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 48:34
Lorenzo Diggs and Joseph Ferdinand
From: Rachel Falcone
Series: Housing is a Human Right Storytelling Project Vol. 1
Caption: Lorenzo Diggs, Credit: Michael Premo
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. Lorenzo Diggs takes us inside the harrowing conditions of the Bedford-Atlantic Armory shelter...

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  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
Rob Robinson and Beverly Corbin
From: Rachel Falcone
Series: Housing is a Human Right Storytelling Project Vol. 1
Caption: Young man walking in Brooklyn, Credit: Michael Premo
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. Shortly after being promoted and relocated from New York to Miami, Rob Robinson is laid off a...

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  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 13:07
  • Purchases: 1
James Roberts
From: Rachel Falcone
Series: Housing is a Human Right Storytelling Project Vol. 1
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James Roberts shares his journey trying to save his ailing partner William, who has HIV, and their home together. Full piece includes story with i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 08:10
  • 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,...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
Caption: White students protest integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. , Credit: Photograph by Flip Schulke/CORBIS
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...

Bought by WDDE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, WCMU Michigan, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 32
Wailin' Soul: Bob Marley and the African-American Connection"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Caption: Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder, Credit: Kim Gottlieb-Walker
The Midnight Ravers look at the evolution of reggae music and the influence of African-American culture on it in general and on Bob Marley, specifi...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KVMR, WNCU, WGDR, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
EZ Malone
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c. 2000
On her way home from her grandmother's funeral in 1996, Carmen happens to meet a remarkable African-American guitarist in a thrift shop in North Ca...

Bought by KUT, KGLT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 3
Carmen's Grandmother
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c.2000
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nu...

Bought by KUT, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 3
Erroll Garner, January 2, 1977
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His friends called him "Hoochie Coo," and he was one of the great jazz pianists ... composer of hundreds of songs, but best known for writing the t...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
My Favorite Things at 60
From: Robin Washington
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March 2021 is the 60th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane's definitive jazz work "My Favorite Things." Winner of the National Association...

Bought by KBEM, RadioFreePalmer, KSFR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 6
The Black Experience
From: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Caption: Dr. Della Taylor Hardman
Dr. Della Taylor Hardman made it her mission to talk to influential and promising African Americans inside and outside of West Virginia. Her interv...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WDDE, WJAB, KWMR, WEMU and more


  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:00
  • Purchases: 10
Still Singing the Blues: New Orleans and South Louisiana
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: Still Singing the Blues
Caption: Louisiana blues diva Carol Fran performs at her 76th birthday party., Credit: Photo by Barry Yeoman
Still Singing the Blues: New Orleans and South Louisiana features musicians in New Orleans and South Louisiana who continue to perform the blues—of...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KMUW, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KZMU Moab Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 11, 2010
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 25
A Love Supreme
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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The making and influence of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme."

Bought by 90.5 WESA, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, WJAB, WMOT and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 01:58:20
  • Purchases: 17
Bayoji Akingbola - "The Victim of Circumstance"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
The 'Courage' to Graduate
From: Learning Matters
Series: Paul Vallas in New Orleans
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Khalil Osiris’ “Circle of Courage” is one strategy the Booker T. Washington middle school is using to try and help students stay out of trouble and...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:30
Prime Time Radio weekly show: "Truckin' My Blues Away"
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Prime Time Radio presents "Truckin' My Blues Away," a music-rich documentary that profiles four Southern bluesmen and the folklorist who is working...

Bought by WCNY, KRCB 104.9, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WPSU, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 59:53
  • Purchases: 6
A Black History Month Special Program: "Truckin' My Blues Away"
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
Caption: Little Freddie King, Credit: Barry Yeoman
Prime Time Radio presents "Truckin' My Blues Away," a music-rich documentary that profiles four Southern bluesmen and the folklorist who is working...

Bought by WJAB, KUPR low power FM, WEMU, WCNY, WEMU and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 54:23
  • Purchases: 30
The Torchbearers of the Tidewater Gospel sound
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
Caption: The Paschall Brothers onstage, Credit: Virginia Folklife Program
The Paschall Brothers of Chesapeake sing four-part harmony in a style with a storied tradition.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
An Imperfect Revolution: Voices from the Desegregation Era
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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The 1970s saw a tidal change in American race relations: for the first time, large numbers of white, black and other children of color began attend...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WUFT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WBHM, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 20
Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Marshall had already earned a place in histor...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, WMUU-LP, WFAE, KALW and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 22
Say It Plain: A Century of African American Oratory
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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For generations, African American orators have been demanding justice and equality, reminding America to make good on its founding principles of de...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio, KLCC, WGTE Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 31
Mr. Murdacity
From: Scott Thiry
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Audio documentary- A young white rapper out of North Side Minneapolis.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2009
  • Length: 05:08
Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)
From: Nancy Solomon
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This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...

Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 40

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