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Mother Catherine Seals And The Temple Of The Innocent Blood
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Photograph of Mother Catherine and her congregation at the Temple of the Innocent Blood, ca. 1929. , Credit: Historic New Orleans Collection, made possible by the Clarisse Claiborne Grima Fund.
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a portrait of Mother Catherine Seals, one of the city’s most prominent 20th century spiritual church leaders.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 12:24
Henriette Delille And The Sisters Of The Holy Family
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The entrance to the Sisters of The Holy Family Motherhouse on Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans East, Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson / WWNO
TriPod New Orleans at 300 returns with a story of The Sisters of the Holy Family, the religious order of nuns for free women of color founded by He...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:25
TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: English: Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, oil on canvas painting by Agostino Brunias, ca. 1764-1796, Credit: Agostino Brunias / ArtDaily.org
There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:58
An Absolute Massacre: The 1866 Riot At The Mechanics' Institute
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Riot in New Orleans... the Struggle for the Flag. 900 block Canal Street., Credit: The Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carre Digital Survey at The Historic New Orleans Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns to remember the 1866 massacre at the city’s Mechanics' Institute. It’s part of a series of episodes on the Recon...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:23
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190), Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection
It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind of like how it is now, except it was 146 years ago.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 1
Hunger and Work Strikes
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We learn about the Chicago Community Bond Fund, a group that bails people out of Chicago's Cook County Jail and strives to end pretrial detention....

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:31
Faith Leaders Organizing for Racial Justice and Peaceful Communities
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Three people who are engaged in one part of the community organizing efforts going on around the country to secure racial equity. All three share i...

Bought by KUHF, WUFT, KUOW, and WXDU


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Blues America 59 - Jontavious Willis
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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20 year old Jontavious Willis from Greenville, Georgia is a touring, unrecorded, self-taught mult-instrumentalist who can be seen belting out pre-w...

Bought by Public Radio East and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Blues America 58 - Janiva Magness
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Janiva Magness is one of the most beloved figures in the Americana, blues and roots music world. She’s reached a larger and more diverse audience w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, WART FM, Prairie Public, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Blues America 52 - Jerry Lawson Project 4
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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The Jerry Lawson Legacy Project is an exclusive series for Blues America that explores the history of singing legend Jerry Lawson and the famed Per...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
'The Monster': Claiborne Avenue Before And After The Interstate
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Image created for "The Seventh Ward Creoles of New Orleans," an Arts Council of New Orleans publication. View of elevated highway built on neutral ground of North Claiborne Avenue. At center, a man pulls a grocery cart, Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part two of its highway series. This is the story of the I-10 interstate bridge that sits above Claiborne A...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:17
  • Purchases: 1
Blues America 43 - Francine Reed
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Francine Reed is famous blues singer based in Atlanta. She is best known as the long time regular singing companion of Lyle Lovett and member of Ly...

Bought by Public Radio East, Spokane Public Radio, KDLG, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
In New Orleans, Before Baseball, Football Or Soccer, There Was Raquette
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: In 1834, artist George Catlin witnessed Choctaw lacrosse in Indian Territory near present-day Oklahoma., Credit: GEORGE CATLIN / SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
Laine Kaplan-Levenson returns with a new story about an indigenous sport that became popular before the Civil War.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 10:19
The Secret Basketball Game That Desegregated Louisiana High School Sports
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Purple Knights pose on the court; Harold Sylvester is kneeling next to his coach., Credit: HAROLD SYLVESTER / AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER
In this episode, Laine Kaplan-Levenson discusses the first integrated high school sports contest in Louisiana between St. Aug and Jesuit--and talks...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:26
  • Purchases: 1
Blues America 39 - Paul Oscher
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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In 1967 Paul Oscher became the first white musician to join a black blues group when he was invited to be an official member of the Muddy Waters Ba...

Bought by Public Radio East, KDLG, KRPS, GCR (Global Community Radio), Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Blues America 37 - Jerry Lawson Project 3
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Jerry Lawson was the lead singer, arranger and producer of the famed Persuasions for 40 years before launching a solo career at the age of 71.

Bought by Public Radio East, KDLG, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Blues America 34 - Guy Davis
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Guy Davis is an award winning blues-roots musician and the son of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. He talks about his new album, Kokomo Kidd.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, KDLG, WART FM, WEAA and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Blues America 27 - Alabama Mike
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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The downhome blues singer Alabama Mike is a “church house” tenor who was a Blues Award nominee for Traditional Male Artist of the Year by the Blues...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, KDLG, WEAA and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 54:20
  • Purchases: 6
Blues America 22 - The Jerry Lawson Legacy Project 2
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Jerry Lawson documents his early days in New York and discusses songs from the Persuasions first album, Acappella (1970, Reprise/Straight Records).

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), KDLG, KPIP-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 54:20
  • Purchases: 5
Bloodier Than Tarantino: The Real Slave Narrative and Its Complexities
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:51
Deadly Force: Police Shootings
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Police Lights, Credit: JJ https://www.flickr.com/photos/tattoodjay/4172577749/in/photolist-7mHxZF-ntjU6o-BA5dw-4YVuiR-4oxk3p-9WvKAJ-6aAVL8-4TriEc-9RxFf5-cX9PJ7-9FWBUQ-9iVSZY-3JGAkJ-aA7muZ-5Z6ysn-NajHv-97f5km-7NV3qB-dhhs8s-fjfh3-9Ra8Si-nZLv2P-HjZTJ-hrc2rF-cbcHJ5-bW6YvQ-4kV4bM-7y
Why are so many of those killed by police young people of color? A recent ProPublica investigation found that a young black male is at twenty one t...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
How Americans Make Race
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
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Whether looking at the 1920s or 2013, people's behavior and attitudes toward race are often influenced by factors beyond their own experience and c...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2013
  • Length: 15:45
Union Graze, Baltimore's Newest Farmer's Market
From: Mark Gunnery
Series: Sound Bites on Delmarva
Caption: Denzel Mitchell of Five Seeds Farm and Apiary
Sound Bites on Delmarva producer Mark Gunnery visits Baltimore's newest farmer's market, Union Graze, and catches up with a farmer, a farm intern, ...

Bought by WCSU-FM and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 09:05
  • Purchases: 2