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Caption: "Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party" [https://www.flickr.com/photos/36521980095@N01/52743460491] , Credit: by danxoneil, licensed under CC BY 2.0
On today’s Making Contact, our friends from the podcast, Kerning Cultures, bring us “Black Panthers in Algeria.” It’s the story of when Elaine Mokh...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks and the ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Music specials host Paul Ingles talks with music author Peter Neff, whose 2019 biography of under-appreciated singer/songwriter Fred Neil, tells th...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WRVO Public Media, WUTC, KUHF, KSJE and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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We are the universe experiencing itself, as told by a world class student of the cosmos.

Bought by KSTK, KKWE Niijii Radio, WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 5

  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 4
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A new film tells how New Yorkers, led by Frances Goldin, won a 50-year housing struggle against developer Robert Moses.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, WNYE, and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: "GOD ONLY KNOWS:  The Story of Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the California Myth" book by David Leaf
Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles talks with filmmaker and author David Leaf about Leaf's 2022 book called "GOD ONLY KNOWS: The Story o...

Bought by KFSK, KAAD-LP, WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles talks with musician and author John Kruth about Kruth's 2023 book called "LUNACY: The Curious Phenome...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KBBI Alaska, WRVO Public Media, KSJE, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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For ten years, the Armed Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) radio served as a lifeline to "home" for the millions who served in Vietnam and southeast Asia.

Bought by KSRQ, KFSK, WABE, WMNR, KCNP and more


  • Added: May 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 7
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A documentary about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre not only explains the full story of the shameful attack on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa tha...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:23
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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
Caption: Lynyrd Skynyrd (1977)
On this MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE episode, it's the second of a two-part edition from our occasional series TALK MUSIC WITH ME. We dig back a few deca...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KFSK, KUPR low power FM, WRVO Public Media, KUHF and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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An Historic early recording of Janis Joplin and Jorma Kaukonen

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
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A great Blues musician who deserves recognition for his contribution to the genre.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Muddy Waters went back to his bare roots on this 1964 album "Folk Singer".

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 57:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 21:04
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Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Charlie Musselwhite has been playing the blues for over 60 years. His latest project takes him back to his roots in Mississippi.

Bought by WLPR and WLPR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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NOTE: JD SOUTHER PASSED SEPT 17 2024. AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS PROGRAM WITH THREE MENTIONS OF HIS PASSING IS NOW AVAILABLE HERE AT PRX . An hou...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Texas Public Radio, KFSK, KUHF, KSJE and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
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Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Music is a powerful universal language where white musicians and black musicians come together, protect and stand by each other to create something...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 34:06