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The image of the Mississippi Delta the public usually gets is one of poverty-- or of cotton fields. But, on a search for women like her grandmother...
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 25:16
- Purchases: 2
Black-eyed peas and collards. Fried chicken and peach cobbler. Customers at Delicious Southern Cuisine in Los Angeles come for these soul food sta...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 27:08
- Purchases: 2
King Stories is a one hour documentary of captivating stories told by close friends and associates of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Host Julian Bond,...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRWG, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 54:26
- Purchases: 88
What does *not* eating meat say about you? In one young biracial man’s family, his dietary change was construed as white, elite, even feminine. In ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 24:40
- Purchases: 3
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
Elizabeth “Libba” Cotton’s “Freight Train” was the unofficial anthem of the 1960’s folk music revival. Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, and Jerry Ga...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 12:12
- Purchases: 1
Charleston, South Carolina has become the center of discussions about race and violence in America these past few weeks. But a dinner party held in...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 28:18
- Purchases: 3
Sam White saw potential in the drama of a struggling city — a perfect setting for Shakespeare's plays.
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 19:51
Lady E lost just about everything that gave her life meaning and then she found something else inside her. Her voice.And now Lady E sings the blues...
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 27:23
If James Brown was the Godfather of Soul, George Clinton remains the undisputed Crown Prince of Funk.
Parliament-Funkadelic. Flashlight. The Mothe...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 04:59
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
There’s a whole lot more than recipes in Toni Tipton Martin’s cookbook collection… It contains a surprising culinary history of African Americans i...
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 22:28
- Purchases: 4
Shelton Johnson is a ranger at Yosemite National Park. He’s part Cherokee, part African American, and part Seminole. And he’s used his background ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 08:28
- Purchases: 2
Marc Steiner Show producer Mark Gunnery shares an appreciation and review of the latest John Coltrane release, Offering: Live at Temple University....
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Eleanor Warren talks about her song, "Coming Home."
- Added: Nov 02, 2014
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 2
What are the origins of this dance? How did it begin? Who are the rising talents of this subculture based on the West Side of Chicago? And how has ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 11:57
Joshua Sirotiak seeks out the history of Second Line Jazz culture in New Orleans. Along the way, he finds a few answers to questions about his own ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 2
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
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:22
- Purchases: 2
Memories of an African-American swimming pool and dance club in the Jim Crow south.
- Added: Jun 16, 2014
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 2
In 1892 African American school teacher Carrie Williams and her lawyer, J.R. Clifford sued the white county school board for discrimination. Noneth...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 03:11
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 15:29
