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This time we profile James “Beale Street” Clark — barely a footnote in blues history — who recorded an enduring classic, this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Windy City keyboard legend Little Johnny Jones, who was in the studio with Muddy Waters and Leroy Foster in 1949.
- Added: Apr 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, who recorded an iconic slice of down home blues, "That's All Right," this week in 1946.
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi guitarist Tommy Johnson, who cut one of the prophetic masterpieces of the blues, this week in 1928.
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 03:29
American virtuoso Jason Moran is a genius jazz pianist known for performing experimental compositions in collaborative projects with visual artists...
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 18:11
This time, we profile Saunders King and Elder Utah Smith — two early pioneers of the electric guitar.
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton explores the education of famous artists John Biggers and Samella Lewis.
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 50:20
Pastor Adina Kring was facing death's door, but then...
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 52:17
Troy Williams and scholars Rebecca McClennan, Keramet Reiter, Ashley Rubin, and Heather Thompson drove about an hour away to San Quentin State Pris...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 48:26
What does it take to win an NBA Championship? On Monday night, June 12th, Oakland's Golden State Warriors, aka "Dub Nation" silenced the Cleveland ...
- Added: Jun 28, 2017
- Length: 44:31
It's official! The Golden State Warriors are the 2017 NBA Champions! Life of the Law honors the team and each of the players with this special epis...
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 19:38
What does color of skin have to do with equal access to justice in America? The Equal Protection Clause, part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitu...
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 48:40
For decades, studies have shown African-American students are disciplined more often and with greater consequences than their white peers. Now, a n...
Bought by KENW, WOUB, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 26, 2017
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 3
Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Negro Leagues -- home to some of the greatest untold stories in baseball.
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 4
We may be in a period of historic closeness between Russia and the United States, but there was a time when hundreds of African-American scientists...
Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 10, 2017
- Length: 04:02
- Purchases: 4
When NASA wanted to put a man on the moon, they naturally turned to the brightest — and whitest. That is, until the brilliant Katherine Johnson dem...
Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 4
David Grannum is a 16-year-old ballet dancer in Fall River, Massachusetts. He’s only been dancing ballet for four years but he’s caught the attenti...
- Added: Dec 11, 2016
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 2
We tend to remember Maya Angelou for her activism in the United States. But a recent tribute at James Madison University showed her poetry’s global...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 03:12
- Purchases: 3
J. California Cooper loved playing with paper dolls--even as an adult.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 01:00
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
On fifty-two square miles of rural land in Kankakee County Illinois there is a unique sand savannah sandwiched between corn and soybean fields wher...
- Added: Aug 09, 2015
- Length: 11:26
- Added: Jun 22, 2015
- Length: 18:27
- Purchases: 1
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 27:33
RadioActive Reporter Nia Price-Nascimento lives in a house built in the 1920s in the Central District, Seattle's historically African-American neig...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 06:23
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
