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Bill Withers: Just As He Is
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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A deep look into the late Bill Withers early life in music that set up the making of his debut album, "Just As I Am." Please consider this free on...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, WOMR, WKMS, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Blues America 126 - Billy Preston
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Despite his amazing legacy, Billy Preston is nearly forgotten in the mainstream and is not in the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame. Author Steve Bergsman d...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Raven Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, Public Radio East and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 10
New Orleans' Hidden Black History
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: Celebrating Black History with World Footprints
Caption: Mardi Gras Indian costume at New Orleans' African American Museum., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
World Footprints uncovers the little known stories about African American history in New Orleans from the largest slave rebellion in 1811 to the cu...

Bought by WWFM, WAER Syracuse, NY, and KISA Digital Studios


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 3
Buffalo Soldiers ride on
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Reverend Jeff Moore blesses biker, Credit: Leila Day
Cheryl Morgan is in her kitchen wrapping cookies. Each one is shaped like a buffalo. “They are brown sugar cinnamon, hand-painted buffaloes,” she ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
A park ranger and Buffalo Soldier
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Yosemite National Park ranger Shelton Johnson in uniform as a "Buffalo Soldier."
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
Black and Navy Blue
From: Richard Paul
Caption: Alton Adams, Credit: scanned by Mark Clague (Professor University of Michigan) from his private collection.
The African-American Pioneers of Navy Music

  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 15:29
With New Focus, Episcopal Church Of Louisiana Addressing A History Of Racism
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Caption: Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church., Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
The Episcopal Church of Louisiana spent the past year making plans for a new ministry, aiming to address its history of racism, as well as other fo...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
12 YEARS A SLAVE -- Lupita Nyong'o Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Lupita Nyong'o, San Francisco, CA 10/12/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lupita Nyong’o talks honoring the characters, giving voice to the voiceless, and meeting Solomon Northup’s descendants.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Dec 01, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Hidden History of a One Room School
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Harrington School, Credit: PGraitcer
When the tiny African American community on Georgia's St Simon's Island set out to save its one-room schoolhouse, it didn't realize that the buildi...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 1
Following Harriet Tubman
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's News Features
Caption: The Bucktown Village Store where Harriet Tubman received a head injury that would impact her entire life, Credit: courtesy of Andrew Hiller
This feature explores the life and some of the myths of Harriet Tubman with interviews by experts from Cambridge, MD, the town where "Moses" was bo...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 3
Searching for Roots
From: Philip Graitcer
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Searching for African American ancestors is not easy

  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:28
Last Call for Alcohol
From: KCUR
Series: KC Currents
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Jazz was born in Kansas City during the prohibition, but what happens when 1920s-era hangout stops serving liquor?

  • Added: May 02, 2007
  • Length: 06:46
Darondo
From: Chris Roose
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A long-lost Bay Area soul singer, newly found.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WMPG


  • Added: Mar 12, 2006
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 2
From Sideman to Stevie Ray
From: KUT
Series: The Godfather
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Part one of a two-part special on W.C. Clark, the Godfather of Austin Blues and Soul

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 1
A Place of His Own
From: KUT
Series: The Godfather
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Part 2 of a two-part special on W.C. Clark, the Godfather of Austin Blues and Soul.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 06:23
Chuck Berry and Rock & Roll
From: Lester Graham
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The history of Chuck Berry and rock & roll.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, 90.5 WSNC, WHQR, and Public Radio East


  • Added: Jan 05, 2005
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 4
DNA evidence leads to freedom.
From: David Barasoain
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Prisoner freedom after a 17 year wrongful conviction.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2004
  • Length: 06:30
Civil War Widows
From: Radio Diaries
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Alberta Martin and Daisy Anderson are the last living Civil War Widows.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Vocalo.org, Connecticut Public (WNPR), The Story, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2003
  • Length: 12:59
  • Purchases: 14