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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
Mardi Gras Indian Music
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
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The Musical Tradition of New Orleans' Black Indians

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WTJU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WBHM and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 10
It's King Biscuit Time
From: WKNO
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In an era when media monopolies dominate the airwaves, there still are independent voices and programs. King Biscuit Time is the longest running d...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 08:06
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
Black Classical Masters series: William Grant Still
From: David Person
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Profile of William Grant Still, the dean of black classical composers, with excerpts of an interview with his daughter Judy.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2006
  • Length: 19:57
Chasing After the Hurricane: A Personal Look Into the Life of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - After the Movie.
From: N Lorde
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A personal insight into the life of former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - his life after the blockbuster hit movie.

Bought by KSFR, KSJD, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, and KSFR


  • Added: Jan 08, 2006
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 5
Count Basie
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
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A quick musical look at the career of the Count

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WEKU, 90.5 WSNC, and KGOU


  • Added: Oct 06, 2005
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 4
From Sideman to Stevie Ray
From: KUT
Series: The Godfather
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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
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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
The Ebony Hillbillies
From: Amber Edwards
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The Ebony Hillbillies prove you don?t have to be white and Southern to play authentic, down home country music...they are hip, urban, and black. A...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Public Interactive, WKMS, KCUR and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2005
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 8
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
Ann Meets Mr. Ellington
From: Kerry Seed
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Ann Searcy is a 76-year-old jazz singer. She grew up as one of the only people of color in Old Orchard Beach, Maine where music legend, Duke Elling...

Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), SALTcast Podcast, Iowa Public Radio, WJAB, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 7
The Valentine 1955
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Youth Epiphanies
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Society's problem with race relations is played out between 2 little girls on Valentines Day, 1955.

Bought by KLCC, PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WNCU, PRX Lovesick Stream and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 13
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

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