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Historian Alison Rose Jefferson discusses her book ‘Living The California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During The Jim Crow Era’. She demon...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Monica Jordan and LaTonya Walker at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta, Georgia on May 30th, 2021 for StoryCorps.
Cousins Monica Jordan and LaTonya Walker reflect on their strict upbringing and remember one afternoon when they decided to break the rules.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
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On today’s show we partnered with a young artist named Summer Blake, studying film & television at Drexel University. Summer had the opportunity ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 19:43
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Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 31:58
Caption: Roland Martin
In this year's celebration of Black History Month and the 50th Anniversary of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, author and journali...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 50:32
Caption: Rohulamin Quander at his home in Washington D.C. in 2016 and Alicia Argrett in Madison, Mississippi in 2010., Credit: Rohulamin Quander and Alicia Argrett.
An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
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We feature literature and commentary about the December holiday season from our rich archives. The late Rabbi Gerald Kane discusses the origins of ...

Bought by WDCB and WDCB


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: W. Kamau Bell, San Francisco, CA 12/16/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
W. Kamau Bell talks hidden gems, Bruce Lee’s genius, and how Berry Gordy's THE LAST DRAGON gave him his first meta-moment.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 22:08
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You’ve probably heard by now that TV On the Radio almost gave it all up before deciding to forge ahead, eventually resulting in last year’s Seeds, ...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 07:06
  • Purchases: 3
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The first of the post-college series, this episode brings you Max's roots reggae picks along with exclusive, unreleased material from Stick Figure ...

  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 58:53
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In this episode, Todd and Kim interview Mandisa Thomas, Founder and current President of Black Nonbelievers, Inc., a non-profit fellowship of nonbe...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Many songs, books, and movies focus on love and romance, but what happens when they become one’s only source for learning? Philly Youth Radio’s Jay...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 3
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The wildly diverse and compelling continent of Africa is our focus on this program from December 2009. Discussion centers on WiderNet and the eGra...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:37:56
Caption: “Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club” by Kathy Sloane is published by Indiana University Press.
It was a special time for jazz in the Bay Area. For most of the ‘70s and the early ‘80s, a small club called Keystone Korner presented a dazzling a...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on YO!Radio -- father and son go on 3 million dollar spacewalk, girls outsmart boy and religion is the anti-drug. PLUS: Youth Speaks goes...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:22
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Part 2 of 2 part radio documentary about the legendary New Orleans pianist James Booker

Bought by Prairie Public, NPR Illinois, and WNCU


  • Added: Jun 27, 2008
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 3