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The first electric Blues artist to use a Fender Stratocaster given to him by Leo Fender himself.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Leon Lee Dorsey's album "Thank You Mr. Mabern" is a tribute to the late pianist Harold Mabern, featuring recordings Dorsey made with Mabern and dru...
Bought by Raven Radio, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMUN, WMOT and more
- Added: Feb 24, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
This week on On Story, filmmakers Ali Leroi and Stanley Kalu discuss the process of bringing The Obituary of Tunde Johnson to the screen. And later...
- Added: Feb 24, 2021
- Length: 54:00
Join us as author Fatima Shaik uncovers the hidden history of a free Black brotherhood that was almost lost forever.
- Added: Feb 21, 2021
- Length: 24:52
Traffic lights, a hair relaxant, gas masks, the zig-zag stitch on sewing machines...all of these important inventions have one thing in common, Gar...
- Added: Feb 21, 2021
- Length: 05:57
These remarkable women have worked to overcome both gender and racial bias in order to give voice to their music. Their names may not be familiar,...
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 58:29
Priscilla McCutcheon talks about her research on Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm, and we learn how to eat well when the power is out.
- Added: Feb 18, 2021
- Length: 53:59
Music from harpist Brandee Younger and bassist Dezron Douglas from their album "Force Majeure," taken from live-streaming performances from their h...
Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMUN and more
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
We're talking about chess on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries! We'll join Warren Woodberry, the founder of multiple award-winning aft...
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 06:04
Join World Footprints as we explore the story of Black Americans’ fight for freedom and equality with U.S. Civil Rights Trail guide author Deborah ...
Bought by WHFR
- Added: Feb 15, 2021
- Length: 30:54
- Purchases: 1
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Recorded at Decca Studios late one night into the early morning hours in 1947, three Chicago musicians reminisced their former times in early 20th ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 01:52:28
Experts have warned us that COVID-19 is just one example of climate change-related diseases on the rise. And while climate disruption, environmenta...
Bought by WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, WDSE and more
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 10
Experts have warned us that COVID-19 is just one example of climate change-related diseases on the rise. And while climate disruption, environmenta...
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 58:57
We discuss why preserving and expanding historical narratives is important to protecting our future with Cordell Reaves from the New York State Off...
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 34:38
Tunes and tales of African American musical greats including Otis Spann, Little Walter, Big Mama Thornton, Peter Tosh, Billy Preston, Les McCann & ...
- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 2
Some historical recordings from another era.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 58:58
A revisit to a great album by Buddy Guy recorded in 2001.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 59:54
Blues music has been his world most of his life.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 57:23
A Bluesman who plays gospel as well as blues.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 59:58
Up next on Making Contact we turn our attention to those Americans who are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus fallout. According to the CDC, Blac...
- Added: Dec 22, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The term food desert implies that it’s naturally occurring--but is it?
- Added: Dec 17, 2020
- Length: 53:58
a new album "Cry Out" — strong new blues songs from singer and songwriter Kat Riggins —and several selections from a great debut album, "Omega," fr...
Bought by WMOT, KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 09, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
A new book by Marcia Chatelain complicates the relationship between McDonald’s and the Black community.
- Added: Dec 03, 2020
- Length: 53:58
A classic rocker's take on some songs of Muddy Waters.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 59:58
- Purchases: 1
