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687.G: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/20/2024 6:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Hiawatha Overture, Op. 30. RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin/Adrian Leaper.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Episode 3 - From the Center of the Donut
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:53
683.L: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/14/2024 11:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including LECUONA: Suite Española, "Andalucía". Grand Rapids Symphony/John Varineau; Rich Ridenour, piano.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 56:59
WoodSongs 1072: Sugar Harp and Gail Ceasar
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Sugar Harp on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Alabama bluesman Sugar Harp plus Piedmont blues artist Gail Ceasar.

Bought by KDLG, KTRL, KMXT, KBRW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 39
An Interview with George M. Johnson
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
George M. Johnson talks about their debut Young Adult memoir All Boys Aren't Blue, the support of their family, their love of Toni Morrison, and th...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 15:31
13-18: Bending Toward Justice: The Arc of Black Lives Matter , 2/8/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Patrisse Cullors
There are periods when history comes to a boil – when powerful forces of both destruction and creation result in massive social change. In 2020, th...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Disruptive Narratives With Dr. Brittany Lewis: A Conversation with Stayci Bell (Part 1)
From: KMOJ-FM
Series: Disruptive Narratives with Dr. Brittany Lewis
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Stayci Bell is a daughter, mother, grandmother, gardener, photographer, actress, puppeteer, healer, leader and story tell. Stayci defines her self ...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:12
A Lesson Before Dying
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 11
StoryCorps Griot: Raynita Snipes Johnson and Gene Robinson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: United States Army veteran Maceo Snipes. He served in World War II, and was murdered shortly after returning home from service., Credit: Courtest of Raynita Snipes Johnson.
Raynita Snipes Johnson remembers her great-uncle, US Army veteran Maceo Snipes, a Black man lynched for voting in 1946.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Willie Edwards Jr. died in 1957. He was killed by Klansmen who told him to either jump off a bridge or be shot., Credit: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 928: John Gorka and War & Treaty
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The power of War & Treaty on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes world-renowned singer-songwriter plus electric husband & wife roots duo W...

Bought by Radio Bristol, WEJP-LP 107.1, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 24
Best of the Best 2020: Towards a Better World
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, we meet extraordinary people who are fighting the system, working to make transformative change and seeking a better world, for th...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
Defying the Odds, This Young Woman Recovers From a Childhood Police Trauma
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1.5, Episode 1 Being mistreated by the police, or seeing a family member mistreated by the police is traumatic, and it can cause lasting pr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 10:59
  • Purchases: 1
These young New Orleans dancers want the police to know they are not a threat
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1 Episode 9 A dance troupe of young, Black, male teens express their fear and anxiety about police and how the police might potentially vie...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:14
  • Purchases: 1
Neddy Smith: Going Forward Through All the Difficulties
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Neddy Smith, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditiona...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:31
The Love Stack
From: George Mocharko
Caption: Marcus Bullock
Marcus Bullock is the founder of the tech app Flikshop—which allows families to communicate digitally with their loved ones in prison. In this clip...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 05:56
Peppermint: Owning Your Confidence
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Peppermint, Credit: Shefik
Identity - The hardest working woman in show business, drag queen and recording artist Peppermint has conquered the New York scene with her high-en...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:29
Bernadette King, the Hula Hoop Queen
From: Shannon Moffett
Caption: Bernadette King, Hula Hoop Queen, Credit: Stephanie Harbin
Once Bernadette King discovered hula-hooping, she wanted only to share the joy of her new pursuit, a joy she's struggling to recapture.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 2
Live From Hill: Lawrence Brownlee and Eric Owens
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Caption: Lawrence Brownlee and Eric Owens
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and bass-baritone Eric Owens in concert at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The preshow "Continuing In Their Footst...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:12:17
WoodSongs 955E: Guy Davis and Fabrizio Poggi and The Affrilachian Poets
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Caption: Guy and Fabrizio pay homage to the legendary blues duo Sonny & Brownie.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues master Guy Davis and Italian harmonica virtuso Fabrizio P...

Bought by WLIW, RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, WEKU, WETS and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 11
The Trouble: Doppelganger
From: WBEZ
Caption: Prison photos of Ricky Amos (left), and the wrongfully incarcerated Richard Jones (right)
Richard Jones was sentenced to 19 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Seventeen years in, he discovers he has a look-alike, with the same...

Bought by KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGCU, KUNM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
To Heaven & Back
From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show
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Pastor Adina Kring was facing death's door, but then...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 52:17
Episode 80: Photo, Hair, Fingerprint
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1988, a man in Hickory, NC was sentenced to life in prison based on evidence that experts would later call “junk science.” It took him 24 years ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 25:43
  • Purchases: 1