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863: Docupoetry / 864: Discovering America's Black DNA, 1/13/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Docupoetry" - Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political u...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
835: Astonishing African Futures / 836: You're Not OK. That's OK., 10/7/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," dominated the global box office. This hour, a literary ta...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
813: In Search Of Real Food / 814: Telling A Life, 7/22/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "In Search Of Real Food" - Supermarkets are designed to make you think you have a lot of choices. But do you? This hour, reclaiming real ...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
749: Astonishing African Futures / 750: Thinking With Animals, 12/10/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," is dominating the global box office. This hour, a litera...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Dancing to the Lyrics won Dwayne Ratleff a Best Indie Book Award in the “LGBTQ Coming Of Age” category., Credit: Book cover art by Leann E. Johnson / L&J Graphics
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself....

  • Added: Oct 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Soul Sister: The Limits of Empathy
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
Babo In the Sunshine: Herman Melville and the Tryal Rebellion
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anthony Imbert. Wrapper illustration for “Life in Philadelphia” (ca. 1829-30).
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Tyehimba Jess
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess reads from his multi-award winning poetry book, OLIO, delving into the voices of African American creatives in ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Esi Edugyan, author of "Washington Black"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Esi Edugyan about her novel "Washington Black"

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 30:16
Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On Sept. 27 and 28, the most notable poets of our time will gather in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower ...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, KXCV, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Poetic Justice (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state-- ...

Bought by WSGE, KUHF, Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, and KXCV


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Poetic Justice (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state--...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KMUN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KLCC, KUHF and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 15
Poetic Justice (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state-- ...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WFHB, WTJU, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Poetry That Heals (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Irène Mathieu is a doctor and a poet who says both science and poetry use language that helps her understand deeper truths about the human conditi...

Bought by WCNY, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KALW, KUNM, KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 18
Poetry That Heals (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Irène Mathieu is a doctor and a poet who says both science and poetry use language that helps her understand deeper truths about the human condit...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WLPR and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Writers Voice: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, FRIDAY BLACK & Mark Russell Gelade, NAVIGATING BY STARS
From: Francesca Rheannon
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ana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah talks about his award-winning story collection Friday Black. Then, we talk about the art of the really really short story w...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Drawing History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Amer...

Bought by WCNY, WJAB, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Drawing History (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Ame...

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, Harford Community Radio, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
317: Discovering America's Black DNA / 318: Story Worlds, 10/20/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Discovering America's Black DNA" - What happens when common DNA brings the black and white side of the family together for the first tim...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:59
Muggles Abroad (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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An English professor who loves the Harry Potter books brings a few lucky students each year to London to visit the magical sites in the fantasy ser...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Harford Community Radio, WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 10
253: Discovering America's Black DNA / 254: Short Stories, 3/10/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Discovering America's Black DNA" - What happens when common DNA brings the black and white side of the family together for the first tim...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Revisiting Deliverance (promo)
From: With Good Reason
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How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known works of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated a...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
Revisiting Deliverance (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known works of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated a...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, WLPR , KUHF, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by WCNY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11