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Lady T: Remembering Teena Marie (Part A)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Teena Marie
A discussion with the late TEENA MARIE (March 5, 1956 – December 26, 2010). She discusses her long career and her rich musical history. This interv...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2009
  • Length: 59:43
Honeyboy Edwards - blues legend talks about hoboing through the great depression
From: Gianluca Tramontana
Series: Sitting With Gianluca
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Ninety-four year-old Blues legend recalls his almost thirty years as a boxcar hobo and gambler.

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 18, 2009
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 2
From Out Of The Blues
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A profile of a blues musician in Maine.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1
Aha Moment: Underground Railroad
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
A mother's interview
From: Nurudeen Titilope
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:49
Black and African
From: Making Contact
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African immigrants are the fastest growing segment of the black population in the U.S. On this edition, we meet Mauton Akran, a Nigerian immigrant ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, XRAY.fm, WCSU-FM, and WNCU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Inside the Capoeiristas' Circle
From: Aaron Henkin
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A profile of a centuries-old martial art with roots that go back to Angola, Africa

  • Added: Apr 03, 2008
  • Length: 18:30
Dock Ellis Pitches a No-No
From: Neille Ilel
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An Alternate Take on Drugs and Baseball

Bought by KCRW, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 06:23
  • Purchases: 3
Rediscovering Barbara Jordan
From: KUT
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One-hour documentary about the life and legacy of Barbara Jordan, the first black woman from the South to serve in the U.S. Congress.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2008
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 3
Mississippi Porches (3:30)
From: Jake Warga
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Life on Mississippi Porches

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 22, 2007
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 1
Now Jumping Back to the Pool
From: LA Lands
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This piece focuses on memories of the pool in South Rome, an historically black neighborhood in Rome (Floyd County), Georgia.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2007
  • Length: 02:03
Me and Hank
From: Homelands Productions
Series: World Views
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The story of a boy and his hero, baseball home run champion Hank Aaron, and an exploration of the hatred Aaron endured in chasing a white man's rec...

Bought by WXDU, KFAI Minneapolis, KISU, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2007
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 8
Not All Bad things
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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A twelve year-old's audio diary about life with a mom in prison.

Bought by The Story, KGLT, KLCC, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 4
Experiencing the Blues: A Profile of Miss Lavelle White
From: KUT
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A pioneer of Texas rhythm and blues tells her story

  • Added: Feb 06, 2007
  • Length: 09:55
Program 20: Journey's End
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy Turner was proud of her heritage and understood the value of her family tradition. This is the concluding program in the series, Journey's End.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 2
Program 19: Alec Turner's Funeral
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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At the time of Alec Turner's death in 1923, Journey's End had been his home for 50 years.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Program 18: Daisy's Near Marriage
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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At 40 Daisy became engaged to Joseph Bonet. When he later broke off the engagement, Daisy sued him--and won!

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
Program 17: A New Year's Recitation
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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By the turn of the century the Turner household had become a kind of community social center. This program explores the texture of these gatherings.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KGOU, PRX to iTunes, and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 4
Program 16: Daisy's Premonition
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy and her father were so close that she felt they could communicate psychically. This program details such an event.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 2
Program 15: Daisy Turner Goes to Market
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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When a Boston market owner attempts to cheat her father, Daisy travels to Boston to confront him.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 2
Program 14: Daisy's Black Doll
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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As a girl, Daisy Turner faces discrimination at school and confronts it directly--with poetry.

Bought by KZYX, PRX to iTunes, and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 3
Program 13: How Daisy's Sister Shot the Bull
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy suffered from rickets as a child and during her younger years was unable to walk. At a young age she heard prayers, recitations, hymns, and s...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
Program 12: Alec Turner, the Strong Man
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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In this episode Alec Turner accepts a challenge and performs a dramatic feat of strength.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
Program 11: Coming to Vermont
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Alec Turner and his wife, Sally settle in Vermont on the farm he called Journey's End.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
Program 10: The Slate Quarry
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Alec and Sally Turner lived for a time in Williamsburg, Maine, as members of a colony of freed slaves who worked in the Merrill slate quarry there.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 2