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This time on The Children's Hour we learn from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KRSC, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSTK and more
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 6
It started with one thin dime, and a bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. City busses were segregated back then – whites in the front, Blacks i...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 03:00
This time on The Children's Hour we learn from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...
- Added: Feb 18, 2024
- Length: 58:00
The Children's Hour Kids Crew meets Ms. Caitlyn Gooch from Saddle Up And Read, a North Carolina based organization encouraging literacy through rea...
- Added: Jan 29, 2024
- Length: 58:00
Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and La...
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 20:47
A documentary about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre not only explains the full story of the shameful attack on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa tha...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:23
Black Americans have been major stars of the musical theater since 1906. Who was the first black Broadway star? What was the first all-black musica...
- Added: Feb 05, 2023
- Length: 01:58:00
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 20:23
- Purchases: 1
Longtime WCPN Cleveland/ideastream jazz programmer Dan Polletta has created the 58:30 segmented show “Miles & Wayne: Christmas Eve Classics.” The p...
- Added: Nov 08, 2021
- Length: 58:25
- Purchases: 2
A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:19
The story of marriage equality in the United States, told through two Supreme Court cases.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WCMU Michigan, KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WFAE and more
- Added: Aug 19, 2021
- Length: 51:30
- Purchases: 13
The Queen of Soul earned that title with nearly 60 years of performing under her belt. This is a career-spanning tribute.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 4
The Museum of African American History and Culture is cause for Americans to celebrate. We celebrate the music.
- Added: Jul 03, 2018
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 6
James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...
- Added: Jun 07, 2018
- Length: 24:54
There would be precious few great hits of the '60s and '70s if it weren't for the thrilling sounds of R&B, Soul, Funk and Disco and the black artis...
- Added: Apr 18, 2018
- Length: 01:57:24
- Purchases: 2
Black History: Saluting African American actors who have won the Tony Award for roles in musicals.
- Added: Feb 04, 2018
- Length: 01:56:27
- Purchases: 3
The ancient origins of an American gospel classic,"Children, Go Where I Send Thee," are told through archival recordings from The Library of Congre...
Bought by WUTC
- Added: Jan 21, 2018
- Length: 38:49
- Purchases: 1
With an $800 loan, Berry Gordy, Jr. started what is arguably the most successful independent record company in history, MOTOWN.
- Added: Mar 26, 2017
- Length: 01:57:41
- Purchases: 3
Diana Ross is arguably the most commercially successful female vocalist of the 20th century. Hour 2 of American Jukebox surveys her six decade career.
Bought by WUFT, WEZU, Royalton Community Radio, and KSRQ
- Added: Sep 26, 2016
- Length: 01:56:45
- Purchases: 4
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) (January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was referred to by everyone as the “Greatest” and the “Champ”. This one hour program ...
Bought by KUPR low power FM, KISA Digital Studios, KPIP-LP, WVAS, WJSU and more
- Added: Jun 04, 2016
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 6
The music that accompanied the historic civil rights march, in March 1965.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 01:52:19
In January we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., one of the greatest icons of the 20th century, known by all as the strongest advoca...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Football star Michael Sam made a bit of Black history when he came out as gay this month. To do that ahead of the NFL draft took a lot of courage.
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 02:30
The sounds of classic remastered 78 RPM records fill the air when the music of Illinois Jacquet is presented on the 31th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 59:22
- Purchases: 2
If you think we live in a post-racial world…think again: statistically speaking, being born Black or Latino or Native American is associated with s...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 50:27
