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TSSAAPR240410 The Soul Show's regular R&B potpourri
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: Mike Canton, Host/Producer of The Soul Show
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Bought by KCHW


  • Added: Apr 13, 2024
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 1
TSSAAPR230621: Emergent '23 Music from Kassa Overall, Rasheed Ali, more
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
The Soul Show debuts the latest installment of Rasheed Ali's "1968" series, plus creative jazz/hiphop work by Kassa Overall on 2023's "Animals" rel...

Bought by WPVM 103.7, RADIOLEX, WYAP, KCHW, and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 5
TSSAAPR221102 The Soul Show - Stevie Wonder's "Talking Book" at 50
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: Mike Canton, Host/Producer of The Soul Show
Embedded in the usual eclectic mix is an Hour 2 feature on Stevie Wonder's 1972 masterpiece, Talking Book. Enjoy!

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 1
NL 22-39: Trane '62: John Coltrane's Classic Quartet Begins, 9/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Recordings that saxophonist John Coltrane made with Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, and the rhythm section of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jo...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Small Axe
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
Miles & Wayne-Christmas Eve Classics
From: Daniel Polletta
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Longtime WCPN Cleveland/ideastream jazz programmer Dan Polletta has created the 58:30 segmented show “Miles & Wayne: Christmas Eve Classics.” The p...

Bought by WDCB and WCPN


  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:25
  • Purchases: 2
Miss Juneteenth
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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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 Hip-Hop Gospel of Tupac Shakur: Daniel White Hodge
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
Caption: Daniel White-Hodge
Our guest Daniel White Hodge returns to Things Not Seen to discuss his recent book, Baptized in Dirty Water: Reimagining the Gospel According to Tu...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
Reparations: How it Could Happen
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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The question of whether and how to compensate descendants of people formerly enslaved in the United States has hung over the country since the end ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
Joy to the World with Bob Thompson 2019
From: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Series: Joy to the World
Caption: Paula Cole with Bob Thompson and the Bob Thompson Band
Join Jazz pianist Bob Thompson, The Bob Thompson Band and guest vocalist, Paula Cole for a celebration of the holidays!

Bought by WYAP, WCVE, WJAB, WHRV, WUFT and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
Toni Morrison-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Toni Morrison
A tribute to the legendary Toni Morrison, in her own words with music and memories from those whose lives she touched

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 55:39
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 6: #BAWSELady, Lauren Maillian
From: L. Michelle Smith
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This beauty doesn’t have to speak to be heard, but she has something to say. Introducing to few, reintroducing to many Lauren Maillian, best-sellin...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 46:32
Locking Up Our Own
From: Sally Tucker
Series: Thinking CAP
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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
Bluegrass, Blues and Sitting on Top of the World
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Sitting on top of the world has been around a long time. The song was written by Walter Vinson and Sam Chatmon, members of the blues group, the Mis...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:55
Oscar Gold
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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This year saw the Academy Awards ceremony awash in racial controversy.

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Selma Slights More than LBJ
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
There’s been a lot of controversy over the movie Selma and the Academy Awards. Selma is rightfully centered on Dr. King, and has been rightfully cr...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Robert Penn Warren Archive Humanizes Leaders Of The Civil Rights Movement
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Caption: Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren., Credit: Vanderbilt University
In 1964, Southern man-of-letters Robert Penn Warren traveled the country with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and spoke with dozens of men and wo...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
Director Lee Daniels on his film PRECIOUS
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Director Lee Daniels talks to Andrea Chase about making the film, PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 11:35
Jazz Time Vol. 2 - The Best in Mainstream Jazz
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
One hour of classic Jazz in three segments. The show is hosted by Howard Burchette. The sets include vocals and instrumentals.

Bought by WTIP, Spokane Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Sep 29, 2009
  • Length: 58:20
  • Purchases: 3
WTW Texts of Resistance
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
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How did slaves resist their oppression? Three works explore what it means to resist and to survive.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KUOW, KVNF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 24
What's the Word? Hip-Hop in the World
From: Modern Language Association
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Hip-Hop in Cuba, South Africa, and the Islamic world

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMXT and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 10
What's the Word? Poet Michael S. Harper on the Poet's Art
From: Modern Language Association
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Michael S. Harper talks about what he teaches in his poetry classes and reads some his favorite poems.

Bought by WLIW, KUER, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 8
What's the Word? The Blues as Literature
From: Modern Language Association
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Blues lyrics give us unique insight into the African American experience.

Bought by KMUN, WLIW, KMUN, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 22
What's the Word? W. E. B. Du Bois
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
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Considered by many the most important African American leader of the early twentieth century, sociologist, historian, author, teacher, and activist...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KUOW, KVNF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 47