PRX - Pieces for Tone: Polished
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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
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
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
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 music that accompanied the historic civil rights march, in March 1965.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 01:52:19
A visit to the home of Mardi Gras Indian Chief Mr. Ike
- Added: Jun 06, 2008
- Length: 04:46
Billy Taylor and Frank Wess talk about great musicians who never left town
- Added: Aug 19, 2007
- Length: 07:36
Explanation of the tradition of choral singing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Bought by WTIP, WEFT, KXOT Public Radio, and WBHM
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 4
Clarence Fountain of the Blind Boys of Alabama talks about gospel singing
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 09:13
- Purchases: 3
And explanation and a demonstration of Zydeco music
Bought by WEFT
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 08:14
- Purchases: 2
James "Super Chikan" Johnson helps explain the Delta Blues
Bought by WEFT
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
The elements that make a Blues
Bought by WCVE
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
How the Blues was spread
Bought by WCVE
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 1
How the blues grew and changed
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 2
Overview of how the Blues became the most important music to develop in Ameica in the 20th century
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 2
Common themes in the Blues
Bought by WCVE
- Added: Aug 03, 2007
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
Profile of William Grant Still, the dean of black classical composers, with excerpts of an interview with his daughter Judy.
- Added: Feb 22, 2006
- Length: 19:57