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An extended trailer to the upcoming public radio documentary, produced by Paul Ingles, on the early emergence and on-going stellar career of musici...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: May 21, 2022
  • Length: 10:42
  • Purchases: 2
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This program was recorded on February 19, 2016. Who we are and where we come from is a crucial question that now we are more able to answer than e...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Originally Broadcast: February 13, 2012 The exodus of approximately six million black people from the American South between 1915 and 1970 had a s...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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This week on On Story, filmmakers Ali Leroi and Stanley Kalu discuss the process of bringing The Obituary of Tunde Johnson to the screen. And later...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Mavis Staples
Hour 2 of a music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 194...

Bought by KFSK, KNCT FM, Capital Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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A hour-long program of jazz music, exploring the music of African-American singing ensembles in the decades of the Great Depression and the Second ...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, WEZU, and WNCU


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Black History Special A one-hour program of jazz music, exploring the black-pride movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Perfect for Black Hi...

Bought by WNMU-FM, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WMOT and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Mavis Staples, Credit: Michael Ochs Archives
A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...

Bought by KRVS, KNCT FM, WDDE, WVIA, WILL and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 25
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9 minute preview of the upcoming 1 or 2 hour special celebrating the musical journey of Mavis Staples, lead vocalist for the legendary Staples Sing...

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 09:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s ir...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2021
  • Length: 18:16
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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
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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
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At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...

Bought by KVNF and KCNP


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Blind Tom Wiggins, Credit: www.bookforum.com
"Ebony Classics - The Color Rainbow" continues displaying the music of people of color in the Classical music industry.

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:40
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 30:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Slow Streets' hit a bump in Oakland and turned into something better.

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This time on Peace Talks Radio, we’ll talk about ways that countries have addressed systematic human rights violations after they emerge from perio...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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From walking a horse 6 miles on a rail trail, to transporting 24 sheep in the back of a Chrysler minivan, these young farmers will find a way to ge...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
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A generational discussion in 2002 about the American Dream

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 24:21
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How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history? Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...

Bought by WFHB and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
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Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is arguably the most consequential social insult in ...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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In part 2 of our conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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This week on On Story, filmmakers Ali Leroi and Stanley Kalu discuss the process of bringing The Obituary of Tunde Johnson to the screen. And later...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Priscilla McCutcheon talks about her research on Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm, and we learn how to eat well when the power is out.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 53:59