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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Well of Souls," which dives further into the earliest history of the banjo than anyone has gone befo...
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- Added: Feb 10, 2024
- Length: 29:32
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, Morehead State Public Radio, WLRH and more
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 59:03
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February is Black History Month, officially recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976. It was about time. The 1960s had seen crucial economic gai...
- Added: Feb 03, 2024
- Length: 03:00
While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 54:00
How enslaved Americans and Black Americans pushed against the document from the very beginning of our nation’s founding.
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 14:42
While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...
- Added: Mar 08, 2023
- Length: 54:00
While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...
- Added: Sep 22, 2022
- Length: 54:01
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
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
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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...
- Added: Nov 08, 2021
- Length: 58:25
- Purchases: 2
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...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
Perhaps the most landmark of them all.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 30:56
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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
How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history?
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
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We discuss why preserving and expanding historical narratives is important to protecting our future with Cordell Reaves from the New York State Off...
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 34:38
There are clear lines that connect the legacy of slavery to many of our present day issues, including the racial inequities of COVID-19 infection a...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 57:58
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We dig into the history of a once-unacknowledged African burial ground in East New York, Brooklyn, and ask how a new library branch can honor that ...
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 33:36
From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.
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- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 22:24
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Today, Interchange shared segments from three episodes that aired throughout the year – they all three touched on aspects of our current moment wit...
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- Added: Oct 20, 2020
- Length: 58:59
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In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Ben Vinarski and Reese McMichael venture to an abandoned hot...
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 10:59
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series revisits Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, whose 2020 book, CASTE, is now a bestseller. ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDCB, and WRKF
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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This week on World Ocean Radio we share the final episode of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this broadcast we look at the ...
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 05:18
Host Gwen Thompkins makes an exclusive visit to the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, NY, guided through Armstrong’s rare recordings and life...
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- Added: Jul 31, 2020
- Length: 52:00
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As protests over the killing of George Floyd have taken over the streets of every major city, have converted hotels to homeless shelters and best f...
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 59:01
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
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