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Say I'm Dead
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: E. Dorolas Johnson
Most of us wish to know our family history. Our ancestry. It’s part of understanding and coming to terms with our own identity. But, what if there ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Damaged Heritage
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: J. Chester Johnson
Although the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre in the summer of 1921 is now recognized as part of Americas ugly past, another similar act of carnage of equa...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Educated for Freedom
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Educated for
Permanent subjection or exile. Even the abolitionists of the 1800s beloved those were the options for African-American youth.

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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In 1965, two intellectuals met at Cambridge University for a debate. The topic: “The American dream is at the expense of the American Negro.” The r...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Race and Social Change
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Max Klau
Recent events in America have once again turned the spotlight on the issues of race. Just when we think we are overcoming our racial divide, anothe...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC, and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Celebrating 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellow and African American Quilter Marion Coleman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Marion Coleman, Credit: Tom Pich
2018 National Heritage Fellow Marion Coleman tells stories through her quilts.

Bought by Bandon Community Radio and WJAB


  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:33
  • Purchases: 2
Behind the Scenes with the documentary Personal Statement
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Christine Rodriguez celebrates with a student she is helping apply to college, Credit: Juliane Dressner
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
White Supremacy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Katharine Gerbner
Before the 17th century, being white didn’t even exist as a racial category. The idea of “whiteness” evolved in the slave-based economies of the En...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Blues History #39 - December 23-29
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.

  • Added: Apr 28, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #38 - December 16-22
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile guitarist Big Joe Williams and harmonica ace John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who last recorded together, this week in 1947.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #35 - November 25-December 1
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile Robert Johnson, who made his recording debut the week of Thanksgiving, 1936.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #29 - October 14-20
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time we profile Big Maceo, who recorded his “magnum opus” — the barnstorming instrumental “Chicago Breakdown” — this week in 1945.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #27 - September 30-October 6
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile the Memphis Jug Band, whose 1929 recording, “K.C. Moan,” was one of the 84 selections on the “Anthology of American Folk Music.”

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #20 - August 12-18
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile Sid Hemphill, who was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, this week in 1942.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #9 - May 27-June 2
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile Eddie Boyd, who recorded the only national chart hit for Chicago's J.O.B. label, this week in 1952.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates singer Dianne Reeves--2018 NEA Jazz Master.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dianne Reeves, Credit: jerry Madison
Jazz singer Dianne Reeves believes in making music without boundaries.

Bought by WMPG and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 29:44
  • Purchases: 2
This Week in Blues History #4 - April 22-28
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile Sleepy John Estes, who ran into a little difficulty making his way to a recording session in New York City, this week in 1938.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates actor and voice artist Dion Graham
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dion Graham, Credit: JoAnne Perrin
Actor Dion has narrated hundreds of audio books and is an aural shape-shifter.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates new film about Rosa Parks
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Meta Golding as Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement, Credit: Courtesy of TVOne
Actress Meta Golding takes on the role of a lifetime: Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNJR, and KVNF


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 27:18
  • Purchases: 3
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates independent film.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rob Meyer
Director Rob Meyer talks about the making of the independent film, Little Boxes.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates director Kyle Donnelly
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kyle Donnelly
Director Kyle Donnelly sees theater as interpretive history.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 26:59
The Ada Decades
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paula Martinac
It’s not often I interview the author of a novel on this program. Sometimes, though, a work of fiction can give us insights and perspectives a non-...

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview w/ poet ELIZABETH ALEXANDER about her memior "The Light of the World"
From: Out of Bounds
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Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir "The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates jazz great Sonny Rollins
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sonny Rollins, Credit: John Abbott
It's Sonny Rollins 87th birthday and he sat down with the NEA's Josephine Reed to talk about his life in music.

Bought by KWMR and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with four time Tony Award winner Ron Simons
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ron Simons
Ron Simons became a producer to shine a light on untold stories.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 1