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Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Director of the Museum of African Art, is a force to be reckoned with
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Credit: Jessica Suworoff, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Johnnetta Cole remembers when she wasn't allowed in museums because of segregation, and that informs her determination to inspire a love of art mu...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Picture Emerges
From: Josh Swartz
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This story explores Michelle Obama's early life, expectations surrounding her ascendency as First Lady, and the impact she will leave on the office...

Bought by WWNO, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WHCP-LP Cambridge, WTJU, CI Dolphin Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 12
I Heart Obama
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Erin Aubry Kaplan
In his nearly two terms as president, Barack Obama has solidified his status, as something black people haven’t had for fifty years: a folk hero.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Playwright Kirsten Greenidge keeps it real
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Playwright Kirsten Greenidge
In her new work Baltimore, playwright Kirsten Greenidge grapples with the issue of race on college campuses.

Bought by WABE, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Jazz Master Archie Shepp-- A Life in Music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Archie Shepp: I Hear the Sound, Credit: Created by WOZNIAK
Archie Shepp shares his musical biography—and his thoughts about the legacy of African-American music.

Bought by KMUW, WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Cultural Critic Rashod Ollison on music and memories
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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In his memoir Soul Serenade, Rashod Ollison describes how music was a lifeline during a difficult upbringing.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Playwright Lynn Nottage unmasks the cost of industrial decline in Sweat
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Scene from Sweat, Credit: C. Stanley Photography
In her new play, Sweat, Lynn Nottage gives voice to the human cost of workers without work.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians: 50 years and still going strong
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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A half-century of musical innovation and self-determination, told by AACM co-founder (currently AACM-New York president) and 2010 NEA Jazz Master M...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WMUU-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 3
Actor Wayne Carr's life on the stage: It was meant to be.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Wayne Carr as Pericles caught in storm at sea., Credit: Teresa Wood
From Pericles to Tupac Shakur, Wayne Carr has the uncanny ability to embody fully-realized characters.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Director and playwright Tazewell Thompson: Bringing it to the stage.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Soloman Howard as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the company of Appomattox at Washington National Opera , Credit: Scott Suchman
Tazewell Thompson may be wowing critics and audiences with his direction of the opera Appomattox, but he’s an equally brilliant theater director an...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Richard Hunt--One of the giants of American sculpture.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Richard Hunt in his studio, Credit: Tom McCormick
Richard Hunt talks about creating large pieces of abstract art for public spaces and reflects on his time on the National Council of the Arts

Bought by WNJR and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Only Black Kid On The Team Learns To Thrive As The Odd One Out
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Fall 2014
Caption: RadioActive producer Jaylen Wheeler at a RadioActive listening party., Credit: JASON PAGANO
Jaylen Wheeler is a student at University Prep in north Seattle. Follow him through his role as the odd one out.

Bought by iPondr and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 2
Detroit As Backdrop For Shakespeare
From: Rendered
Caption: Shakespeare In Detroit's Romeo & Juliet, Credit: courtesy of Shakespeare in Detroit
Sam White saw potential in the drama of a struggling city — a perfect setting for Shakespeare's plays.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 19:51
Jazz great Charles Lloyd takes us on his journey
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The world legend is thrown around a lot, but saxophonist, flutist and composer Charles Lloyd is the real deal. He's much of a musical innovator tod...

Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 4
John's Corner: Homeless in Richmond, Virginia, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: John, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 27:05
Joyce Carol Oates and “The Sacrifice”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
First Novel to TV Series: Author Jason Mott and “The Returned"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2
Filmmaker Sam Pollard celebrates August Wilson.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" Playbill., Credit: Photofest, Inc.
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Black Theater, Black Lives
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bernadine Mitchell in Bessie's Blues, wirtten and directed by Thomas W. Jones II, Credit: Courtesy of Metro Stage
Writer, director, and actor, Thomas W. Jones II makes sense of the world through theater

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Telling Black History with needle and thread, National Heritage Fellow Carolyn Mazloomi
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Carolyn Mazloomi, Credit: Gale Zucker
Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African American community through narrative quilts.

Bought by KDNK, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 40: We Know A Subconscious Habit Of Yours (Code Switching)
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Monthly Podcast
Caption: RadioActive reporters Antonia Dorn and Kadian Vanloo
There’s no such thing as a normal you. Do you talk to your boss the same way you talk to your dog? Probably not. This is called code switching.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 14:57
How My Basement Led Me To The Jazz Scene On Jackson Street
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: E. Russell 'Noodles' Smith, the owner of a famous club in the Central District in the 1900s., Credit: Credit Public domain, via BlackPast.org
RadioActive Reporter Nia Price-Nascimento lives in a house built in the 1920s in the Central District, Seattle's historically African-American neig...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:23
Bridging the Divide
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Janet Cheatham Bell
In her collection of essays, author and publisher Janet Cheatham Bell emphasizes our mutual dependency. It’s about identifying and using the power ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Pepper for Dinner
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, Credit: Earth Flavors
This food-justice-related audio collage features the voices of Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, co-managers of Gardens United, a community gar...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:52
Theater artist Ping Chong shines a spotlight on race in America with Collidescope.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Moriamo Akibu in COLLIDESCOPE , Credit: Stan Barouh
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2