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TriPod Xtras: Rien Fertel On Flambeaux
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Krewe of Cynthius, 1948 Parade, Flambeau Carriers. , Credit: The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection / The Historic New Orleans Collection
Tripod Xtras feature one on one interviews with special guests. This week’s TriPod episode focuses on Mardi Gras 1946 and the strike of the flambea...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 23:25
Georgetown University Sold 272 Enslaved People To Louisiana: The Descendants Speak (Part II)
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Wm. & Charity Harris are the great grandparents of Sandra Green Thomas. Wm.'s parents, Betsy Ware & Samuel Harris, were two of the 272 people sold by Georgetown University to two Louisiana plantations in 1838. , Credit: Sandra Green Thomas
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part two of its series about one of the largest sales of enslaved people in our country’s history, and an a...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 12:21
Georgetown University Sold 272 Enslaved People To Louisiana: The Descendants Speak (Part I)
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Healy Hall at Georgetown University, Credit: Georgetown University
TriPod: New Orleans @300 returns with the first in a two-part series about one of the largest sales of enslaved people in our country’s history. In...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:50
The New Orleans Scholars Take On The St. Augustine Church
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Coverglass and matt bound together with black paper tape. View looking along the 1200 block of Governor Nicholls Street in Treme, with the church visible in midview. , Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection, Gift of Mrs. Joy Segura, acc. no. 2004.0096.68
This is a special edition of TriPod New Orleans @300. Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson handed the mic over to the New Orleans Scholars, a group of st...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:10
Mother Catherine Seals And The Temple Of The Innocent Blood
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Photograph of Mother Catherine and her congregation at the Temple of the Innocent Blood, ca. 1929. , Credit: Historic New Orleans Collection, made possible by the Clarisse Claiborne Grima Fund.
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a portrait of Mother Catherine Seals, one of the city’s most prominent 20th century spiritual church leaders.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 12:24
Henriette Delille And The Sisters Of The Holy Family
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The entrance to the Sisters of The Holy Family Motherhouse on Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans East, Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson / WWNO
TriPod New Orleans at 300 returns with a story of The Sisters of the Holy Family, the religious order of nuns for free women of color founded by He...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:25
TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: English: Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, oil on canvas painting by Agostino Brunias, ca. 1764-1796, Credit: Agostino Brunias / ArtDaily.org
There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:58
An Absolute Massacre: The 1866 Riot At The Mechanics' Institute
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Riot in New Orleans... the Struggle for the Flag. 900 block Canal Street., Credit: The Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carre Digital Survey at The Historic New Orleans Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns to remember the 1866 massacre at the city’s Mechanics' Institute. It’s part of a series of episodes on the Recon...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 10:23
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190), Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection
It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind of like how it is now, except it was 146 years ago.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 1
Mrs. Hamer, Echoes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Fannie Lou Hamer, Credit: Howard University Library Systems
Fannie Lou Hamer's 100th birthday is Oct 6. She's no longer alive, and may not be as widely known as others in the civil rights movement --- but he...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WVAS, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Thelonious Monk: From Myth to Man (Part 2)
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, presenting the second of a two-part program exploring the life and music of Thelonious Monk, with special gue...

Bought by KMUW, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Thelonious Monk: From Man to Myth (Part 1)
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hourlong program of classic jazz, presenting the first of a two-part program exploring the life and music of Thelonious Monk, with special guest...

Bought by KMUW, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
Portraits of Harlem
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring musical tributes to the so-called “Black Metropolis,” including Duke Ellington’s “Harlem,” Roy Eldr...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, 90.5 WSNC, WUCF, and WCPN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Hunger and Work Strikes
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We learn about the Chicago Community Bond Fund, a group that bails people out of Chicago's Cook County Jail and strives to end pretrial detention....

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:31
Faith Leaders Organizing for Racial Justice and Peaceful Communities
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Three people who are engaged in one part of the community organizing efforts going on around the country to secure racial equity. All three share i...

Bought by KUHF, WUFT, KUOW, and WXDU


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Blues America 59 - Jontavious Willis
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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20 year old Jontavious Willis from Greenville, Georgia is a touring, unrecorded, self-taught mult-instrumentalist who can be seen belting out pre-w...

Bought by Public Radio East and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Blues America 58 - Janiva Magness
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Janiva Magness is one of the most beloved figures in the Americana, blues and roots music world. She’s reached a larger and more diverse audience w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, WART FM, Prairie Public, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Blues America 52 - Jerry Lawson Project 4
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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The Jerry Lawson Legacy Project is an exclusive series for Blues America that explores the history of singing legend Jerry Lawson and the famed Per...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
'The Monster': Claiborne Avenue Before And After The Interstate
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Image created for "The Seventh Ward Creoles of New Orleans," an Arts Council of New Orleans publication. View of elevated highway built on neutral ground of North Claiborne Avenue. At center, a man pulls a grocery cart, Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part two of its highway series. This is the story of the I-10 interstate bridge that sits above Claiborne A...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:17
  • Purchases: 1
Blues America 43 - Francine Reed
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Francine Reed is famous blues singer based in Atlanta. She is best known as the long time regular singing companion of Lyle Lovett and member of Ly...

Bought by Public Radio East, Spokane Public Radio, KDLG, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
In New Orleans, Before Baseball, Football Or Soccer, There Was Raquette
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: In 1834, artist George Catlin witnessed Choctaw lacrosse in Indian Territory near present-day Oklahoma., Credit: GEORGE CATLIN / SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
Laine Kaplan-Levenson returns with a new story about an indigenous sport that became popular before the Civil War.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 10:19
The Secret Basketball Game That Desegregated Louisiana High School Sports
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Purple Knights pose on the court; Harold Sylvester is kneeling next to his coach., Credit: HAROLD SYLVESTER / AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER
In this episode, Laine Kaplan-Levenson discusses the first integrated high school sports contest in Louisiana between St. Aug and Jesuit--and talks...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:26
  • Purchases: 1
Sighting The Sites Of The New Orleans Slave Trade
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans; by William Henry Brooke, engraver; engraving with watercolor from The Slave States of America, vol. 1; London: Fisher and Son, 1842, Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
This episode plots points on the map of the domestic slave trade in New Orleans. Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson visited physical landmarks that bea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:25
  • Purchases: 1
Blues America 39 - Paul Oscher
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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In 1967 Paul Oscher became the first white musician to join a black blues group when he was invited to be an official member of the Muddy Waters Ba...

Bought by Public Radio East, KDLG, KRPS, GCR (Global Community Radio), Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
The R&B Chronicles - Earth, Wind and Fire
From: WHRV
Series: The R&B Chronicles
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Exploration of R&B music

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WDCB, KCSM, WFIU, WDCB and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:18
  • Purchases: 11