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Dominique Daye Hunter explores her art's inspiration and its role in
challenging the undervaluing of art.
Bought by KSTK, WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB
- Added: Jan 29, 2024
- Length: 58:05
- Purchases: 4
Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 2
Change - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditional styl...
- Added: Jul 10, 2020
- Length: 02:25
On August 10th, 2014, one day after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, Edward Crawford w...
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 16:42
On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls took command of a Confederate ship and liberated himself and his family from enslavement. His great-great-grandson, ...
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 29:27
“The police had surrounded the house. They had been there for quite a while. They didn’t want to try to rush the house because they thought he migh...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 29:07
In today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us down to Lake George to experience the first...
- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 30:36
It's official! The Golden State Warriors are the 2017 NBA Champions! Life of the Law honors the team and each of the players with this special epis...
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 19:38
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...
- Added: Oct 27, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 4
Lana Williams is serving life without parole. Here she describes a typical day.
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 03:39
Oral historian Blanche Girouard talks to John Griffith-Jones about Ugandan missionary stamps and to Anne Willcocks about the Lindy hop
- Added: Apr 18, 2015
- Length: 29:41
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
"When people get two trumpet players it becomes very competitive...It
was [Booker Little], Lee Morgan and myself at the time. We we're the
young ...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 4
"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 16:39
- Purchases: 4
Memorialized in a Bob Dylan song and an Academy Award nominated Denzel Washington film, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a successful prize fighter, wh...
Bought by WEZU, WOUB, NPR Illinois, RadioFreePalmer, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more
- Added: Dec 28, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 28
The "FIVE STAIRSTEPS and CUBIE" was a family pop act who released hit records from 1968 to 1969 on both Curtom and Buddha Records. CUBIE BURKE was ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2011
- Length: 48:54
This is the story of THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS from an original member Dennis Burke. He tells her story and discusses her life in a rare interview.
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 52:41
PART A (1st hour) of Volume #1 of the Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps. Joining Howard Burchette is Clarence Burke, Jr., Clarence Burke, Sr. and...
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 59:04
Baltimore poet and MC Slick Vic Low reflects on his childhood and his longterm relationship with the microphone
Bought by KUCB
- Added: Feb 17, 2006
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
