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Caption: Toni Tipton Martin making hot rolls.
There’s a whole lot more than recipes in Toni Tipton Martin’s cookbook collection… It contains a surprising culinary history of African Americans i...

Bought by KVLU, WBHM, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 22:28
  • Purchases: 4
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Marc Steiner Show producer Mark Gunnery shares an appreciation and review of the latest John Coltrane release, Offering: Live at Temple University....

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
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What are the origins of this dance? How did it begin? Who are the rising talents of this subculture based on the West Side of Chicago? And how has ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 11:57
Caption: Mike Wiley performing Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.

Bought by KUER and WUNC


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Prison Poetry Workshop
We sat with Reginald Dwayne Betts and listened as he shared his own story of incarceration and his ongoing process of becoming a writer and poet.

Bought by WRGY and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 2
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Since 1996, the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) has organized annual exhibits and led poetry workshop with inmates at Michigan's correctional f...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:25
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Shaun Moore-Bey is a poet, activist, and regular on the Detroit spoken-word circuit. He is working to be a cultural force for his community.

Bought by WRGY and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 2
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Poet Cara Benson leads a powerful writing workshop at the Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility in Saratoga County, New York. We listen in as a group ...

Bought by WRGY and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 21:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Patrick Mathieu
Patrick Mathieu is a New York city based artist who majored in dance at City College of New York and had a successful career as a performer. Then, ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Judith has taught poetry in prisons across the United States and intensively at San Quentin and other California prisons through Arts-in-Correction...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 07:27
Caption: Broadside Press
Poet, publisher, editor, and founder of Broadside Press. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914 in Washington, D.C., but moved to Detroit in 1920 ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 13:42
  • Purchases: 1
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We asked poet Buzz Alexander of University of Michigan's Prison Creative Art Project to record a poetry workshop for us. Prison Poetry Workshop ha...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century an...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 3
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We visited with youth at the Alabama Department of Youth Service in Mount Meigs, AL and met graduates of their program who have continued to write.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 07:36
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Our time with Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop was powerful! D.C. youth who are shipped into the Federal prison system had little contact ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 19:20
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Prison Poetry Workshop
Judith Tannenbaum taught poetry in prisons across the United States and intensively at San Quentin and other California prisons through Arts-in-Cor...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 18:09
  • Purchases: 1
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We met dozens of poets behind bars in our nation's prisons and we sat with formerly incarcerated people like Native New Orleanian, Patrick Young, w...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: San Quentin
We traveled to San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison, to learn about the lasting tradition of arts and spoken word in this well know...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kyes Stevens
We asked poet Kyes Steven of Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to record a workshop for us. Take a listen. Prison Poetr...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lead Belly, Credit: Lead Belly Foundation
We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...

Bought by WWNO and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 50:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project , Credit: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 54:18
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Voices UnBroken, Credit: Voices UnBroken
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dudley Randall
Michigan has always been home to a number of bustling American enterprises, including the prison industry. Each year, the state's correctional faci...

Bought by WWNO and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:27
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Hank Mobley
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe illuminates the importance of those who will not settle for a glory in mediocrity, but who urge others to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Florence Beatrice Price wrote more than 300 musical compositions. Some of her works have been lost, others are unpublished, and some of piano and v...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, WUGA (part of GPB), WFMT Station Account, Troy Public Radio, WVIA and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14