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EP168 Blues in the Mississippi Night by Alan Lomax
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Recorded at Decca Studios late one night into the early morning hours in 1947, three Chicago musicians reminisced their former times in early 20th ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:52:28
Professor Longhair's Legacy
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Professor Longhair, Credit: Michael P. Smith © The Historic New Orleans Collection
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 1
Bonus Minis
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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These are three shorter segments of different lengths that focus on early innovation in Black public media. These segments can be aired separately;...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, RadioStPete Florida, WORT, Morton College Radio, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 15:37
  • Purchases: 27
From Nothing, Into Something
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Fall 2020
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This story shows the process and the drastic change from an alcoholic and addict to a wife , a mother , a grandmother, 12 year recovering addict an...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 07:29
Hour Four: "A Woman's Touch" and "In Control"
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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Women -- both on and off the air -- have had substantial roles in the development and power of Black radio, including African American station owne...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WCQS and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 70
Hour Three: "Rappers & Rhymers" and "Sounding Black"
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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From the 1940s onward, legendary Black deejays created unique, ear-catching styles.

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 71
Hour One: "In the Beginning" and "Pride & Enlightenment"
From: PRX
Series: "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series)
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The series opens by traveling to the 1920s to hear how Black Americans fought for space on radio airwaves. Then, we hear about programs in the 1940...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KRSC, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 79
Episode 26: The Kinseys
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 31:58
Attica as a Moment of Abolitionist Imagination
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Last week marked the 49th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. In this episode of Kite Line, we finish our conversation with Dr. Orisanmi Bu...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
A Positive Demand for Another World- Reflections on the Attica Prison Uprising
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week marks the 49th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, when 1300 prisoners in New York state overcame physical, social, and political barrier...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Episode 146: Ten Doors
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:22
Episode 143: Knock and Announce
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“I didn’t do what they said I did. And it was like, I don’t know how to disprove the police. I mean, it’s my word against theirs. I don’t really st...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 33:00
EP155 Paul Rodgers "Muddy Water Blues"
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A classic rocker's take on some songs of Muddy Waters.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 1
Marching Onward
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 22:24
  • Purchases: 2
Best of the Best 2020: Letters to a Young Poet
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
Best of the Best 2020: Of Bodies & Minds
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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This hour features three intimate stories that grapple with the messiness and the triumph of existing as a person, from the outside body to the ins...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 36
“Being an artist is not a cakewalk.” Marlos E'van bridges art and community
From: Melissa Saenz Gordon
Caption: Marlos E'van standing in front of his North Nashville mural, "Fighters." , Credit: Photo by Melissa Saenz Gordon
A story about North Nashville contemporary artist Marlos E'van, who uses the social-practice art form to build community.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
Best of the Best 2020: Towards a Better World
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, we meet extraordinary people who are fighting the system, working to make transformative change and seeking a better world, for th...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
Best of the Best 2020: The Great Indoors
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, three winning stories of the 2020 Third Coast/RHDF Competition each paint a unique portrait of survival and hope in the time of co...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, Prairie Public, New England Public Media, WGBH Radio Boston, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
White Privilege: A Courageous Conversation with Curtis Linton
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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When it comes to racism, many white Americans can intellectualize it and some can personalize it through the experience of others but the real chan...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:05
The Lynching of Emmett Till - An Interview with Devery Anderson
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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His lynching was said to have propelled the Civil Rights Movement but what really happened to the 14 year old boy from Chicago and what can we lear...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:47:41
White Rage - A Conversation with Carol Anderson
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Her book is back on the NYT Best Seller list and for a very good reason. “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” as been called both ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 02:17:15
Talking About Race and Racism
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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How should we talk about race and racism in America when the divide between Black and white can be so vast?

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:08:18
Who Should Own the Narrative
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Who should own the narrative when it comes to talking about slavery and Jim Crow? Lance Wheeler, is the former Curator of Exhibition & Interpreters...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 53:24
The N-Word
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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The n-word is loaded with a history of hate and death. Today, the word's meaning has transformed but the echoes of its past remain. Who's word is i...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:33:06

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