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The FRFF is a festival held around Winona that features a variety of documentary films. Though these films vary in message, topic, and substance th...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 27:07
From paintings to prints, from wood work to writing, there is no limit to what you can find at the Winona Art Walk. Hosted across the city of Winon...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 24:50
We revisit my 2016 episode about Octavia Butler in honor of the 75th anniversary of her birth. And we hear a new reading from one of Butler’s class...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Dec 21, 2022
- Length: 35:18
- Purchases: 1
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” His a...
Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KALW, and WORT
- Added: Oct 04, 2022
- Length: 29:10
- Purchases: 4
On this episode of the Apple Seed you'll hear the great storyteller and songwriter Micheal Reno Ferral tell the story of his family cleaning out ma...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, KICI Iowa City and more
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 6
A lonely, guarded black man falls into a relationship with a Latina who is desperate to leave the home in which she is made to feel inferior. Regin...
- Added: Jun 25, 2021
- Length: 08:45
From time to time, we all feel as though we're "on the outside." In this episode of The Apple Seed, we share some tales about "outsiders." This col...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 54:57
- Purchases: 4
WITNESS IN THE DARK, features two plays by Dominique Morisseau, a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and Tony Award nominee for Ain't Too Proud: The ...
Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)
- Added: Dec 24, 2020
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 3
Bob Kustra interviews Esi Edugyan about her novel "Washington Black"
- Added: Sep 16, 2019
- Length: 30:16
The Elevator is an infectious love story with a twist. Working for the same company, Chase and Hilda are star-crossed lovers trapped in a broken el...
- Added: Aug 05, 2019
- Length: 39:39
First Lieutenant Vernon Baker received the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II, April 1945, near Viareggio, in Tuscany, Italy and Ca...
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 34:20
The 1840s South. In the thick plantation air, two enslaved sisters spin a poetry of escape. Today’s the day: Field Girl is making her run for freed...
- Added: Jan 29, 2018
- Length: 20:56
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. In the short play, A Man of His Time, a descendant of Supreme Co...
- Added: Jan 29, 2018
- Length: 32:06
- Purchases: 2
Starring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Condola Rashad (“Billions”), CELL tells the riveting story of three African-American women working at ...
Bought by WCPN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WHRV
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 5
A thirty minute tribute to one of the founders of rock & roll- Antoine "Fats" Domino, featuring some of his classic recordings, interviews and actu...
- Added: Oct 27, 2017
- Length: 28:52
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. It features two short plays about American Black History. In th...
Bought by KSKQ, KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Feb 28, 2017
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 7
In the fact of the fear, confusing and despair many Americans feel after the election, one group of individuals joined together to share stories of...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 52:51
- Purchases: 1
In a future world, we have lost the technology for video/film/picture or recorded image. It is against their religion to draw or be involved with ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 09:32
This is part 2 of Episode 1 of the radio drama, "Columbus Myth." "Columbus Myth" is a speculative piece written from an African American perspecti...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 10:14
A perfect choice for Breast Cancer Awareness month is Waking Up by Cori Thomas. It juxtaposes the experiences of an American urbanite's and an Afri...
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 18:02
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 04:15
Short Description: We honor the life of the playwright and American Book Award-winning fiction writer J. California Cooper, who passed away Septemb...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
African-American author LaShonda Katrice Barnett, interviewed recently on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (2/8/15), reads here from her heralded new n...
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
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
Tonight’s show, Shadows are Black: Slavery’s Long Setting, features a discussion on the text and context of Herman Melville’s 1855 novella “Benito ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 57:12
