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The Ballad of the Brown King
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Dr. Louise Toppin, a preeminent performer and scholar specializing in the concert repertoire of African American composers, presents the world prem...

Bought by KTEP, WUFT, WCQS, WWNO, WRKF and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 82
Modern Notebook Special: Juneteenth 2023
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook Specials
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A two-hour special celebrating contemporary music by living Black composers in America.

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WVIA


  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 3
1963: A Man's Dream, A Nation's Nightmare
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Andrew Hill's Black Fire LP
An hour-long jazz special: It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing uneas...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WWNO, WRGY, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 24
Ma Rainey-a Celebration of the Blues and African American Performance
From: Don McIver
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Using "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" film now out on Netflix, we look at how she influenced the blues with selections from her, Sterling Brown, Bessie...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 56:40
NL 17-41: From Man To Myth: Thelonious Monk, Part 1, 10/2/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A look at the pianist and composer's early life and career, including an interview with Monk biographer Robin D.G. Kelley.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Black History Special! "Hughes' Blues: The Langston Hughes Songbook"
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program featuring performances of songs with lyrics by author Langston Hughes, including recordings by Nina Simone, June Christy, Jame...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KVNF, WCPN, WMOT, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
Ratatat Man – The little drummer boy comes of age.
From: WNIN
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Fill out your holiday schedule with this contemporary radio drama.

Bought by WUKY, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WUKY, MPR News Stations, WUKY and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 54:42
  • Purchases: 9
Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)
From: Nancy Solomon
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This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...

Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 40
Sarah Vaughan: The Land Of Hi- Fi
From: Theresa Orlando
Series: She Grooves Radio Hour
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Theresa Orlando plays the album and highlights the liner notes of this jazz gem recorded on October 26 and 27 1955, in New York City.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2008
  • Length: 20:49
Crash, Race and Taiwan
From: Phillip Martin
Series: The Color Initiative
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Learning about race relations in the U.S. from the Oscar-Award winning CRASH.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
Setting Katrina to Music - Spike Lee, Terence Blanchard and New Orleans
From: Reese Erlich
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Spend some time with Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard to hear how they score Spike's latest film about Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
In Search of James Brown: An Appreciation (58:00 / 53:00 / 29:00 or 6:30 Feature)
From: Paul Ingles
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In 1999, radio producers Paul Ingles and Joe Warnes went in pursuit of an interview with the Godfather of Soul, James Brown at a tour stop in Albuq...

Bought by KRVS, KGLP, WCBE, Radio New Zealand, WYSO and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2006
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 30