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Season 1, Episode 33 - 'Hunt The Good Stuff' feat Duncan Kirkwood
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Resilience is a choice.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 57:37
  • Purchases: 1
Reproductive Justice: The Ongoing Struggle for Bodily Autonomy (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Season 1, Episode 21 - 'Beyond Bars' feat Fox & Rob Richardson
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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The need for prison reform in the USA.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:25
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 16 - 'Safe Spaces' feat Jeanette Berry
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Can we make the music business safe for everyone?

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 57:52
  • Purchases: 2
Season 1, Episode 10 - 'Power of Voice' feat Dominique Daye Hunter
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Dominique Daye Hunter explores her art's inspiration and its role in challenging the undervaluing of art.

Bought by WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:05
  • Purchases: 3
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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A documentary about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre not only explains the full story of the shameful attack on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa tha...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:23
EP223 Lightnin' Slim
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Otis Hicks was a somewhat unsung Louisiana blues man who was an inspiration to another Louisianan who would one day become world famous!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:08
  • Purchases: 2
EP220 Joe "Guitar" Hughes
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A great Blues musician who deserves recognition for his contribution to the genre.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:44
  • Purchases: 1
EP214 Muddy Waters "Folk Singer"
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Muddy Waters went back to his bare roots on this 1964 album "Folk Singer".

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 57:14
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Emmett Till
From: World Footprints LLC
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Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 21:04
Soledad O’Brien on Rosa Parks: The Untold Story
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
EP208 Kat Riggins
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Kat Riggins 2022 release "Progeny is a collection of diverse tracks with blues roots as a foundation.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 1
EP207 Kenny Neal
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Kenny Neal's 2022 Album "Straight From The Heart"

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:16
  • Purchases: 1
EP206 Jessie Mae Hemphill
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
EP205 A.C. Reed
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:21
  • Purchases: 1
EP204 John Primer Hard Times
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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"Hard Times" is the title of this 2022 album by veteran Bluesman John Primer and is aptly named for our current time.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 1
For-Profit Business of Training Guns-for-hire is Literally Booming In Rural America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Detroit Hives: Honey Bee Farms as Urban Revitalization - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Urban beekeeping is forging new paths in Detroit. Nicole Lindsey and Timothy Paule Jackson of Detroit Hives are generating a lot of buzz working to...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and WFHB


  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
EP196 Salute to Chicago Blues Masters
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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In the year 2000 Telarc Blues label released a 3-album salute to three Chicago Blues Masters.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Apr 30, 2022
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 1
EP191 Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A well established blues duo from Canada

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million: Taking Mental Health Crises Out of Police Hands
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Asantewaa Boykin, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, program director for MH First Sacramento, and an ER nurse, poses for a photo at her home in Sacramento., Credit: Photo by Sara Nevis.
Police encounters during a mental health crisis have a greater chance of turning deadly if you're Black. New response mechanisms bypass law enforce...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #145 - Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Hour 2 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Mavis Staples
Hour 2 of a music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 194...

Bought by KFSK, KNCT FM, Capital Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #144 - Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Hour 1 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Mavis Staples
A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...

Bought by KFSK, KUHF, WRVO Public Media, and KSJE


  • Added: Jan 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
EP186 Jimi Hendrix Blues
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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This compilation album from 1994 showcases the Blues of Jimi Hendrix.

Bought by WLPR and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 2