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Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has made it to the “big Leagues” of the music industry with his talents. He just released his first major label album o...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 57:51
Jontavious Willis is a young musician in his 20s who is a multi-instrumentalist on a mission to keep the blues alive by following in his mentors (T...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:22
The innovator of the postwar (WWII) Chicago Blue sound!
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:58
Only the "true" Blues aficionados have probably heard of this slide guitar player from the 1930s. May I introduce to you, Casey Bill Weldon.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 01:00:29
Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the inf...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
This week starts our series of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper, the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training prisoners in the Lo...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Across the country, thousands of prisoners are facing consequences for their participation in the national prison strike. Some are being denied co...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:31
This week's program looks at the black American musicians who fled the racial tensions of the United States for Europe.
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 01:56:00
World Footprints will uncover the stories behind the story of the Green Book and we’ll explore Rochester, New York’s rich African-American heritage .
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 37:09
This week, we share a conversation we had with Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and activist whose work focuses on police violence against the queer com...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:35
This week, we return to the history of black radicalism within the prison system. You can hear more from Dr. Micol Seigel and Dr. Garrett Felber ab...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:23
This week, we are changing our format slightly. After hearing a letter from a prisoner involved in Operation PUSH, we are broadcasting an intervie...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:22
Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jan 31, 2020
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...
Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Westcoast blues guitar veteran, James Armstrong talks about his studio effort 'Blues Been Good to Me.'
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Raven Radio, KPSQ-LP, WEAA, Public Radio East and more
- Added: Apr 19, 2019
- Length: 58:10
- Purchases: 9
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In appreciation of rock 'n' roll pioneer Bo Diddley, Paul Ingles hosts an hour of music from Bo's songbook as well as music from some of the many r...
Bought by KSJE, WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, KUHF, KGLT and more
- Added: Oct 25, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
He is best known as the downhome singer of the Cash Box Kings. The group’s latest album, Holding Court (Blind Pig Records) – has struck a favorable...
Bought by WLPR , KDLG, WLPR , Public Radio East, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 03, 2018
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 9
"[Charles Burnett's] filmmaking is so quiet. It’s a deeply reflective cinema; it’s cinema that focuses on characterization, that really gives chara...
- Added: Mar 14, 2018
- Length: 59:02
In the last three years, Fantastic Negrito, an Oakland-based black roots revivalist has gone from busking at bus stops to winning a Grammy and tour...
- Added: Nov 19, 2017
- Length: 29:00
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with another edition of TriPod Xtras. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Dartmouth history professor Rashauna Johnso...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 20:17
In this edition of TriPod Xtras, Laine Kaplan-Levenson speaks with Rafat Ali, founder and CEO of Skift, a media company that looks at travel trends...
Bought by KISA Digital Studios
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 10:19
- Purchases: 1
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 12:20
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a retrospective look at Mardi Gras, and the year that carnival took place in the dark. Hear the TriPod Xtra...
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 12:02
