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WoodSongs 1072: Sugar Harp and Gail Ceasar
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Sugar Harp on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Alabama bluesman Sugar Harp plus Piedmont blues artist Gail Ceasar.

Bought by KDLG, KTRL, KMXT, KBRW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 39
Episode 165: Going Deep with Linda Villarosa on Being Seen , 11/5/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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seeing past our oldest biases

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
Special Report- Jubilee Justice Regenerative Farming: Tackling Racism & Rice
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
AG 23-27: The Debonair Johnny Hartman, 7/3/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we’re celebrating the rich baritone voice of jazz singer Johnny Hartman, who would have turned 100 years old on July 3rd. We’ll explore ...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Black Maternal Mortality: How Do We Save Black Lives?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world — and it is Black mothers who are dying at the hig...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
AG 23-26: Roberta Flack’s New American Songbook, 6/26/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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In the 1970s, singer Roberta Flack made a name for herself performing covers of songs by folk singers and other little-known artists, creating, in ...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
AG 23-08: Live Nina!, 2/20/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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Nina Simone, the “High Priestess of Soul,” was an enigmatic and eccentric figure in the world of jazz. This week on Afterglow, we’ll feature Simone...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
13-18: Bending Toward Justice: The Arc of Black Lives Matter , 2/8/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Patrisse Cullors
There are periods when history comes to a boil – when powerful forces of both destruction and creation result in massive social change. In 2020, th...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
2023-01-20 Activism, Art and Environmental Justice
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
20231020: Activism, Art and Environmental Justice, 1/20/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
AG 23-05: The Underrated Lorez Alexandria and Ethel Ennis, 1/30/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
Caption: Lorez Alexandria
This week, I’ll introduce you to the music of two underrated female singers, revered among jazz aficionados: Lorez Alexandria and Ethel Ennis.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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
WoodSongs 1049: DaShawn Hickman & Adam Weinberg
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: DaShawn and Wendy Hickman make their debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes North Carolina Sacred Steel player DaShawn Hickman plus singer and finger...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 42
AG 22-28: Eckstine’s Proteges: Arthur Prysock and Johnny Hartman, 7/4/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
Caption: Johnny Hartman's 1964 Impulse Album Cover
Few singers had as much of an influence on the next generation as the suave, full-throated “Mr. E” Billy Eckstine. This week, we’ll explore the wor...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Poet and NAACP Image Award Winner Patricia Smith: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, we'll hear from Patricia Smith, the author of eight poetry books and the 2021 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for li...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Jackie Robinson
Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus, and others.

Bought by WLRH, KRCU Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
AG 22-08: Billie Holiday and The Big Bands, 2/14/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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We usually think of Billie Holiday as a small-group singer, but she also worked with several big bands. This week on Afterglow, we’ll hear Holiday’...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Extremist Ties of Survivalist Groups at Paramilitary Training Camps In Rural America (Holiday ReAir - Week of 12/29/21)
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 KDNK, WNYE, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 928: John Gorka and War & Treaty
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The power of War & Treaty on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes world-renowned singer-songwriter plus electric husband & wife roots duo W...

Bought by Radio Bristol, WEJP-LP 107.1, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 24
WoodSongs 965: Amythyst Kiah and Joe Robinson
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Amythyst Kiah on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Southern Gothic folksinger Amythyst Kiah plus Australian virtuoso guitari...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WEJP-LP 107.1, Radio Bristol, WETS, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 34
The Fallen of 2020
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
The Pandemic, Loss and Racial Inequity
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jorge Garza has created an Azteca pop series based on front line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic., Credit: Jorge Garza
Up next on Making Contact we turn our attention to those Americans who are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus fallout. According to the CDC, Blac...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Okwui Okpokwasili: Visibility for the Invisible, Centering Black Women's Experiences in Performance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can dance and song offer insight into a person’s experience, and provoke curiosity, even empathy across national identity, race and gender? In this...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3