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Carmen McRae was one of the most respected jazz singers in the business for four decades. This week, we’ll explore her early recordings for the Dec...
- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week, we pay tribute to singer and humanitarian Harry Belafonte. We’ll explore his expansive recording career, which encompassed folk, calypso...
- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week on Afterglow, we explore the songs of two unrelated black jazz composers from the early 20th century: Spencer Williams and Clarence Willi...
- Added: Jan 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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
The children of Baptist preachers, raised in gospel music — Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke are two of the most venerated names in soul. This week, w...
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Author Marlene Wisuri talks about the latest edition of "To Be Free"
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 06:45
On this episode, we’ll explore the life and career of “Mr. B” Billy Eckstine, a singer and bandleader who broke boundaries as a black icon in a seg...
- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 59:00
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
This week, Mark Chilla talks with jazz historian Will Friedwald about the early years of Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, as they explore some...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:00
The mission of the Black Heritage Library & Multicultural Center is to build community awareness, appreciation and understanding of the value of cu...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jul 05, 2022
- Length: 06:05
- Purchases: 1
Normally, The Rough Draft Diaries looks back on someone's success months or years after they've mastered their skill or goal. Today, we're chatting...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jun 07, 2022
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 1
Mercé Culp is a 4-dimensional artist. Her work includes street art, dance, fashion, graphic design, and video. Urban Digitz is the body of work she...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 06:09
- Purchases: 1
Since it began in 1988, TOLEDO EXCEL, a scholarship incentive program at The University of Toledo, has been striving to prepare underrepresented st...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 14, 2022
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Cydnee Moore creates artwork featuring striking lines in acrylic paint, bold colors, and stories steeped in African American heritage. She believes...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 06:12
- Purchases: 1
For 50 years the nationally syndicated radio show, In Black America has given voice to people of color in America, and John L. Hanson Jr. has hoste...
- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: 34:07
Monet joined World Footprints to answer questions about RV travel and share some lessons and the joys of multi-generational family travel. She also...
- Added: Nov 06, 2020
- Length: 28:31
Today on “The Live Feed” we take you back to Mid West Music Fest 2015 and the music of Toki Wright. Toki Wright’s music has been described as a ble...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 26:21
It's the rough and tumble 1920s Chicago’s speakeasies. You had to have a password to gain entrance through a side door.
Bought by WDCB, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
From winning an amateur contest at Piqua's May's Opera House in the 1920s to the rise of rock and roll in the early fifties and their number one hi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We trace hip hop’s roots, focusing on how it's expressed in different regions of our country, from California to New York, and even in Virginia. Pl...
Bought by WJCT, WABE, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
American-invented hip hop music is now an international phenomenon with rappers in countries like Japan and Senegal. We trace hip hop’s roots, focu...
- Added: Apr 18, 2014
- Length: 53:52
- Purchases: 4
A birthday tribute to the American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer, born April 12, 1940.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 59:52
- Purchases: 2
Cornetist Thomas Morris is somewhat of an obscure artist from the 1920s, although he was certainly very active recording with Clarence Williams, Si...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
The Selby Avenue Jazz Fest: a local institution with great local acts and a national one, community activities, and a location for teaching about A...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 08, 2013
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
Nationally renowned writers, singers, and poets pay tribute to Toni Morrison, whose works have earned her the highest accolades in literature and e...
Bought by WJCT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KWMR
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 5
