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Urban shamanism and setting sacred space. Dreams, like myths, can be regarded as stories that are not true but that say something true. The essence...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 54:13
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World renowned bass guitarist and composer Victor Wooten returns to Musician's Spotlight for a conversation with host John Floridis Hear some new ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 2
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Chicago based blues singer and guitarist Melody Angel joins host John Floridis to talk about her career, her blues pedigree (cousin of the iconic m...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 2
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Margaret and Matilda Roumania Peters were sisters and tennis champions in the 1930s, long before Serena and Venus Williams. While still in high sch...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
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A diverse artist, Kevin Moore (Keb' Mo') is a true star in the world of music.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:57
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One of the many types of Blues music is a regional style named "Bentonia Blues" as it was founded and based out of Bentonia, Mississippi.

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:36
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The First band to be recorded for the Alligator Records label.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 57:40
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An unsung guitar hero of the blues who made a BIG mark very few know about.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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A trip back in history to one of the best Chicago Blues bands in early postwar (WWII) times in the Windy City.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 53:50
Caption: Dr Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop
The Legacy of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and A Sermon to White America

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Kendall, Vibha, and Gareth with author Winifred Conkling
The largest attempted slave escape on U.S. soil happened in SouthWest Washington, DC. That's the tale in "Passenger on the Pearl." Young readers d...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 39:45
Caption: Dwayne Betts
Poetry is form of self-expression that’s become vital to the incarcerated. To mark National Poetry Month, we bring you a special production by the ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Rickie, who is the Music and Arts Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center In Culver City, California, sat down with us to talk about t...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Before Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycotts, a 16-year-old student led a student strike that went all the way to the Supreme Court and helped...

Bought by KVSC and KSFR


  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2