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WoodSongs 1009: Dom Flemons and Burnett Sisters
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: “The American Songster” Dom Flemons on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Dom Flemons co-founder of the Grammy®-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops pl...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KMSU, KEDT, KCHW, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 72
The Success of Guaranteed Income: Cash Relief for Black Moms (August 30, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This year, Mother’s Day, May 14th coincides with the formal end of the National Covid-19 Emergency. Poor parents will be taking a hit — but Guarant...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR, WNYE and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Cash Relief for Black Moms: The Success of Guaranteed Income
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This Mother’s Day, May 14th coincides with the formal end of the National Covid-19 Emergency. Poor parents will be taking a hit — but Guaranteed In...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
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
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
Community Safety in a Time of Insurrection
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, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
ee 21-39: A Conversation With Ashanté Reese On “Racial Justice In The Wake Of Food Justice”, 9/24/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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What is possible when we listen to Black people’s food stories beyond an all encompassing narrative of lack?

  • Added: Sep 20, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
609: Living In Skin / 610: The Sound Of Silence, 8/7/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Living In Skin" - All over America, people have stopped touching faces and hugging friends. This hour, explore the inner life of your sk...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Mark My Words Sports Show (06-07-21)
From: KRDP
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NBA play-in tournament, Aaron Rodgers, and an interview with David Signminton CEO of Desert Domino League

  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 01:08:50
BIPOC Journalists On Covering COVID and Racism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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BIPOC journalists reflect on what it is to be veterans of two of the most devastating wars in recent history: the coronavirus pandemic and the cent...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
St. Louis: Gateway to Genocide
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today’s guest is Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. St. Louis turns out...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Dec 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
73: Bridget 'Biddy' Mason
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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At the age of 42, Bridget Mason won a court case in California that freed her and her daughters from slavery. She went on to become a California re...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:14
57: Stagecoach Mary
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Born in 1832, Mary Fields was the first African-American female Star Route mail carrier in the United States. Wearing two guns that she sometimes b...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
Jay MacLeod - "Ain't no makin' it" - the perils of achievement ideology
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with author and sociologist Jay MacLeod.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 8 - Chains
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Amandla, Imani, Angela, and Eunhea, readers from Robert Goddard Montessori School, Grace Christian School, Fairhaven School, and St. Anne's School – all in Maryland.
What role did African-Americans play in the Revolutionary War? "Chains" - the first in a trilogy by Laurie Hulse Anderson - takes us to Manhattan i...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 21:04
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1502 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/12/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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The Spirit prevails for guitarist Mark Whitfield and the inimitable John Coltrane. Vintage big band and small group sounds swing with Bill Holman a...

Bought by WYAP, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WOUB


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 5
Echoes of the Call
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Classroom in the Islamic School in Seattle, Washington, 1982., Credit: Library of Congress
Sylviane Diouf of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture talks with Ed Ayers about some of the overlooked legacies of enslaved Muslims ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 1
Thwarting Democracy, the Battle for Voting Rights
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bloody Sunday-Selma, Alabama
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...

Bought by KMUN and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Words vs. Bars: How Prison Poets Escape
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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
A March for Jobs and Freedom
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Historian William P. Jones talks with host Brian Balogh about the origins of the march idea, first floated during a campaign against employment dis...

Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:17
  • Purchases: 2
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The 1963 March on Washington
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the March on Washington, August 28th, 1963, Credit: National Archives
August 28th marks the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech in front of the Lincoln memorial in Washington, D.C., wh...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WUFT, WESM 91.3 FM, WCSU-FM, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
Jazz-O-Rama #32: Rahsaan Roland Kirk's Early LPs
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
Caption: Rahsaan Roland Kirk's Early LPs on Jazz-O-Rama, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
Skater's Waltz, Serenade to a Cuckoo, and Jive Elephant are among the tunes that will fill the air when the Rahsaan Roland Kirk's Early LPs is hear...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 2
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2013, Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses he...

Bought by KQED and WJCU


  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Code To Live By in Appalachia
From: Mary Helen Miller
Caption: The Presbyterian church in Vardy, Tennessee, was a community center for some Melungeon families. , Credit: Mary Helen Miller
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WTJU


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 16:56
  • Purchases: 2