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Mega Ran
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Mega Ran is one of the most prolific hip hop artists you have heard, but likely have not heard of. His music is featured in hundreds of video games...

Bought by KTNA, RadioFreePalmer, KRSC, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KSTK and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
03042024: Mega Ran, 3/4/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Mega Ran is one of the most prolific hip hop artists you have heard, but likely have not heard of. His music is featured in hundreds of video games...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Open for Business
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today on The Rough Draft Diaries we talk to Dr. Shanda Gore, the principal of MBAC, Minority Business Assistance Center. A development division tha...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Khadijah Queen
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet Khadijah Queen discusses her new collection of poetry, "Anodyne."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WYAP and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
EE 20-49: Fast Food Franchises In The Black Community, Cookies With Kids, And Unrolling The Cabbage Roll, 12/4/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A new book by Marcia Chatelain complicates the relationship between McDonald’s and the Black community.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
EE 20-41: Have Sheep, Will Farm: One Couple’s Search For A Farm Of Their Own, 10/9/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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From walking a horse 6 miles on a rail trail, to transporting 24 sheep in the back of a Chrysler minivan, these young farmers will find a way to ge...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
December Festivals
From: New Letters on the Air
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We feature literature and commentary about the December holiday season from our rich archives. The late Rabbi Gerald Kane discusses the origins of ...

Bought by WDCB and WDCB


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
RDD: Ruby's Dream
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week we're meeting a local business owner. Ruby owns Ruby kitchen in Maumee, Ohio, join us to hear how Ruby turned her dream of owning her own...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 06:09
Celebrating Black History Month with Poet Gwendolyn Brooks
From: New Letters on the Air
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The late Gwendolyn Brooks shaped countless writers following her long poetic career. This episode looks back on her life as the first African-Amer...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WDCB, WNMU-FM, KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
I Will Not Fear: Melba Beals of the Little Rock Nine
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Melba Beals
Melba Beals, one of the nine African-American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, tells her story of faith under fire.

Bought by WHYY and WETS


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
WoodSongs 912: The Legendary Shack Shakers and Donald Ryan & Barron Ryan
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Master musicians Donald and Barron on the same piano!
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes country fried rock and roll with The Legendary Shack Shakers plus dynamic...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KKRN, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio), KDLG and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 12
Fallen Heroes of 2015
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Juan Evans
Thousands of local social justice organizers passed away this year. People doing crucial work in their communities, whose deaths didn t make the he...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Louis Armstrong (Ep. 4)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Satchmo in 1960.
In this hour, it's a look at the life and music of Louis Armstrong with the good people of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Louis' form...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KMUN, WGBH Radio Boston, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
A Conversation with NEA Jazz Master, Lou Donaldson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Sweet Poppa Lou talks about the musical roots of his swinging bop saxophone sound. [38:23]

Bought by KMUW and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 38:23
  • Purchases: 2
Union Graze, Baltimore's Newest Farmer's Market
From: Mark Gunnery
Series: Sound Bites on Delmarva
Caption: Denzel Mitchell of Five Seeds Farm and Apiary
Sound Bites on Delmarva producer Mark Gunnery visits Baltimore's newest farmer's market, Union Graze, and catches up with a farmer, a farm intern, ...

Bought by WCSU-FM and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 09:05
  • Purchases: 2
Husband and Wife Poets Terrance Hayes & Yona Harvey
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Terrance Hayes and Yona Harvey
African-American poet and National Book Award-winning author of LIGHTHEAD, Terrance Hayes and his wife, Yona Harvey, author of the 2013 release, HE...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #129 - Halloween Rhythm & Blues
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Matt The Cat celebrates Halloween with the scariest, spookiest and most sinister vintage rhythm & blues records ever made! It's the disembodied "s...

Bought by KCSM, KPIP-LP, WNMU-FM, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
A Conversation with Andre Watts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Pianist and 2011 National medal of Arts Recipient, André Watts remembers the early years of his career. [39:41]

Bought by 'The Sea' and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 29, 2012
  • Length: 39:41
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with NEA Heritage Fellow, Mary Jackson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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NEA National Heritage fellow Mary Jackson talks about the art and tradition of sweetgrass basketmaking.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 22:53
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Martina Arroyo
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2010 NEA Opera Honoree and legendary soprano Martina Arroyo talks about her career in opera, including working with such luminaries as Leonard Bern...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 27:18
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with The Birmingham Sunlights
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2009 NEA National Heritage Fellows, The Birmingham Sunlights, discuss the creation of their group and their unique "Birmingham sound."

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 25:40
Jazz Time Vol. 1 - The Best in Mainstream Jazz
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: This Is Jazz Time!
This is Jazz Time! It is a one hour mainstream Jazz musical variety show, featuring recordings from the great Jazz masters. We go from from Bebop t...

Bought by WTIP, Spokane Public Radio, WPTC, and KSJD


  • Added: Sep 28, 2009
  • Length: 54:24
  • Purchases: 4
WWOZ Street Talk- Yoga In The Lower Ninth Ward
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Michelle Baker wanted to bring yoga to the ninth ward but she wasnt sure how.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2008
  • Length: 05:48
Sly Crooner Episode #14 Do You Got The Funk?
From: Geoffrey Tozer
Series: Sly Crooner
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The swank mailbag is overflowing with controversial questions.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2008
  • Length: 28:30