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A Confrontation with History (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Confrontation with History (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KVSC, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, KMUN, WRMU and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
A Confrontation with History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
A Confrontation with History (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
2021 National Book Award Winner Tiya Miles Turns Her Hand to Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tiya Miles, Credit: Stephanie Mitchell
2011 MacArthur Fellow, 2021 National Book Award winner, historian, and novelist Tiya Miles discusses how fiction and history meet in her novel.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Empathy Tours (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Empathy Tours (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

Bought by WUTC, KVSC, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Empathy Tours (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KXCV, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Empathy Tours (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Let's Hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jericho Brown, Credit: Brian Cornelius
Jericho Brown reads and discusses his work, his creative process, and Black queer poetry’s capacity to expand concepts of love

Bought by WMPG, WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
NL 23-25: On A Turquoise Cloud: Duke Ellington After The War, 1945-47, 6/12/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Ellington kept his orchestra together in a changing economic landscape, continuing to create memorable music and expanding his compositional horizons.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Visions of Style (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In the late 70s, the University of Virginia inherited 10,000 glass plate negatives from the Holsinger Studio.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHEN-LP, RadioStPete Florida, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Visions of Style (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In the late 70s, the University of Virginia inherited 10,000 glass plate negatives from the Holsinger Studio.

Bought by KUHF, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Visions of Style (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In the late 70s, the University of Virginia inherited 10,000 glass plate negatives from the Holsinger Studio.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, KVSC, WYAP, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Visions of Style (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In the late 70s, the University of Virginia inherited 10,000 glass plate negatives from the Holsinger Studio.

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KUHF, WTJU, KXCV, KEDT and more


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Outdoor Archives (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We often think of cemeteries as separate worlds unto themselves.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Royalton Community Radio, and KCHW


  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Outdoor Archives (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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We often think of cemeteries as separate worlds unto themselves.

Bought by WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, Harford Community Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Outdoor Archives (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We often think of cemeteries as separate worlds unto themselves.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, RadioStPete Florida, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT and more


  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Outdoor Archives (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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We often think of cemeteries as separate worlds unto themselves.

Bought by KXCV and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
MN Reads: "Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight" by Shannon Gibney
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Shannon Gibney talks about her new picture book "Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight"

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 08:04
Revisiting Ecopoet Camille T. Dungy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Camille T Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Ecopoet and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T Dungy discusses how history and race complicates nature writing

Bought by KECG, WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, WDCB and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
EE 23-26: “Our bodies aren’t the problem,” rethinking the stories we tell about weight and health , 4/14/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A conversation with dietician Jessica Wilson about what we get wrong when we focus on weight.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
EE 23-14: "Local man likes pizza", 3/31/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Producer Toby Foster gets in-the-weeds about home pizza making with Pete Giordano.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
Becoming Jazz Violinist Regina Carter
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Regina Carter, Credit: Bob Travis; (CC-BY-2.0)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: First of a two-part podcast with violinist and NEA Jazz Master Regina Carter

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
Meet Tsione Wolde-Michael--the new head of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tsione Wolde-Michael
The new executive director of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities(PCAH) Tsione Wolde-Michael talks about the work of committee...

Bought by WSLR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 5

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