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AG 23-26: Roberta Flack’s New American Songbook, 6/26/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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In the 1970s, singer Roberta Flack made a name for herself performing covers of songs by folk singers and other little-known artists, creating, in ...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
10-11: From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like?, 2/22/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dedan Gills and Belvie Rooks
What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descenda...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Soledad O’Brien on Rosa Parks: The Untold Story
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
AG 22-28: Eckstine’s Proteges: Arthur Prysock and Johnny Hartman, 7/4/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
Caption: Johnny Hartman's 1964 Impulse Album Cover
Few singers had as much of an influence on the next generation as the suave, full-throated “Mr. E” Billy Eckstine. This week, we’ll explore the wor...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
EP156 From Hill Country to Mississippi Delta Blues
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Super Chikin' and Terry "Harmonica" Bean from Mississippi

  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
March on Washington 2020, Animal Captivity Photography, Throat Singing
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Voices from the March on Washington 2020; Topic 2 - Photographer’s Intimate Portraits of 10,000 Species and Counting; Topic 3 - The Scien...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 51:22
The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit: The Bells
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Norman and Ora Bell have been a household name within the Toledo community for more than half a century. Known for working in local county governme...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 06:09
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Journalist Eric Arnold talks with Stanley Nelson, director of the documentary film: The Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution.

Bought by KMUN, KALW, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WRKF, WFHB and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 23
John Coltrane (Ep. 10)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Sax titan John Coltrane
In this hour, it's the life and legend of John Coltrane—from his rural North Carolina roots to his place as one of jazz's most spiritual men and mu...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, KZYX, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 34
Billie Holiday (Ep. 8)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Jazz songbird Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KMUW, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
Jazz and Film (Ep. 25)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman in the 1961 movie, "Paris Blues"
In this hour of The New Jazz Archive, we explore the shared history of jazz and film—from the role race played in shaping jazz's place at the movie...

Bought by WCPN, KHNS, KMUN, WVPE, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
Blues Unlimited #274 - A Conversation With The Blues (Language Advisory)
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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Join us for a special program featuring two legendary albums. The first, a "Conversation With The Blues," was recorded by Paul Oliver during the su...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and WJSU


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
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
Miss Anne in Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Carla Kaplan
White upper-class women seeking to become honorary blacks. Unheard of –right? That’s what began to happen during what became known as the Black Ren...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Charles Mingus
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus is considered one of the most creative and original voices in American jazz. Uniquely sensitive to the plight of the dispossessed, h...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 2
America's Great Migration 1915-1970 Part Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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We continue our conversation with Pulitzer winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migratio...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Sean Hill: Blood Ties and Brown Liquor
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Sean Hill
Award winning Minnesota Poet Sean Hill joins Heidi Holtan to talk about his book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Robert Battle.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Robert Battle discusses his first season as artistic head of the Alvin Ailey company. [33:04]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 33:04
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 002 with Grif Stockley
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Ms. Joanne Bland Presents: Growing Up in the Segregated South: Selma Voting Rights Movement
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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In 1965 the Southern Christian leadership Conference (SCLC) joined a Joanne Bland is the co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Insti...

Bought by KWMR and WJAB


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 31:50
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz and Civil Rights
From: With Good Reason
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Musicians' impact on the Movement.

Bought by WVAS, WVAS, WABE, WVAS, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Count Basie
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
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A quick musical look at the career of the Count

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WEKU, 90.5 WSNC, and KGOU


  • Added: Oct 06, 2005
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 4