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687.G: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/20/2024 6:00 AM

From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL

6 works, including COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Hiawatha Overture, Op. 30. RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin/Adrian Leaper.

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned.

Episode 4 - Mothering the Movement

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We hear Hazel become a mother of the newly coalesced global Environmental Justice movement and take EJ to the highest halls of power, while still c...

Episode 3 - From the Center of the Donut

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.

Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

Episode 1 - Help This Garden Grow

From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow

We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...

Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: B.C. Franklin (right), I.H. Spears (left) and Effie Thompson (center) filing insurance claims for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in a Red Cross tent. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin

In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN

SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: The Gay Black Civil Rights Financier

From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials

I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF

AG 23-27: The Debonair Johnny Hartman, 7/3/2023

From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow

This week, we’re celebrating the rich baritone voice of jazz singer Johnny Hartman, who would have turned 100 years old on July 3rd. We’ll explore ...

AG 23-26: Roberta Flack’s New American Songbook, 6/26/2023

From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow

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 ...

AG 23-08: Live Nina!, 2/20/2023

From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow

Nina Simone, the “High Priestess of Soul,” was an enigmatic and eccentric figure in the world of jazz. This week on Afterglow, we’ll feature Simone...

Remembering Emmett Till

From: World Footprints LLC

Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.

All Mixed Up:Tributes & Celebrations

From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up

Caption: Black Power, Credit: Bill Russell RIP

A late-summer tribute mix of music, history and celebration featuring some of those who have left us--while striving to move the world towards a be...

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...

StoryCorps Griot: Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Latasha Harlins as an early teen., Credit: Christina Rogers.

Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...

Bought by WYAP

Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus, and others.

Bought by WLRH, KRCU Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM and more

AG 22-08: Billie Holiday and The Big Bands, 2/14/2022

From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow

We usually think of Billie Holiday as a small-group singer, but she also worked with several big bands. This week on Afterglow, we’ll hear Holiday’...

StoryCorps Griot: Raynita Snipes Johnson and Gene Robinson

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: United States Army veteran Maceo Snipes. He served in World War II, and was murdered shortly after returning home from service., Credit: Courtest of Raynita Snipes Johnson.

Raynita Snipes Johnson remembers her great-uncle, US Army veteran Maceo Snipes, a Black man lynched for voting in 1946.

Bought by WYAP

The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton

From: Radio Diaries

On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

StoryCorps Griot: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Willie Edwards Jr. died in 1957. He was killed by Klansmen who told him to either jump off a bridge or be shot., Credit: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts

Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.

Bought by WYAP

MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette

On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU

Songs for the Struggle-Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement (episode 2)

From: Daniel Polletta

Longtime WCPN Cleveland/ideastream jazz programmer Dan Polletta has created "Songs for the Struggle- Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement." This is ...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, KBEM, Wyoming Public Radio, WCPN, WDCB and more

Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

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

The Uncomfortable Truth About Race in America

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

“The Uncomfortable Truth” is a film produced by Loki Mulholland. It is a journey to understand how being white has benefited his family across gene...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KMUN, KOWS, and RadioStPete Florida

The Untold Story of Promise Neighborhood on Juneteenth, the FULL Public Forum

From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota

In a this Juneteenth edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attended the June 19th obse...

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