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Google vs Jesus?
From: Bryan Cox
Series: Hey Get Off My Lawn
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Winner of "Last Comic Standing", Alonzo Bodden talks.. Sex... Politics ... Religion .. and more in a funny 5. Listen and LAUGH!

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
Gamun-Pyul
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Flushing 2010
Caption: Rayon Wright with K-Pop Artist JYP
18 year old Caribbean American, Rayon Wright, sets out to be a K-Pop producer.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 3
Steve Edwards Soul Show Spring Pledge Drive With Special Guest Lynn Briggs!
From: Steve Edwards
Caption: Steve Edwards/Host Producer, Credit: Steve Edwards
Its that time of the year again when Public radio takes a leap of faith to its core listeners and beyond to generate pledges and donations in order...

  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:57:19
Steve Edwards Presents Series: An Hour With Al Jarreau Live In Studio!
From: Steve Edwards
Series: Steve Edwards Presents Series
Caption: Steve And Al jarreau, Credit: Kim Lindsey
Steve Edwards Presents Series is a one hour special featuring celebrity artists sharing words and music live in studio. Its gripping radio at its b...

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 59:23
Bob Marley - Marley
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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The official radio companion to the MARLEY documentary film in theatres and homes on April 20, 2012.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KPSQ-LP, Prairie Public, WNMU-FM, KMUW and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Steve Edwards Soul Talking With Art Stewart
From: Steve Edwards
Series: Steve Edwards Soul Talking with Art Stewart
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Art Stewart Motown producer and engineer. Art worked with the crème of the Motown artists and producers.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 32:13
Off The Lawn, Mr. Bigot!
From: Bryan Cox
Series: Hey Get Off My Lawn
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Comedian Darryl Littleton...wrote the book on "Black Comedians on Black Comedy". If you're a Bigot, you won't like the next 5 minutes.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
Stereotyping and Name Profiling
From: Bryan Cox
Series: Hey Get Off My Lawn
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You've seen him on "The Tonight Show", now comic Saleem joins us on the Lawn

  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:15
Is There Such a Thing as "Good" Hair?
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: KFAI Youth News
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The Youth News Initiative creates a platform for young women of color to give their unique perspective on issues they face in their communities.

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
Aaron Kelly's Bones
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: Wednesday's African Child: Goth Tales of My Black People
Caption: Imakhu, from her show, "Wednesday's African Child"
Storyteller Imakhu's popular African American version of this classic comical folktale about a hateful man who will not die. From Imakhu's one-woma...

Bought by KUT and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2010
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 2
Black word nerds
From: Will Wright
Caption: Chris Rock, Credit: Seattle Times
How do Black people think Anglos (white people) think they talk?

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KUER, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 08, 2009
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 3
The Election -- Now That's Entertainment
From: Youth Outlook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This week on YO!Radio -- Powell endorses Obama, Japanese teens don't want voting rights and brit burglar sends victim flowers.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2008
  • Length: 06:10
Lionel Loueke
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
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guitarist Lionel Loueke performs with Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 1
Legal Emancipation
From: Radio Rookies
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At 15 emancipation has brought both freedom and hardship for Radio Rookie Jordan Teklay. Now 17, he's trying to understand what it means to be an a...

Bought by The Story, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Perfect Gift for the Five-Foot Basketball Player
From: Curie Youth Radio
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What one young man wants more than anything: height

  • Added: Apr 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:33
The Man Inside My Head by Elisha Miles
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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Her first year in the competition, Elisha says this piece is about being friends with your imaginary friend once again. Elisha Miles is 14 years o...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:54
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
Me and George W (No good deed goes unpunished)
From: Richard Frohlich
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Storyteller De Cee Cornish tells a tale of two boys from very different worlds who met one day in Houston, TX

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2007
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
More than Pimps and Pushers: A Lotta Love, Too
From: Curie Youth Radio
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Come to the game and see a Chicago neighborhood from a new point of view.

Bought by Vocalo.org, KZYX, WBEZ, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 03, 2007
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
To the Death with My Dad
From: Curie Youth Radio
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Kirsten and her father don't really talk to each other, but they still connect: through video games.

Bought by XRAY.fm and WFUV


  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Christian McBride
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Jazz bassist Christian McBride believes being cool leads to a longer, happier and more productive life.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KJZZ, and WEKU


  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 4
Basketball
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
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A 15 year-old, five-foot tall girl explores why basketball is important to her.

Bought by WMNF, 90.5 WSNC, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 20, 2006
  • Length: 07:50
  • Purchases: 3
Maya Angelou & Guy Johnson - Mother and Son Poets become themselves
From: Sedge Thomson
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Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.

Bought by KFCF FM, 90.5 WSNC, KWMR, WJSU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2006
  • Length: 44:47
  • Purchases: 19
Water Woman
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: Black History Month
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Popular storyteller Imakhu Mwt Shekemet's contemporary version of Afro-Brazillian folktale, "Mae de Agua."

Bought by WSLR, WABE, KUT, KUT, WJAB and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2005
  • Length: 25:58
  • Purchases: 10
Obesity
From: WAMU
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Jennifer has curves to die for...but she doesn't want to die for 'em! Find out why her friends don't necessarily feel the same.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WBEZ, and KCUR


  • Added: Aug 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 5