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Dr. Robert Bullard, widely considered the father of environmental justice, talks about the inequality of pollution and climate change.
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 29:53
A look at Aretha's early years that paved the way to her becoming a legend
- Added: Jun 11, 2022
- Length: 59:26
Super Chikin' and Terry "Harmonica" Bean from Mississippi
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 58:58
From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 22:24
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Ayim Darkeh speaks with his mother, Shirley, about his experiences being one of the few Black students at his predominantly white elementary sc...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 1
On this week's WBB Talk we're excited to have a lady who manages benefits for one of the largest law firms in the country.
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
Soul Fire Farm is a working farm in upstate New York committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system, co-founded by Leah Penniman.
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Maria W. Stewart, as characterized by professor and scholar Sandra Kamusakiri, was a free black woman who lived in Boston, MA, from the 1820s to th...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Simple pleasures are the best. Enjoy an amazing hour of the best R&B, Soul and Slow Jams
- Added: Mar 01, 2019
- Length: 58:02
This week on The Woman Behind The Business - we’re sharing practical skills and tools to help business owners with their branding and marketing nee...
- Added: Dec 28, 2018
- Length: 01:00:20
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...
- Added: Jun 11, 2018
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
In April of 2014, federal agents raided the studios of 106.1 TOUCH FM in Boston, Massachusetts. The reason was simple: the radio station was operat...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Feb 08, 2017
- Length: 41:13
- Purchases: 1
A doula is a woman who helps another woman through the process of childbirth. Traver Riggins says when she learned about how a doula could help, sh...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
When someone is imprisoned, it doesn’t just affect the incarcerated. It affects the people left behind. Young people. Nearly three million children...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 07:33
Contemporary and bluesy attitudes stand up well to good old funky Crusaders music. Dave Brubeck hosts Michael Brecker as Bill Evans to Stan Getz. F...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 01:59:59
- Purchases: 4
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 from alternate spaces provide opportunities for technical prowess, yet melodic & lyrical in touch. Never losing the idea of blues as a feelin...
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Indiana was a hotbed for KKK activity in the 1920's, but during that time Richmond was the home of a record label that helped pioneer the recording...
Bought by Radio New Zealand and PRX Remix
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 20:09
- Purchases: 2
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
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
ART BLAKEY known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina was a Jazz drummer and a pioneer of Be-bop and modern Jazz. This one hour program is an introduction...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KSRQ
- Added: Aug 23, 2012
- Length: 52:24
- Purchases: 3
TWO HANDS, A GUITAR & GENIUS = WES MONTGOMERY is a one hour program that looks at the musical life of Jazz guitarist WES MONTGOMERY. The ten record...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KSRQ
- Added: May 02, 2012
- Length: 52:35
- Purchases: 3
This is as good as it gets! Bringing in the new year with a PHOTO-OP after a mega performance by soul music royalty Mr Stevie Wonder! Hear back sta...
- Added: Apr 22, 2012
- Length: 58:31
