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Musician's Spotlight - Brandee Younger - 815
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Grammy Award nominated harpist and composer Brandee Younger joins host John Floridis by phone from Harlem to discuss her most recent recording "Unr...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
  • Purchases: 2
Add Toni Stone to the Roster of Minnesota Baseball Legends
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Baseball player Toni Stone poses for a photo. , Credit: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
This fall marks the 30th anniversary of one of Minnesota’s most celebrated baseball moments: the Twins’ 1991 World Series championship. But this ye...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative: La'Shanda Holmes and Jeanine Menze
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lieutenant Commander La’Shanda Holmes talks to her mentor, Commander Jeanine Menze, about being the first two Black female pilots in the United Sta...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:25
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DuBOIS & The And I Thought Ladies
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, award-winning poet and now novelist, about The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, just out from Harper Collins. Th...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:38
180: Dr. Mae Carol Jemison
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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On September 12, 1992, Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first Black female astronaut. She's an engineer, a scientist, a physician, and an educator....

Bought by KMUN, WRFA-LP, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 3
What's New? (July 2021)
From: Simply Timeless Radio
Series: Simply Timeless (Subscribable)
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Every day, we get to hear the sounds of new jazz being released by talented artists from around the world, and this week, we share some of those di...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2021
  • Length: 01:50:40
S05 Ep46: Women of Color: Composers, Part 4, 7/17/2021
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week we hear an hour dedicated to music composed by Women of Color. These remarkable women have worked to overcome both gender and racial bia...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
What's New? (May 2021)
From: Simply Timeless Radio
Series: Simply Timeless (Subscribable)
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Join us for a journey of musical discovery as we uncover newly released jazz treasures from artists like Nnenna Freelon, John Pizzarelli, Dara Tuck...

  • Added: May 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:50:40
Black Pain White Media: Introducing URL Media, a new, BIPOC network
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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If Black Lives Matter, how are journalists and media organizations considering Black pain in their coverage? And how are journalists and editors ac...

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


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Inspirational Life and Travel Journeys from a Woman Marine
From: World Footprints LLC
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One of America’s first Black female Marines talks about boot camp below the Mason-Dixon line, military service, her inspirational life journey and ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 40:42
UpFront Soul #2021.10 - March 8-14 - Women's History Month
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Fannie Lou Hamer
We'll hear and celebrate the voices of women: Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, Joan Armatrading, and civil rights heroine Fanny Lou Hamer on this women'...

Bought by WKMS, KAAD-LP, WLPR , KZUM, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 11
Simply Mad About March
From: Simply Timeless Radio
Series: Simply Timeless (Subscribable)
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Every March, a number of college basketball teams square off in a tournament called March Madness. So, we thought we'd put up our own best players ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 01:50:40
The Hadley Park Line Dancers
From: David Condos
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Meet Joann Jones. She's 79 years old, and she loves to dance. So, she helped start a line dancing class for senior citizens at the Hadley Park Comm...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 15:57
  • Purchases: 1
Ericka Huggins: Spiritual Wellbeing & Social Change
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Left: Erica Huggins Right:
How does historical wellness play out in race and gender? Tune in to learn about historical wellness and its relation to a Black student’s and Bla...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Dr. Stephanie Evans: Africana Studies & Institutional Wellness
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Dr. Stephanie Evans
How does historical wellness play out in race and gender? Tune in to learn about historical wellness and its relation to a Black student’s and Bla...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:06
Irma Thomas: The Influences and the Business
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Irma Thomas, Credit: Rick Olivier
A return visit with singer Irma Thomas, who pays tribute to her musical influences - some surprising - and tells Gwen all about the bottom line of ...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Hadiyah-Nicole Green-Argieard and Tenika Floyd
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Hadiyah-Nicole Green-Argieard and Tenika Floyd at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta, Georgia on January 28, 2017., Credit: Jacqueline Van Meter for StoryCorps.
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green speaks with her cousin Tenika Floyd about being raised by her Auntie and Uncle, and how their separate battles with cancer...

Bought by WERA-LP


  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
Yolanda Franklin-Moore: I Have So Many Wishes Every Single Day
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Yolanda Franklin-Moore, Credit: Shefik
Wishes - Yolanda Franklin-Moore is Fashion Designer and Owner of Xande Fadee, an innovative fashion and accessories line. She is a highly skilled f...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:11
Peppermint: Owning Your Confidence
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Peppermint, Credit: Shefik
Identity - The hardest working woman in show business, drag queen and recording artist Peppermint has conquered the New York scene with her high-en...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:29
Melba Moore: Things Don't Always Happen When You Want Them To
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Melba Moore, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - American R&B singer and actress Melba Moore is a 4-time Grammy Award nominee and the winner of the 1970 Tony Award for Best Performa...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: :56
88-01: Why Rosie the Riveter is "Not My Icon” - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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For the past decade, now 98-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Rivete...

Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, WLRH, KWIT, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
86-01: "So You Want To Talk About Race" author Ijeoma Oluo
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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An awkward conversation with her white mother about “good white people” inspired Ijeoma Oluo to take on the unenviable task of writing one of the m...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, RadioStPete Florida, WCPN, KWMR, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Top of Mind - 2020 Fourth of July Special Episode
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: How America has changed since its founding. Topic 2: Black Women who fought for suffrage. Topic 3: Immigration laws and who gets to be an ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSTK, WNMU-FM, and KOWS


  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 54:57
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps Griot: Janis Porter and Olivia Hooker
From: StoryCorps
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Dr. Olivia Hooker, who lived to be 103, sat down with her goddaughter Janis Porter to discuss her groundbreaking life as the first African American...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:05
Shirley Chisholm, the first African American congresswoman who ran for President
From: WHYY
Series: Women100
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In 1968, Chisholm became the first black woman elected to Congress Four years later, she ran for President — the first African American to seek a...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WITF, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 4