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Soul Fire Farm – Committed To Ending Racism In The Food System
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
Caption: Photo used courtesy of Leah Penniman
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.

Bought by KZYX and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Maria Stewart – Sandra Kamusukiri – A Visit With a Free Black Woman – Boston 1840
From: Barry Vogel
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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
Woodbine, Onaje Ph.D. — Black Gods of the Asphalt Part Two
From: Barry Vogel
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The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Build Your Brand & Position Your Business
From: Angel Livas
Series: The Woman Behind The Business
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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
Food Justice Is About Everything We Do
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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However you put it, food is as political as it gets. Today, we'll hear from farmers, organizers, workers, and seed-keepers who all attended the NES...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Schubert Quintet and Imani Winds #18-15
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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The Pacifica Quartet play the Quintet in C by Schubert and Imani Winds play a modern piece based on Duke Ellington

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
Interview w/ poet ELIZABETH ALEXANDER about her memior "The Light of the World"
From: Out of Bounds
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Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir "The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16) Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
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Guest editor of BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2017, Natasha Trethewey talks about her her first creative non-fiction book, BEYOND KATRINA: A MEDITATION ON T...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Memories of Boo
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we return to the story of Clinton “Boo” Gilkie, who died one year ago- on June 7, 2016- in the Monroe County Jail. We discussed the cir...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:38
Kansas City Jazz Poet Phyllis Becker
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue Black History Month with Phyllis Becker. Coordinator of the Riverfront Reading Series in Kansas City, her own publications include the ...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WVAS, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Onaje Woodbine: Black Gods of the Asphalt Parts One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Onaje Woodbine, author of “Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball,” a memoir that explores t...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 58:02
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1506 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/10/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Straight ahead sounds start right out of the gate, the great Sarah Vaughan makes a timely statement. Roland Kirk flute goes well in the dead of ju...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 4
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
The Art of JuCoby Johnson
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a new cast member of Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona MN. This individual recently graduated f...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 22:01
Dee Dee Bridgewater
From: South Carolina Public Radio
Series: Song Travels with Michael Feinstein News Friendly Version
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In honor of Billie Holiday's centennial, "Song Travels" features Grammy-winning vocalist and actress Dee Dee Bridgewater, who embodied the late sin...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KUOW, KISU, KMUW, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 16, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
Wild Blessings (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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This Poetry Month: We celebrate the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, wo...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVMR, KENW, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Racism in America:  One Man's Experience
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious continues its series on racism in a conversation with Bill Durham, a 59 year old black man from Ohio who now lives in Mendocino Count...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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
Nina Simone (Ep. 2)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Nina Simone, the "High Priestess of Soul"
In this hour, it's the life and music of Nina Simone—from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of jazz's fiercest voice...

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


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
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
Furious Flower Honors Rita Dove (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The most celebrated African American poets in America pay homage to the life’s work of former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove.

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, KVSC, KRDP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Louie's Lament
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
In the early years of recordings, Louis Armstrong became a trailblazing pioneer in the art of accompanying blues singers. I wasn’t as easy as it ma...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1