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USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor Leonard Brown

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Leonard Brown, USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor, aA native of Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover community, Leonard Brown (b.1934) reflects o...

Added: Jan 29, 2016
Length: 03:56

Homer Craig, Veteran and Retired Police Sergeant

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Veteran and retired police sergeant Homer Craig (b.1939) reflects on family and community life in Hazelwood based on interviews conducted by teens...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jan 29, 2016
Length: 04:47
Purchases: 1

Malik Bankston, Executive Director, The Kingsley Center

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Malik Bankston, Executive Director, The Kingsley Center (b. 1962), reflects on his college experience and his desire to better his community based ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jan 29, 2016
Length: 04:49
Purchases: 1

Rev. Donald P. Turner. Homestead pastor and retired paratrooper

From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition

Pastor and retired paratrooper Donald Turner (b. 1936) reflects on racial tension in his adolescent years and his faith in God based on interviews ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jan 29, 2016
Length: 06:14
Purchases: 1

Conversations with Julian Bond

From: With Good Reason

The late Julian Bond conducted 51 extensive interviews with prominent black leaders in America. Phyllis Leffler who led the project with Bond, has ...

Bought by WLPR , WNSB, KISA Digital Studios, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more

Added: Jan 21, 2016
Length: 53:58
Purchases: 9

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

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

StoryCorps Griot: Gwen Moten

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Gwen Moten remembers her childhood best friend, Denise McNair, who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WTJU

Added: Jun 26, 2015
Length: 01:41
Purchases: 2

Claudette Colvin - A Teenage "Rosa Parks"

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others? Consider Claudette Colvin. She was a 15-year-old girl in the segregated city of...

Bought by KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio

Added: Mar 05, 2015
Length: 09:19
Purchases: 5

John Coltrane (Ep. 10)

From: Jeff Haas

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

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

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

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

Full Moon Hacksaw # 1455 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/18/2014

From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw

Cookin' with grease: Add some Coltrane for the winter, and THANKS to musicians who donated their time and talents to a recent radio fundraiser. The...

Bought by WOUB and WVBI-LP

Added: Dec 16, 2014
Length: 01:59:56
Purchases: 2

Thwarting Democracy, the Battle for Voting Rights

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

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

Marquell, Sharon, and Jane

From: Littleglobe

Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross

N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

Added: Apr 09, 2014
Length: 10:00

Miss Anne in Harlem

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

White upper-class women seeking to become honorary blacks. Unheard of –right? That’s what began to happen during what became known as the Black Ren...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Oct 02, 2013
Length: 28:57
Purchases: 1

Clifford Brown

From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes

Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 23, 2013
Length: 02:35
Purchases: 2

Billie Holiday

From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes

Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUPR low power FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 10, 2013
Length: 03:04
Purchases: 4

Charles Mingus

From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes

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

America's Great Migration 1915-1970 Part Two

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

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

KUT's Views and Brews: Miles Davis and the Making of Kind of Blue

From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix

As part of KUT’s Views and Brews series we engaged in a spirited discussion about Miles, his music, his relationships with his musicians, and the g...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM