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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
StoryCorps: PJ Allen and Willie Watson
From: StoryCorps
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When the truck bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, there were 21 children in the building's day care. Six sur...

Bought by KOSU and KOSU


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
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
Lady E: Two Times A Child, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Lady E, Credit: John MacLellan
Lady E lost just about everything that gave her life meaning and then she found something else inside her. Her voice.And now Lady E sings the blues...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 27:23
Claudette Colvin - A Teenage "Rosa Parks"
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
Caption: Claudette Colvin.
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
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
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1463 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/12/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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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...

Bought by WOUB, KVRZ, KPVL, and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 4
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
Show #16: Expressing Ourselves
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
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It?s our last podcast of the summer, and we?re going out with two pieces about self-expression. DaeDae Williams shares a powerful poem about the c...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:52
StoryCorps: Raphael Hameed, Heidi Hameed, and Megiddëh Goldston
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Raphael and Heidi Hameed (R) lost their son when he was struck by a speeding car. They spoke with Megiddëh Goldston (L), the driver's sister, about...

Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Herman Travis and Robert Cochran
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Herman Travis speaks with his neighbor Robert Cochran about delivering food to elderly and disabled residents of his housing complex.

Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU


  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 3
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1455 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/18/2014
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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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
StoryCorps: Franklin and Sherry Gilliard
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Franklin Gilliard and his wife, Sherry, reflect upon their time in a homeless shelter after...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 3
Full Moon Hacksaw #1449 11-06-14 (Hours 1 & 2)
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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November the party is on! Exclaims our vocalist of the hour(s) Luciana Souza. Cedar Walton also appears both as pianist and composer, aiding Art Bl...

Bought by WYAP and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 2
Coming Home
From: Whitney Henry-Lester
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Eleanor Warren talks about her song, "Coming Home."

Bought by WCSU-FM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
1970s Black Rock, or the Ties that Bind
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
Caption: a band called death
Recently at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, Ayana Contreras caught a documentary about Death, a 1970s all-black proto-punk band out of Detroit. The do...

Bought by WFHB and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 2
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1446 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/16/2014
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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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
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
My Identity by Alex Thibodeau
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Vocalo contributor Alex Thibodeau talks about growing up biracial outside of Detroit… without the benefit of knowing his Jamaican father. He shares...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 2
Ray Brown: Black and Radical in Vietnam
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 23:59

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