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FuseBox Radio Broadcast for the Weeks of July 24, 2013 [Flashback Episode]

From: FuseBox Radio Broadcast

Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent and fun 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah!

Added: Aug 15, 2013
Length: 03:06:20

FuseBox Radio Broadcast for the Weeks of July 10 & 17, 2013

From: FuseBox Radio Broadcast

Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent and fun 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah!

Added: Aug 14, 2013
Length: 03:06:33

FuseBox Radio Broadcast for Week of July 3, 2013

From: FuseBox Radio Broadcast

Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent and fun 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah!

Bought by KZYX

Added: Aug 14, 2013
Length: 03:23:39
Purchases: 1

Milt Hinton

From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes

In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe discusses the significance of Hinton’s life, his work and his perspective, and offers a view of what his l...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jul 08, 2013
Length: 02:57
Purchases: 1

Welcome to the Big Leagues

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Host Brian Balogh unpacks the saga of the Contract Buyers League, a local activist group in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood that organized in the 1...

Bought by PRX Remix and KREV-LP

Added: Jun 10, 2013
Length: 13:27
Purchases: 2

26: Gennett Records

From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds

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

Christi & Christopher: A Mother and Son Story

From: University of Montana Journalism

Christi was a pregnant teenager who gave up her baby for adoption and then changed her mind. The story from there goes places no one saw coming. Pr...

Added: Apr 29, 2013
Length: 07:28

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

Husband and Wife Poets Terrance Hayes & Yona Harvey

From: New Letters on the Air

African-American poet and National Book Award-winning author of LIGHTHEAD, Terrance Hayes and his wife, Yona Harvey, author of the 2013 release, HE...

Bought by WJCU

Added: Apr 19, 2013
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

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

U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2013, Natasha Trethewey

From: New Letters on the Air

Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses he...

Bought by KQED and WJCU

Added: Apr 03, 2013
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

JazzStories: Christian McBride

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM

Added: Mar 27, 2013
Length: 16:39
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

Southern Fiction Writer Stephanie Powell Watts

From: New Letters on the Air

2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...

Bought by WJCU

Added: Feb 28, 2013
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Tannah and Coley Morrris

From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.

Caption: Detail of Portraits, Credit: Paintings by Emile B Klein

Tannah and Coley are twin Gospel musicians living in an economically depressed community. Beyond the stereotypes we discover how two high-schoolers...

Bought by WDBM

Added: Feb 09, 2013
Length: 15:02
Purchases: 1

StoryCorps: James Clyburn and Syndey Reed

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn talks with his granddaughter Sydney Reed about his career in politics.

Bought by WEZU

Added: Feb 05, 2013
Length: 02:50
Purchases: 1

Rodney King on Forgiveness and Being a Negro

From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank

"I have been challenged to fight for saying 'can't we all get along.' I’ve had people say I want to kick your ass for saying that." - Rodney King I...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

Added: Nov 14, 2012
Length: 06:48
Purchases: 2

Through My by Deneena Miles

From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus

Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

Added: Nov 12, 2012
Length: 02:52

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

Latitude News Podcast #3 - Black in China

From: Latitude News

Caption: Jo Bai and her fellow English teachers in Yuyao, China.

Jo is African American. Jo lives in Yuyao, China. Jo gets a lot of attention.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Aug 27, 2012
Length: 13:14
Purchases: 1

Our Father Who: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messangers (An Introduction)

From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time

Caption: Art Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), Credit: Blue Note Records

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

The Beat: Sean Hill - "Postcard To Eduardo"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

Added: Aug 21, 2012
Length: 01:54

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