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- Added: Sep 20, 2023
- Length: 52:48
- Purchases: 2
Nina Simone, the “High Priestess of Soul,” was an enigmatic and eccentric figure in the world of jazz. This week on Afterglow, we’ll feature Simone...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 59:00
HOUR ONE: "Empathy For Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "Everything is Exhaus...
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more
- Added: Feb 02, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
An hour-long jazz special:
It was a year of raised hopes and devastating tragedy, and the world of jazz continued to reflect both the growing uneas...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WWNO, WRGY, Troy Public Radio, KAAD-LP and more
- Added: Jan 02, 2022
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 24
Tribute to one of Blues music's great contributors, Memphis Minnie.
- Added: Sep 15, 2021
- Length: 58:54
This week on On Story we’ll hear from award-winning screenwriter, playwright, producer and director, Kemp Powers who wrote the critically acclaimed...
- Added: Aug 11, 2021
- Length: 54:00
HOUR ONE: "African Cities Of The Future" - The fastest growing cities in the world are in Africa. We'll take you there with a special TTBOOK from A...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
This time on Peace Talks Radio, we’ll talk about ways that countries have addressed systematic human rights violations after they emerge from perio...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Apr 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
James Baldwin was one of the 20th century’s most incisive thinkers and writers. In our own era, as political rhetoric, state violence, and popular ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR
- Added: Feb 03, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Some historical recordings from another era.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 58:58
A revisit to a great album by Buddy Guy recorded in 2001.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 59:54
A collection of Blues songs that have relevance to current issues in 2020
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 59:13
Margaret and Matilda Roumania Peters were sisters and tennis champions in the 1930s, long before Serena and Venus Williams. While still in high sch...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
A virtual trip back in time to November 21st, 1964 to Chicago's Regal Theater to hear B.B. King
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 59:49
A career spanning 50 years, Robert Cray is a major mainstay in the world of Blues music.
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 59:58
A great album from 1999. The album is "Double Shot" by Snooky Pryor and Mel Brown.
- Added: May 10, 2020
- Length: 59:06
Rice Miller is probably the more known "Sonny Boy Williamson" although there was previously to his time an actual Blues harmonica player who's went...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:19
On Feb 3rd, 1945, The all women of color, Six-Triple-Eight, was sent overseas to clear a two year backlog of mail. They were told it would take six...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 05, 2020
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess reads from his multi-award winning poetry book, OLIO, delving into the voices of African American creatives in ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
At the age of 42, Bridget Mason won a court case in California that freed her and her daughters from slavery. She went on to become a California re...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 05:14
This time, we profile the March 1932 recording sessions held by Vocalion in New York City, as the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression.
- Added: Aug 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
