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681.G: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 5/10/2024 6:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including TELEMANN: Concerto for 3 trumpets in D, TWV 54. Kurpfälziches Ch Orch Mannheim/Nicol Matt; Otto Sauter, trumpet.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Season 1, Episode 10 - 'Power of Voice' feat Dominique Daye Hunter
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Dominique Daye Hunter explores her art's inspiration and its role in challenging the undervaluing of art.

Bought by WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:05
  • Purchases: 3
Through Afrofuturism and Spray Paint, Reggie LeFlore Expresses Black Joy
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Minnesota artist Reggie LeFlore poses among his paintings. , Credit: Sheila Regan
Reggie LeFlore is a muralist with street art and graffiti influences. His first solo gallery exhibition takes place at Gamut Gallery in downtown Mi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 31, 2021
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 1
Fodder
From: Black Mountain Radio
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Poet Douglas Kearney and musician Val jeanty discuss their experimental hybrid album, Fodder.

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:09
Art with a Sense of Place - Part One
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Art with a Sense of Place considers creative projects that respond to a physical space and those that react to or embrace a historic moment, a cult...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:47
Revealing Black Life In The 1940s
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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After he died, John Glanton's photo negatives were forgotten. But then a relative unearthed those images from a trash bag in a garage. The result: ...

Bought by KBEM


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Bending Nimbus To Her Will
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Denise "Seven" Bailey and Tristan Al-Haddad, Credit: Kathy M Helgeson/Dunwoody College of Technology
Designing Nimbus—a giant, donut-shaped sculpture for Nicollet Mall—was just the beginning. Artist Tristan Al-Haddad also needed a talented crew to ...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 04:21
Drawing History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Amer...

Bought by WCNY, WJAB, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Drawing History (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Ame...

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, Harford Community Radio, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Ep. 11: All Eyez on Andrew Moore
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
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Andrew Moore’s front yard used to host an enormous political art installation. His front yard installation was steeped in political turmoil and sho...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 15:25
  • Purchases: 1
How Jason Moran Amplifies Art and Jazz
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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American virtuoso Jason Moran is a genius jazz pianist known for performing experimental compositions in collaborative projects with visual artists...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 18:11
251: Why Make Art? / 252: Gateway Moments (Live), 3/3/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Why Make Art?" - Most of us stop making art around middle school. What can we learn from the people who never stopped? HOUR TWO: "Gate...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
The Hampton Years
From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show
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Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton explores the education of famous artists John Biggers and Samella Lewis.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 50:20
The Untold Story of the First Annual Fred Yiran African Arts Day
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us down to Lake George to experience the first...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 30:36
BHM Special: Driving While Black (promo)
From: With Good Reason
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The untold stories of all-black sports leagues - Celebrated poet Kiki Petrosino on poetry and police violence - Mapping the KKK - A history of revo...

Bought by WKMS, WNSB, and KMUD


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
BHM Special: Driving While Black (hour)
From: With Good Reason
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The untold stories of all-black sports leagues - Celebrated poet Kiki Petrosino on poetry and police violence - Mapping the KKK - A history of revo...

Bought by WKMS, WNSB, WMUU-LP, KGNU Community Radio, and WLIW


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
BHM Special: Driving While Black (half)
From: With Good Reason
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The untold stories of all-black sports leagues - Celebrated poet Kiki Petrosino on poetry and police violence

Bought by WVAS, WNSB, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Driving While Black (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The untold stories of all-black sports leagues - Celebrated poet Kiki Petrosino on poetry and police violence - Mapping the KKK - A history of revo...

Bought by WCPN and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Driving While Black (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The untold stories of all-black sports leagues - Celebrated poet Kiki Petrosino on poetry and police violence - Mapping the KKK - A history of revo...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WCNY, WTJU, XRAY.fm, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
Driving While Black (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The untold stories of all-black sports leagues - Celebrated poet Kiki Petrosino on poetry and police violence

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WFHB, WNSB, KMUD and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
BHM Special: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WNSB


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
BHM Special: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WUGA (part of GPB), Georgia Public Broadcasting, WNSB, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
BHM Special: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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A conversation with former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey.

Bought by WNSB, KRZA, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
Leaps and Bounds
From: Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.
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David Grannum is a 16-year-old ballet dancer in Fall River, Massachusetts. He’s only been dancing ballet for four years but he’s caught the attenti...

Bought by HowSound and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 11, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 2
Pulitzer100: Natasha Trethewey On Native Guard (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: :30