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A great album from 1999. The album is "Double Shot" by Snooky Pryor and Mel Brown.

  • Added: May 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
Caption: Sonny Boy II
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
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“The police had surrounded the house. They had been there for quite a while. They didn’t want to try to rush the house because they thought he migh...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:07
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As a biomedical engineer in orthobiologics, Neil Thompson still had to do a lot of public speaking. He was a self-professed awful public speaker, ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 31:48
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HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Meet?" - Studies show we're all disappointed with our friendships. Is it time to rethink the way we gather? HOUR TWO: "Hip H...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
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The Gould Piano Trio play Ravel's piano trio, and Er-Gene Kahng plays the 2nd violin concerto by Florence Price

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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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
Caption: Session 2, Credit: Kirk Klocke
Physician, writer, and speaker Mellody Hayes discusses how she helps clients "step into their power."

  • Added: Jan 06, 2020
  • Length: 44:26
Caption: Dr. Tommy J. Curry
Where can the experiences of black men and boys be told and justified? Perhaps not within academia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Rochanda Mitchell is an expert in fetal medicine. She’s also a black woman pregnant with her first child who understands all too well that eve...

Bought by WKSU, KBIA, WCPN, High Plains Public Radio, WGTE Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: The Empathy Tours
New “empathy tours” are telling local histories of African Americans and helping heal racial wounds. In Danville, Virginia, which was briefly the ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WLIW, KRDP and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
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The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wom...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, Morehead State Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, Vermont Public, WHYY and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 15
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The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wome...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WLIW, KMUN, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
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What did segregation look like in everyday life and culture? We tell the stories of an African American opera singer and a white woman who transf...

Bought by WCPN, WCNY, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 11
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-What did the process of legal desegregation look like in everyday life and culture? Jennifer Ritterhouse shares the story of Sarah Patton “Pattie...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WLIW, KRDP and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Bob Kustra interviews Esi Edugyan about her novel "Washington Black"

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 30:16
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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
Caption: Ed Peeples
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 09, 2019
  • Length: 25:37
  • Purchases: 1
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On Sept. 27 and 28, the most notable poets of our time will gather in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower ...

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


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Courtesy of the Decarcerated Podcast, host Marlon Peterson hosts a live conversation with Common Justice founder Danielle Sered. Sered’s New Book,...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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-In late August 1619, 20 or more enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia at what’s now called Fort Monroe. They were the first Africans documented in...

Bought by WVAS, Kansas Public Radio, KWMR, KVSC, KRDP and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 12
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Prisons, police and punishment through incarceration. Are they with us forever in the land of the free? Sustained campaigns for change are beginnin...

Bought by KSPC, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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After seeing ads for home DNA tests on TV, John decided to give it a try. Just spit into a cup—what did he have to lose… or gain?

  • Added: Jul 22, 2019
  • Length: 13:23
Caption: Silver's Grocery on Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis in 1967., Credit: Minneapolis Star & Tribune Negatives, July 1, 1967-August 31, 1967: Box 263. Minneapolis and St Paul Newspaper Negatives Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.
During the summer of 1967, Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis went up in flames. This was during a period known as the Long, Hot Summer when frus...

Bought by KVSC and MPR News Stations


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 2