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Blues From the Road with Larry Garner 11-05-22

  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:24
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Blues From the Road with Larry Garner from 10-29-22

  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
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The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas face a petrochemical and fracked gas export boom. Super-heat-charged hurricanes strike almost every year. As ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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Normally, The Rough Draft Diaries looks back on someone's success months or years after they've mastered their skill or goal. Today, we're chatting...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dancing in the Streets book cover, Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection
Put on your alligator shoes and Sunday best as we explore the history of the Second Line while we go dancing in the streets of New Orleans.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:55
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Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves and a founder of Bethune-Cookman University. She was often the only woman of color with a sea...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 1
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We talk big moves in the NFL as Cam Newton signs back with the Panthers and OBJ signs with the Rams. We also give an update on the Robert Sarver ha...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:57
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The NCAA is talking about re-alignment as the BIG 10 and the ACC are talking about merging together. The NFL is having a Covid-19 problem can they ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:34
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On September 12, 1992, Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first Black female astronaut. She's an engineer, a scientist, a physician, and an educator....

Bought by KMUN, WRFA-LP, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 3
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After being hospitalized for a month due to a complicated surgery that resulted in a blood infection, Sonia Flunder-Mcnair turned to food and the p...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
  • Purchases: 1
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"Art and writing has always been cathartic for me, even as a child-- Whether it was anxiety, depression, fear, society, love, etc. there was an out...

  • Added: May 10, 2021
  • Length: 06:05
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit, we're checking in with Imani Lateef of Peep Game Comix, a digital comics platform dedicated to the wo...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:02
Caption: The Hustlers Brass Band
It's Carnival Time! UpFront Soul brings you to the Crescent City and lets you catch some beads as we celebrate with Carnival favorites from Profess...

Bought by KAAD-LP, KHNS, WLPR , WOMR, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 8
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On this week's WBB talk show, we have a couple of gifted guests. One uses her superpowers to introduce Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:01
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On this week's WBB talk show, we're taking you on a journey to West Africa. That is where the soul of today's guest was marinated in tradition and ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're talking to artist, Aaron Bivins. We'll talk about his art, football career, and why he is often not reco...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2019
  • Length: 06:14
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Born in 1832, Mary Fields was the first African-American female Star Route mail carrier in the United States. Wearing two guns that she sometimes b...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, for Black History Month, we're talking about Moses Fleetwood Walker. Don't know who he is? Tune in to find out!

  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 06:19
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Poncho’s Latin Spirits break the ice so Guy Davis can make a blues home. Pianist Jay McShann represents another KC pianist Mary Lou Williams, and P...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WOUB, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 7
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A great combination is Tito Puente’s hot Latin jazz playing a Freddie Hubbard tune, format is pared down for Ray Brown and Jimmy Rowles. Mr. Brown ...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 5
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin joins in the space race with the women of Hidden Figures.

Bought by KTXK, WLPR , WSGE, KKRN, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: James Brown
We'll fill your stocking with soulful Christmas classics from James Brown, Louis Armstrong, and Mahalia Jackson, and light your way with Hanukkah g...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WVAS, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Walter Page
It too decades for jazz historians to recognize regional bands for their influence on the music.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Rough Draft Diaries is feeling the blues this week as we hang out with Aayan Naim, leader singer of the blues band, The Good, The Bad, and The ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 06:04
Caption: R. Dwayne Betts of The Symphony Poets
The Symphony is a group of African-American poets originally comprised of John Murillo, R. Reginald Dwayne Betts, Randall Horton, and Marcus Jackso...

Bought by WNJR and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2