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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series revisits Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, whose 2020 book, CASTE, is now a bestseller. ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDCB, and WRKF
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
One of the many types of Blues music is a regional style named "Bentonia Blues" as it was founded and based out of Bentonia, Mississippi.
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 59:36
The First band to be recorded for the Alligator Records label.
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 57:40
An unsung guitar hero of the blues who made a BIG mark very few know about.
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 59:01
In this episode, Laine Kaplan-Levenson discusses the first integrated high school sports contest in Louisiana between St. Aug and Jesuit--and talks...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 11:26
- Purchases: 1
Here's an account of healthcare in the rural Alabama. This account was written in 1894. Listen.
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 06:39
The largest attempted slave escape on U.S. soil happened in SouthWest Washington, DC. That's the tale in "Passenger on the Pearl." Young readers d...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 39:45
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than three dozen novels, including The Thicket, Edge of Dark Water, The Bottoms, and A Fine Dark Line. He has...
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 15:19
Everything Sounds explores the the origins and sounds of South African gumboot dancing.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Bassist Dave Holland started his performing career in London.
One night, he received word that a visiting musician from the states wanted to hire ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 09:46
Previously on Culture Clique, we featured Charles McDew's talk "We Are the People We Have Been Waiting For" as presented at Winona State University...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 15:07
- Purchases: 1
On Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 at Winona State University, Charles McDew, former chairman of The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (from 19...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 50:57
- Purchases: 1
Everything Sounds explores the the origins and sounds of South African gumboot dancing.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 12:53
- Purchases: 1
On the last edition Culture Clique, Ms. Joanne Blackmon Bland discussed on Growing up in the Segregated South: The Selma Voting Rights Movement. Sh...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 32:18
- Purchases: 1
The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month.
Remembering: Sugar Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Estaban, Phillis Wheatley, Bill Pic...
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 37:38
In this short piece, the musicians who participated in the recording of the Mardi Gras standard "Handa Wanda" recall its origins and recording.
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Jan 18, 2008
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
Since He was a kid, Wild Man Ivory wanted to be a mardi gras indian. It took a near death experience in Korea before that dream became a reality.
- Added: Aug 11, 2007
- Length: 10:16
