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A Conversation with Gospel Singers, The Paschall Brothers
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Three generations of Paschalls, now NEA Heritage Fellows, have brought beautiful harmonies to their community. [35:21]

Bought by KPIP-LP and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 35:22
  • Purchases: 2
PPW - Louisiana: No Longer Invisible
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: Lead Belly, Credit: Lead Belly Foundation
We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...

Bought by WWNO and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 50:03
  • Purchases: 2
PPW - Alabama: Black Birds Singing
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project , Credit: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 54:18
  • Purchases: 4
NEA Jazz Moments with KEITH JARRETT
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Keith Jarrett. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn about ...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 15
How Richie Havens Started Woodstock (5:20)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Richie Havens
Folk singing legend Richie Havens died Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at the age of 72 of a sudden heart attack. In this excerpt from the documentary Ba...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
Platinum Gospel "Shirley Caesar"
From: Barbara Kovacs
Series: Christian Minstrel Pioneers
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Join host Bill Bulbeck as he explores the life, times and music from the reigning "Queen of Gospel" Shirley Caesar in Episode #2 of Christian Minst...

Bought by KZYX and WSGE


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Rowena Gore-Simmons and Kenya Gore
From: StoryCorps
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Rowena Gore-Simmons speaks with her daughter, Kenya Gore, about the year Rowena spent in prison.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
Hamlin & Chicago by Aliscia Ivy
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:25
In My World by Tomara Dickerson
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:04
Bobby Hutcherson: Master of the vibes
From: KALW
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For nearly 50 years now, a jazz artist who now resides in Northern California has enjoyed a career as one of the great performers on the vibraphone...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 14:07
StoryCorps Griot: Queen Jackson and Debra MacKillop
From: StoryCorps
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Queen Jackson tells her case manager, Debra MacKillop, how she became homeless.

Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 3
Encore Presentation of Broadway Star Lawrence Hamilton
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tin Roof Project Encore Presentations
Caption: Lawrence Hamilton
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton tells his own true story of his childhood in racially-divided south Arkansas. These encore presentations of our Tin...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Dietitian on Feeding Bob Marley Before He Died of Cancer
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
Caption: Bob Marley on Tour in Dublin July 6, 1980, Credit: Eddie Mallin via Flickr
Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
"Gil Scott-Heron: In His Own Words"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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Producer Dred-Scott Keyes looks at the life and music of poet, musician and composer, Gil Scott-Heron, who passed in New York City on May 27th.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:03
Arthur "Dooley" Wilson (Casablanca), May 30, 1953
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Although he appeared on stage and in more than 20 motion pictures, Dooley Wilson won immortality for his role as "Sam" in the 1942 film Casablanca....

  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
The People Could Fly
From: Miles Tokunow
Caption: It's Superman!, Credit: by Dude Crush
This is a telling of Virginia Hamilton's American Black Folktale "The People Could Fly."

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioFreePalmer, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WSLR, WDBM and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 11
The Time Traveler: a Man, a Dream, a Machine
From: Emily Corwin
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A boy's grief led him to an extraordinary discovery...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WJCT, KUT, KUOW, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2009
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 5
An Evening with Koko Taylor
From: Southwest Stages
Series: Southwest Stages
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An hour of Music & Interviews with Koko Taylor, recorded live at the 2003 KBAC Summer Blast Music Festival in Santa Fe, NM.

Bought by KMUW, North State Public Radio, and KGOU


  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe - Muhammad Ali
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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To be the “Greatest of All Time,” boxing legend Muhammad Ali says you have to believe in yourself.

Bought by WEZU, KRZA, KFAI Minneapolis, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 10
This I Believe - Van Jones
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Environmental activist and White House advisor Van Jones believes in making his late father proud.

Bought by KGUA, WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, and WEZU


  • Added: May 07, 2009
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 4
Aha Moment: Underground Railroad
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
9. Dawud Raamah, dentist and soul singer
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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Dayjob is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
Cliff - A Tribute to My Father
From: Jacob C. Norman
Series: Remembering Remus
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Reflections on My Father

  • Added: Jun 16, 2008
  • Length: 12:54
Remembering Dr. King's Assassination
From: Philip Graitcer
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Seniors in Atlanta Remember Where They Were When King Died

Bought by WABE, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 4
WWOZ Street Talk- Chief Warren McDaniels Memorial
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Chief Warren McDaniels, the first black fire chief in New Orleans passed away on Feb. 23.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2008
  • Length: 06:28