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Welcome to “Unveiling the Ancestors,” a radio special that sheds light on who we are today by looking at WHO came before us. I'm your host, Anne Ho...
- Added: Nov 24, 2023
- Length: 53:10
The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 16:36
HOUR ONE: 'The Year Of Return' - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores...
- Added: Sep 02, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 45:28
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 1
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon celebrates the music of Muddy Waters with three of his former bandmates and maste...
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, Delmarva Public Media, KUAR, KTRL, KMUN and more
- Added: Sep 17, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 42
Season 2, Episode 4
'The Myth of the Super Predator debunks an idea first made famous by then-first lady Hillary Clinton, an idea we still haven't...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 30:03
- Purchases: 1
Season 1.5, Episode 2
In 1968, Yvonne Bechet became one of the first female police officers in New Orleans. She was also the first African America...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 1
Episode 2. Spoon talks about a dog rescue program that took place inside Lancaster State Prison. He talked to Common the rapper, Matthew visits a s...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
First episode. Spoon talks about growing up in the desert, reads a poem about maggots and a pig, and Matthew visits his parents.
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
“A singer with a strong, lustrous tone and an amiably regal presence onstage.” So says the New York Times of the acclaimed vocalist, composer and a...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, KMXT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 04, 2019
- Length: 29:34
- Purchases: 4
In our new special series, we hear the personal stories of transgender people of faith and where they are finding spiritual homes among America's r...
Bought by WPSU
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
How do you feel about the future? Do you feel hopeful? Do you feel scared? Can we move forward together as a country? In our Season 1 finale, Carve...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 30:48
- Purchases: 1
How do you stand against evil, but not the evildoer? How do you go to war for what's right with love for the people you're fighting? Carvell Wallac...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 38:36
Do you love America? No, seriously, Carvell Wallace wants to know: do you love America? Today, he talks with Van Jones and Rabia Chaudry about love...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 39:18
It's like visiting a small town...but it's also like visiting the remaining survivors of an apocalypse. Carvell Wallace goes to his hometown of McK...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 32:01
Going out and talking to people is a little thing, but it's also a big thing. Especially if those people are different from you, or might not like ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 01:01:00
How can we come together as a country when it seems like so many things are working to keep us apart? Host Carvell Wallace turns to Shereen Marisol...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 01:09:48
Who or what is in your own past right now that you need to face, but aren’t facing—and why not? Carvell Wallace has a theory that maybe this whole ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 57:02
Kiki Petrosino imagines an escape from a fairy house.
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
This show is part II of our Juneteenth Series focusing African-American music and venues in North Tulsa from the 40's through the 60's. We intervi...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 58:58
Composer Pamela Z lets us know what a phonolog was, how great the Museum of Jurassic Technology is (about which she co-wrote an opera), and how to ...
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 29:30
We continue Black History Month with Phyllis Becker. Coordinator of the Riverfront Reading Series in Kansas City, her own publications include the ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
