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Wanting North by Tanya Barfield
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: April Matthis
The 1840s South. In the thick plantation air, two enslaved sisters spin a poetry of escape. Today’s the day: Field Girl is making her run for freed...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 20:56
Joe Frank & Julius Lester-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Julius Lester
Celebrating two radio legends who passed through Pacifica radio station WBAI in New York City in the seventies on their way to greater glory- I was...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:36
NEA Jazz Master Moments with Vocalist, Dee Dee Bridgewater
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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In these short pieces, Dee Dee talks about scatting, her big break, and studying the moves of Betty Carter.

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


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 13
Zora Neale Hurston
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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This Cutting Edge Special looks at the life of writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:16
Homemade Stories: The Struggle is Real
From: WBEZ
Caption: Shannon Cason's Homemade Stories: The Struggle is Real
In this one-hour special, Homemade Stories: The Struggle is Real, award-winning storyteller Shannon Cason (The Moth, Snap Judgment) takes us on a j...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WCMU Michigan, KJZZ, Capital Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 56
Shakespeare is a Black Woman
From: Richard Paul - with Folger Library
Series: Shakespeare in American Life with Sam Waterston
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Shakespeare in American Politics

Bought by WCPN, WSKG, KCPW Salt Lake City, WVPE, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 8
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1505 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/03/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Atonal modes are heard by Wayne Shorter and Bobby Hutcherson a couple decades apart. Out of a dream with Tamir Hendelman then west coast jazz, Bill...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WOUB


  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 4
The Spiritual Edge: Afro-Cuban movement with meaning
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Spiritual Edge
Caption: Dancers at Dance Mission Theater, Credit: Thomas Levy
Some people who take dance classes regularly have a saying: “Dance is my church.” Dancer Stella Adelman says just that about going to Afro-Cuban f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:26
  • Purchases: 1
Multi Ethnic Theater: Finding common ground through theater
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Cast of Multi Ethnic Theater's "Jitney"
In the garage of a house in San Francisco’s Excelsior district, rehearsal is underway. In the space where a car would normally go is a stage set: a...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 07:15
Bopping: Art in the Making from the West Side of Chicago by Tariq Weaver
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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What are the origins of this dance? How did it begin? Who are the rising talents of this subculture based on the West Side of Chicago? And how has ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 11:57
Emmett and Trayvon
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Caption: Mike Wiley performing Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.

Bought by KUER and WUNC


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Sound Artist, Jennie C. Jones
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The winner of the 2012 Joyce Wein Artist Prize discusses the relationship in her work between visual art and sonic art. [26:26]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 26:26
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 12: Lomax’s and Prison Poetry
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century an...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 3
Goin' Home: A Celebration of the Life of Amiri Baraka
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Caption: Amiri Baraka and Dred-Scott Keyes
Funeral services for New Jersey’s last poet laureate, Amiri Baraka, was held at Newarks’ Symphony Hall earlier this week with several thousand peop...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:02
Celebrating 40 years of dancing the African diaspora
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Twelve dancers -- men and women all dressed in black rehearsal clothes -- move with fierce and graceful undulations through the space. They dance t...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 1
Moving Closer
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KLCC


  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 2
Fresh Talk: Valerie Cassel Oliver
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Valerie Cassel Oliver
In Houston, Cathy Byrd meets Senior Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver at the Contemporary Arts Museum to tour Valerie’s latest exhibition project: Radi...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 12:35
The Beat: Sean Hill - "Postcard To My Third Crush Today"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
The Beat: Sean Hill - "Postcard To Eduardo"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:54
The Beat: Sean Hill - "Postcard To Wrong Address"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:12
The Beat: Sean Hill - "Postcard To Anna"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:13
The Beat: Sean Hill - "Postcard To Nostalgia"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:54
Youth Radio Institute: Jasmine Farmer (American Graduate)
From: WUNC
Series: American Graduate
Caption: Jasmine Farmer
The WUNC Summer Youth Radio Institute continues with a story from 19-year-old Jasmine Farmer.

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with The Birmingham Sunlights
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2009 NEA National Heritage Fellows, The Birmingham Sunlights, discuss the creation of their group and their unique "Birmingham sound."

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 25:40
SOUL TIME (Part A)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
Caption: Labelle (Nona Hendrix, Patti Labelle & Sarah Dash)
From The Jackson Five to Labelle. From Quincy Jones to The Soulful Strings. From Jr. Walker & The All-stars to Etta James. This should tell you wh...

Bought by KFCF FM, WUFT, KZYX, KPIP-LP, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2010
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 7