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LaMont Dottin
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:00
WoodSongs 1046: Hubby Jenkins and Down Hill Strugglers
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Hubby Jenkins on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes singer and multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins plus old time string band ...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KMSU, KEDT, KCHW, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 58
WoodSongs 989: The BB King Blues Band
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: BB King's daughter Claudette King on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes The BB King Blues Band with special guests Claudette King and Michael Lee .

Bought by KUAR, Radio Bristol, WVTF, KEDT, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 42
WoodSongs 701: Victor Wooten
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Victor Wooten on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Victor Wooten five-time Grammy winner and founding member of the super-gr...

Bought by KTRL, KDLG, WEJP-LP 107.1, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Radio Bristol and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 30
Ultimate Fugitive
From: KLCC
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This is a story about an Ultimate player trying to outrun his past. When he stopped running, he was in Eugene, Oregon. Where for the next four yea...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 57:28
  • Purchases: 2
WoodSongs 798: The Fairfield Four and The McCrary Sisters
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The legendary Fairfield Four perform on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes two of the most prominent and respected names in the worlds of pop, rock,...

Bought by KLRE, Angelica Community Radio, KTRL, KMUN, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 39
WoodSongs ENCORE 905: Blind Boys of Alabama
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Ricky Williams, Jimmy Carter and Ben Moore on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's ENCORE broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes five-time Grammy Award-winning gospel group The Blind Boys of A...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WETS, KHNS, Rhythm & News Service, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Re:sound - The Family Ties Show
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast
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This hour, stories about family ties, love and loss.

Bought by KOSU, Troy Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Michigan Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Dem 2 Brothers & a Grill
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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The same people who told me it wouldn't work, they come every day.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Lift
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Carver Elementary students line up to begin the school day at the campus in San Francisco's Bayview district., Credit: Lee Romney / KALW
Meeting family needs in a city of widening wealth gaps is a big lift. Studies show that when parents are engaged in their kids’ education, it has a...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fishing with Delton
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Born and raised in Compton. It was big to come out here and see something different.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Special for Mother's Day, Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
From: Making Contact
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For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Soul Source
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I get so much love from the customers in here. It’s better than where I came from.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
What's next? (with Alexis Frank)
From: Kaizar Campwala
Series: Closer Than They Appear
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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
What can I give? (with Eva Paterson and Aunt Bea)
From: Kaizar Campwala
Series: Closer Than They Appear
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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
Is this worth it? (with Van Jones and Rabia Chaudry)
From: Kaizar Campwala
Series: Closer Than They Appear
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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
Why me? (with Shamrace Mims)
From: Kaizar Campwala
Series: Closer Than They Appear
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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
If not me, then who? (with Dr. Ayaz Virji)
From: Kaizar Campwala
Series: Closer Than They Appear
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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
Who is America? (with Shereen Marisol Meraji)
From: Kaizar Campwala
Series: Closer Than They Appear
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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
How did I get here? (With Mahershala Ali)
From: Kaizar Campwala
Series: Closer Than They Appear
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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
Vander Pearson
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I've been here through the good times and the bad times. At one time, I was the only business on this block.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 04:16
WoodSongs 878: Linkin' Bridge and Run Boy Run
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The powerful voices of Linkin' Bridge.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes singing group from the west end of Louisville, Kentucky and finalists on ...

Bought by KDLG, WETS, High Plains Public Radio, WLPR , WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
WoodSongs 830: Bobby Rush and Jericho Woods
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Caption: Blues legend Bobby Rush!
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues legend Bobby Rush plus Kentucky roots rock band Jericho Woods.

Bought by KENW, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KJJF, RadioFreePalmer, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 7
Becoming a doula for those who may need one most
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Client of doula Traver Riggins, 7 months pregnant., Credit: Leila Day
A doula is a woman who helps another woman through the process of childbirth. Traver Riggins says when she learned about how a doula could help, sh...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
LITTLE WHITE LIE -- Lacey and Peggy Schwartz
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Peggy & Lacey Schwartz, San Francisco, CA 8/5/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lacey and Peggy Schwartz talk capturing the right moment, the fluid nature of reality, and the revelation of openness.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 18:09
  • Purchases: 1