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Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Nationally renowned writers, singers, and poets pay tribute to Toni Morrison, whose works have earned her the highest accolades in literature and e...

Bought by WJCT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KWMR

Added: Oct 26, 2012
Length: 28:57
Purchases: 5

What's What: Post-Racial America?

From: Paul McCarthy
Series: What's What Radio

Caption: Tricia Rose, Credit: Rama Hughes

In this conversation, Juanita Brown wanted to go beyond the hype that President Obama's election marked "the end of history" in American race relat...

Added: Aug 21, 2012
Length: 38:28

What's What: What is Poetry?

From: Paul McCarthy
Series: What's What Radio

Caption: Ashley Bryan, Credit: Rama Hughes

Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...

Added: Aug 21, 2012
Length: 44:14

Mental Calisthenics for Teenagers

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Until recently, most researchers believed the brain stopped developing cognitive ability after a certain age. But a new study suggests otherwise.

Bought by WJCT and Harford Community Radio

Added: Jun 11, 2012
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

WorldCanvass: Iowa and Invisible Man

From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass

Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

Added: Jun 04, 2012
Length: 01:57:35

PARIAH -- Writer/director Dee Rees

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Dee Rees, San Francisco, CA 10/11/11, Credit: Andrea Chase

Writer/director Dee Rees talks breakthrough poetry, gender fluidity, and the healing power of ice cream.

Added: Jan 10, 2012
Length: 15:04

Strike

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Caption: portrait of Barbara Johns, who led the walkout

In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

Added: Jan 09, 2012
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 27

Poet and fiction writer, Sapphire

From: New Letters on the Air

Poet and fiction writer Sapphire, best-known for her novel PUSH, which became the award-winning film PRECIOUS, reads from her 2011 novel, THE KID, ...

Bought by WCSU-FM

Added: Nov 16, 2011
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 1

Being Black and Green: African-Americans & the Environment

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Red, Bike & Green's inaugural ride in April 2010, Credit: Red, Bike & Green

African-Americans are helping to lead the environmental movement. We take you to a resettlement community in North Carolina, sustainable farms in W...

Added: Aug 03, 2011
Length: 29:01

Cooking up a new definition of Afrocentrism

From: KALW

Caption: Tsedey Seifu and Faiza Farah founded Afro Urbanites, a social organization that aims to redefine what it means to be Afrocentric

When people from Africa move to the U.S., they’re faced with a question: are they African Americans, or Africans in America? Many tend to call them...

Added: Jun 23, 2011
Length: 06:14

Spoken Soul: Black English in the Classroom

From: With Good Reason

How do educators make sure students don’t suffer for the way they talk?

Added: Jan 27, 2011
Length: 28:57

TAKERS -- Idris Elba interviewed by Andrea Chase

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Idris Elba, San Francisco, CA, August 8, 2010, Credit: Andrea Chase

Idris Elba talks to Andrea Chase about glamorous gangsters, creative cross-pollination, and working in Rwanda.

Added: Aug 22, 2010
Length: 09:31

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: Disney animators Mark Henn and Mike Surrey talk to Andrea Chase

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: Animators Mark Henn and Mike Surrey talk to Andrea Chase about the pleasures and perils of returning to hand-drawn anima...

Added: Dec 11, 2009
Length: 15:03

Barack Obama as Peacemaker (Updated for Nobel Prize) (59:00 / 54:00) -Peace Talks Radio

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

CONTENT DATED. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR BROADCAST. OK FOR ONLINE LISTENING. On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, a panel of guests explore Barack ...

Bought by KUOW and KXOT Public Radio

Added: Oct 09, 2009
Length: 58:44
Purchases: 2

Classic Mardi Gras Songs Profiles - Indian Red

From: David Kunian
Series: Mardi Gras Song Profiles

A short documentary featuring pianist Art Neville and bassist George Porter Jr. about the Mardi Gras standard "Indian Red."

Bought by KSLU, WABE, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KREV-LP

Added: Jan 18, 2008
Length: 05:50
Purchases: 4

Remembering Jazz Sax Master Frank Morgan (27:14 / 7:20)

From: Paul Ingles

The late jazz sax master Frank Morgan tells his remarkable story in material recorded in 2006.

Added: Dec 27, 2007
Length: 34:38

P.O.V. - Revolution '67 Filmmaker Interview

From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.

Filmmaker Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno talks with P.O.V. about the making of her film "Revolution '67"

Added: Sep 20, 2007
Length: 06:52

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah on "Cosmopolitanism" -- and psychologist Marc Hauser on "The Moral Mind."

From: Jenny Attiyeh

ThoughtCast speaks with Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah about his new book, "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" -- followe...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.