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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Well of Souls," which dives further into the earliest history of the banjo than anyone has gone befo...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Feb 10, 2024
- Length: 29:32
- Purchases: 1
At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 22:24
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Ayim Darkeh speaks with his mother, Shirley, about his experiences being one of the few Black students at his predominantly white elementary sc...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 1
From: Brian Bahouth
Dom Flemons is an American singer/songwriter who has been recording albums and touring for the last 15 years. He rose to prominence with the Africa...
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 31:16
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
- Purchases: 1
On this week's WBB talk show, we have a couple of gifted guests. One uses her superpowers to introduce Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2019
- Length: 01:00:01
Welcome to this week's WBB Talkshow.
This week, we're excited to introduce you to a fantastic line-up of business owners.
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
On this week's WBB talk show, we feature two amazing women who have found solutions to some of the problems affecting the African-American community.
- Added: Oct 28, 2019
- Length: 01:00:10
On this week's WBB talk show, we feature two guests who are remarkable and dynamic examples of women walking in their purpose unapologetically.
- Added: Sep 02, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
On this week's WBB talk show, we're taking you on a journey to West Africa.
That is where the soul of today's guest was marinated in tradition and ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2019
- Length: 59:59
Experience a slice of American history as two journalists share their knowledge about Martha’s Vineyard and parts of the American south.
- Added: Jun 30, 2019
- Length: 29:55
This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile guitarist Big Joe Williams and harmonica ace John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who last recorded together, this week in 1947.
- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Robert Johnson, who made his recording debut the week of Thanksgiving, 1936.
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Big Maceo, who recorded his “magnum opus” — the barnstorming instrumental “Chicago Breakdown” — this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 11, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile the Memphis Jug Band, whose 1929 recording, “K.C. Moan,” was one of the 84 selections on the “Anthology of American Folk Music.”
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Sid Hemphill, who was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, this week in 1942.
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Eddie Boyd, who recorded the only national chart hit for Chicago's J.O.B. label, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Sleepy John Estes, who ran into a little difficulty making his way to a recording session in New York City, this week in 1938.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
A discussion of the important the heritage of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 31:35
Craig Atkinson talks keeping calm, taking rides, and getting traction.
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 32:49
Walk through a chapter of America's darkest history in Birmingham, Alabama as we visit iconic sites that were central in the civil rights movement.
Bought by KISA Digital Studios
- Added: Jan 31, 2016
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 1
This is a story about how leaders of charities and organizations that help people in poverty, are joining together to help lower poverty. A couple ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 03:42
Stanley Nelson talks history, irony, and delivering the unexpected.
- Added: Oct 03, 2015
- Length: 15:03
