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Remembering Emmett Till
From: World Footprints LLC
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Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 21:04
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #145 - Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Hour 2 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Mavis Staples
Hour 2 of a music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 194...

Bought by KFSK, KNCT FM, Capital Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #144 - Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Hour 1 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Mavis Staples
A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...

Bought by KFSK, KUHF, WRVO Public Media, and KSJE


  • Added: Jan 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Franklin, Tennessee’s Fuller Story: History beyond the Battlefield and Whiskey
From: World Footprints LLC
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Hear about the initiative Franklin, Tennessee has launched to preserve and share a fuller and accurate truth about its place in American history.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 32:22
I Am Not Your Negro (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
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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
Thelonious Monk: From Myth to Man (Part 2)
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, presenting the second of a two-part program exploring the life and music of Thelonious Monk, with special gue...

Bought by KMUW, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Thelonious Monk: From Man to Myth (Part 1)
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hourlong program of classic jazz, presenting the first of a two-part program exploring the life and music of Thelonious Monk, with special guest...

Bought by KMUW, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and KGLT


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
Portraits of Harlem
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring musical tributes to the so-called “Black Metropolis,” including Duke Ellington’s “Harlem,” Roy Eldr...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, 90.5 WSNC, WUCF, and WCPN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Faith Leaders Organizing for Racial Justice and Peaceful Communities
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Three people who are engaged in one part of the community organizing efforts going on around the country to secure racial equity. All three share i...

Bought by KUHF, WUFT, KUOW, and WXDU


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Sighting The Sites Of The New Orleans Slave Trade
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans; by William Henry Brooke, engraver; engraving with watercolor from The Slave States of America, vol. 1; London: Fisher and Son, 1842, Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
This episode plots points on the map of the domestic slave trade in New Orleans. Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson visited physical landmarks that bea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians: 50 years and still going strong
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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A half-century of musical innovation and self-determination, told by AACM co-founder (currently AACM-New York president) and 2010 NEA Jazz Master M...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WMUU-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 3
New Orleans All the Way Live: "Congo Square / Algiers Point"
From: George Ingmire
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An hour-long program exploring the musical, cultural, and culinary landscape of New Orleans.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
A Code To Live By in Appalachia
From: Mary Helen Miller
Caption: The Presbyterian church in Vardy, Tennessee, was a community center for some Melungeon families. , Credit: Mary Helen Miller
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WTJU


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 16:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Dietitian on Feeding Bob Marley Before He Died of Cancer
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
Caption: Bob Marley on Tour in Dublin July 6, 1980, Credit: Eddie Mallin via Flickr
Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
Oscar Grant and Police Accountability
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We take a look at the Police killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, and the debate over who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Breaking Through the Blue Wall of Silence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oakland protestors lay in the position Oscar Grant was in when he was killed, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
Who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong—the police chief or the people? Cities across the country are creating civilian oversig...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 05, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Dear Martin: Jazz Tributes to Martin Luther King Jr.
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Perfect for Black History Month (February)or MLK Day (January), Night Lights presents this one-hour program of jazz tributes to Dr. Martin Luther K...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, Radio Catskill, WVPE, WSLR, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2008
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 66