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Life Without Boundaries (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Motherhood is a life without boundaries.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Life Without Boundaries (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Motherhood is a life without boundaries.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Bonus Edition: Meet Jazz Great Gary Bartz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Gary Bartz, Credit: Alan Nahigian
In this tuneful 59 minute podcast, 2024 NEA Jazz Master Saxophonist Gary Bartz talks about his life and career, touching on his roots, influences, ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
Meet National Heritage Fellow Tap Dancer Reggio McLaughlin
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Reggio McLaughlin, Credit: Reggio McLaughlin
Tap Dancer and 2021 National Heritage Fellow, Reginald “Reggio the Hoofer” McLaughlin tap-dancing from Chicago’s subways to stages around the world.

Bought by WDCB, WMPG, RADIOLEX, Spokane Public Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
TSSAAPR240214 The Soul Show: The Catalyst, Norman Connors
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
As a BHM evergreen feature, this episode presents the catalog of 70's bandleader/composer/producer/musician Norman Connors, who was instrumental in...

Bought by KCHW and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 2
Looking Back: Isabel Wilkerson and the Cultural Impact of the Great Migration
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Isabel Wilkerson, Credit: Joe Henson
Author and 2015 National Humanities Medalist Isabel Wilkerson discusses her acclaimed first book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” and the profound impac...

Bought by KMUN, WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KECG, KZUM and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 7
2407: Lincoln as a Philosopher, 2/13/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The 16th President of the United States was born February 12, 1809.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
Well of Souls: The Hidden History of the Banjo
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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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
NL 24-07: Suite History: Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey, 2/12/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
Suite History - Four Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, Morehead State Public Radio, WLRH and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
Cord Jefferson talks about directing and writing "American Fiction" his first film!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Cord Jefferson, Credit: Dennis Gocer
Screenwriter and Director Cord Jefferson discusses his critically acclaimed film, “American Fiction” which is a satirical exploration of popular cu...

Bought by KMUN, WMPG, KECG, WDCB, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 8
257: Black Food: Liberation, Food Justice and Stewardship , 2/14/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Karen Washington and Bryant Terry, Credit: Alex Akamine
The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, wor...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
EE 24-07: Author Jori Lewis on the natural and human history of the peanut , 2/16/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Expanding Our Origin Story (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Cauline Yates was at a family reunion the first time she heard she was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KICI Iowa City, WUGA (part of GPB), WJCU and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Expanding Our Origin Story (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Cauline Yates was at a family reunion the first time she heard she was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KECG, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Expanding Our Origin Story (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Cauline Yates was at a family reunion the first time she heard she was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Expanding Our Origin Story (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Cauline Yates was at a family reunion the first time she heard she was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
From: National Endowment for the Arts
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An interview with the co-directors of the documentary Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes. The interview paints a comprehensive picture of Max Roach's...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:01
It's Time! Max Roach In The 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A centennial tribute to Max Roach, who set the pace for modern jazz drumming and became an outspoken activist for civil rights.

Bought by WSKG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUAT and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
NL 24-01: From Spirituals To Swing, 1/1/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A look at the historic 1938 Carnegie Hall concert and its 1939 follow up, featuring performances by Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and others.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Musician's Spotlight - Portland Cello Project 2023 - 856
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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The Portland Cello Project returns to Musician's Spotlight, and this time they are joined by frequent collaborator singer Saeeda Wright. Doug Jenki...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Winning NIL (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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NIL sent shockwaves through college athletics when it was signed into law in 2021.

Bought by KHEN-LP, Royalton Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida, and KECG


  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Winning NIL (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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NIL sent shockwaves through college athletics when it was signed into law in 2021.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, WMUU-LP, KEDT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Winning NIL (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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NIL sent shockwaves through college athletics when it was signed into law in 2021.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Dinner Theatre (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Thanksgiving Specials
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Michael Carter Jr left America looking for home in Ghana. Now, on his fifth generation farm, he’s growing farmers through what he calls Africulture.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:00

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