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Lots of New '24, and some (evergreen) Odes To Mum
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
Mike Canton presents some new and exciting tracks for 2024, including "New Cali Soul" from Big Apple quartet Infinity Soul. Also, new Billy Price,...

Bought by KCHW


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 1
TSSAAPR240501 The Soul Show remembers Nick Daniels III of N.O.'s Dumpstaphunk
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
Join Mike Canton for a tribute to Nick Daniels III, half of the double-bass unit of Dumpstaphunk. This Big Easy band is renowned on the funk and j...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Many Ways We Mother
From: The Stoop
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An exploration of the different ways Black people parent

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KJZZ, KALW, KECG, and KUHF


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 5
Drew Lanham: Call of the Rural South
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 2: Environmental Writers
Caption: Drew Lanham in Beidler Forest
Interview with Drew Lanham, South Carolina author, Black birder and wildlife biologist.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 33:10
National Writers Series: Honorée Jeffers, Wanda Morris, Vanessa Riley
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Rochelle Riley talks with authors Honorée Jeffers, Wanda Morris, and Vanessa Riley.

Bought by WNMU-FM and WKAR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Johannah Owusu and Madzimoyo Owusu
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Johannah and Madzimoyo at their StoryCorps Recording on July 10th, 2010, in Fort Wayne, Indiana., Credit: Photo by Jorge Rios for StoryCorps.
Madzimoyo Owusu talks with her daughter, Johannah Owusu, about the memory of Madzimoyo’s grandmother.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
It’s Magic: Birth Justice and Black Maternal Health
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Allegra Hill, co-founder of Kindred Space L.A.
Through the work and birth stories of midwife, Allegra Hill, the producers of Re:Work Radio explain how Black midwives in Los Angeles are helping w...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU


  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Wordless and Riveting, “felt / not said” by Mankwe Ndosi and Body MemOri Comes From the Body
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Mankwe Ndosi, Credit: Sally Nixon
The album "felt / not said" by Mankwe Ndosi and Body MemOri features cello, contrabasso, percussion, wildly versatile vocals by Ndosi, but the albu...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 1
Marching Onward
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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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
Black Voices in Healthcare - Ep.6: Becoming
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Black Voices in Healthcare
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Some move through the world with laser focus. Others are swept into the future by forces of fate. This week we hear about the roads you've taken. O...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 42:25
StoryCorps Griot: Shirley Darkeh and Ayim Darkeh
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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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
Medicine for Hearts: The Works of Poet Lisa Marie Brimmer
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Poet Lisa Marie Brimmer, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Lisa Marie Brimmer
Poet Lisa Marie Brimmer writes with heartfelt expression addressing personal and social issues. They are a co-editor of Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
Irma Thomas: The Influences and the Business
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Irma Thomas, Credit: Rick Olivier
A return visit with singer Irma Thomas, who pays tribute to her musical influences - some surprising - and tells Gwen all about the bottom line of ...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
Blocks and Brownstones
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedmad
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 26:22
  • Purchases: 1
From Ethiopia
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Fall 2019
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Being told by my mother that I’m Ethiopian is the only connection that I have to this stranger: my father.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
Maria Stewart – Sandra Kamusukiri – A Visit With a Free Black Woman – Boston 1840
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Maria W. Stewart, as characterized by professor and scholar Sandra Kamusakiri, was a free black woman who lived in Boston, MA, from the 1820s to th...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Woodbine, Onaje Ph.D. — Black Gods of the Asphalt Part Two
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...

Bought by WVAS, KUNM, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Interview w/ poet ELIZABETH ALEXANDER about her memior "The Light of the World"
From: Out of Bounds
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Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir "The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
StoryCorps Griot: Fred Davie and Robert Sanchez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Fred Davie (left) and Robert Sanchez (right)
A social worker who now helps others who are making the transition from prison talks with his mentor about their first meeting inside Sing Sing pri...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and Public Radio for All


  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Griot: Carlos Walton and Jim Saint Germain
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Carlos Walton (left) and Jim Saint Germain (right)
Jim Saint Germain and his former middle school dean discuss pivotal moments in their relationship and lessons Jim learned from his mentor.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Griot: Anthony Merkerson and Charles Jones
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Anthony Merkerson (left) and Charles Jones
Two fathers of children on the autistic spectrum talk about the concerns they have for their sons — two young black men growing up with autism.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:57
StoryCorps: Jamal Faison and Born Blackwell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Jamal Faison (right) with his uncle, Born Blackwell (left)
Jamal Faison talks with his uncle, Born Blackwell, about his release from Rikers Island and the support he received through the challenges of re-en...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Public Radio for All, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
Melody in Isolation
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Melody William's spent the first 18 months of her life sentence in lock-down.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:55
The Ties that Bind a Community
From: Sharayah Lane
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Story about the 23rd and Cherry Fellowship Hall in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. The story follows Nick, a recovering drug addict, on hi...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:08