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Episode 1 - Help This Garden Grow
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:27
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
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
TSSAAPR230207 The Soul Show: "Family Man" Barrett of The Wailers, Stevie Wonder's 4th Masterpiece
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
Join host Mike Canton for a double feature: (1) a tribute to Aston Barrett of The Wailers (2) a 50th-anniversary celebration of Stevie Wonder’s cla...

Bought by KCHW and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 2
231110: Putting It All on the Line with Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. and Jacqueline Patterson, 11/10/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate affects everyone, but not equally. Those affected first and worst are often the same communities that suffer from housing and income inequa...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
TSSAAPR230621: Emergent '23 Music from Kassa Overall, Rasheed Ali, more
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
The Soul Show debuts the latest installment of Rasheed Ali's "1968" series, plus creative jazz/hiphop work by Kassa Overall on 2023's "Animals" rel...

Bought by WPVM 103.7, RADIOLEX, WYAP, KCHW, and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 5
WoodSongs 835: Sweet Honey in the Rock
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The legendary Sweet Honey in the Rock on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Grammy winning folk and civil rights legends, an all-woman, African-Am...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, Radio Bristol, GCR (Global Community Radio), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KHNS and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 49
Black Vocal Harmony Groups of the 1930s & 40s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A hour-long program of jazz music, exploring the music of African-American singing ensembles in the decades of the Great Depression and the Second ...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, WEZU, and WNCU


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
We Shall Overcome: Civil-Rights Jazz
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Black History Special A one-hour program of jazz music, exploring the connection between jazz and civil rights in 20th-century America.

Bought by KALW, WLRH, Morehead State Public Radio, KLCC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
The Spiritual Edge: Becoming Muslim Special 59 minutes
From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge Becoming Muslim
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We explore the motivations and challenges of converts as they carve out a uniquely American path for being Muslim in the United States. We profile ...

Bought by KALW, Nevada Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WKAR, WLRH and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
National Writers Series: Imbolo Mbue and Alan Lightman
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Discussions with authors Imbolo Mbue and Alan Lightman.

Bought by WKAR, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
Healing a Country’s Wounds: Transitional Justice
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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This time on Peace Talks Radio, we’ll talk about ways that countries have addressed systematic human rights violations after they emerge from perio...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Teach the Geek to Speak
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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As a biomedical engineer in orthobiologics, Neil Thompson still had to do a lot of public speaking. He was a self-professed awful public speaker, ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 31:48
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Tyehimba Jess
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess reads from his multi-award winning poetry book, OLIO, delving into the voices of African American creatives in ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
An African-American and Latinx History of the United States: A Conversation with Paul Ortiz
From: John Shuck
Caption: Paul Ortiz
A "Bottom-Up" history of the U.S. from an African-American and Latinx viewpoint.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WJAB


  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 2
Revisiting Deliverance (promo)
From: With Good Reason
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How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known works of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated a...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
Revisiting Deliverance (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known works of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated a...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, WLPR , KUHF, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by WCNY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, KRZA, WLPR , KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Birth of Cool Songbook
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hourlong program of classic jazz, exploring a collection of influential jazz material know as "The Birth of the Cool" recorded by a circle of mu...

Bought by Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Degrees of Separation: Higher Ed (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Stories of massive student debt and for-profit school scams make it clear that the post-secondary system can be an unfriendly place to many disadva...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Degrees of Separation: Higher Ed (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Stories of massive student debt and for-profit school scams make it clear that the post-secondary system can be an unfriendly place to many disadva...

Bought by WHFR, KWMR, WCPN, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Degrees of Separation: Higher Ed (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Stories of massive student debt and for-profit school scams make it clear that the post-secondary system can be an unfriendly place to many disadva...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and WVAS


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Degrees of Separation: Higher Ed (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Stories of massive student debt and for-profit school scams make it clear that the post-secondary system can be an unfriendly place to many disadva...

Bought by WCPN and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2