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The new exhibit at NMAAH&C illuminate history, community and culture. Co-curator Aaron Bryant walks us through it.
- Added: May 31, 2017
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 4
McBride’s latest book looks to understand what shaped James Brown-- one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Johnnetta Cole remembers when she wasn't allowed in museums because of segregation, and that informs her determination to inspire a love of art mu...
- Added: Mar 24, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
In her new work Baltimore, playwright Kirsten Greenidge grapples with the issue of race on college campuses.
Bought by WABE, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
In her new play, Sweat, Lynn Nottage gives voice to the human cost of workers without work.
Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
RadioActive Youth Media producer Krubel Amare breaks down the true essence of Hip Hop culture, and how it’s impacted himself and the people around ...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 06:57
- Purchases: 1
From Pericles to Tupac Shakur, Wayne Carr has the uncanny ability to embody fully-realized characters.
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Tazewell Thompson may be wowing critics and audiences with his direction of the opera Appomattox, but he’s an equally brilliant theater director an...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Richard Hunt talks about creating large pieces of abstract art for public spaces and reflects on his time on the National Council of the Arts
Bought by WNJR and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary
August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 4
Writer, director, and actor, Thomas W. Jones II makes sense of the world through theater
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African American community through narrative quilts.
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:22
- Purchases: 2
Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KLCC
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 2
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 44:14
For more than 40 years, Bobby Hutcherson has lived a life most artists can only dream about. After making his name in the 1960s in New York as one ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 09:57
Artist FAITH RINGGOLD speaks with Mosaic of Art host George Fishman about her exhibition at the Miami Art Museum, entitled "American People, Black ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2011
- Length: 04:43
In the 1970?s, dancer Gail Lyons and drummer Emile Latimer discovered love in Buffalo, New York through West African music. After all these years,...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
Artist BAYUNGA KIALEUKA describes painting Haiti Earthquake Commemorative mural.
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 05:39
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: Animators Mark Henn and Mike Surrey talk to Andrea Chase about the pleasures and perils of returning to hand-drawn anima...
- Added: Dec 11, 2009
- Length: 15:03
Billie Holiday writing the song "Strange Friuit" - This poet is a student at Morgan Park High School (Chicago, IL).
- Added: Mar 22, 2007
- Length: 02:47
While the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was an enormous victory, for a time it also meant more hardship for some African Americans in the South. Charmi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 28, 2006
- Length: 06:05
- Purchases: 1
the Big Chief of the Flaming Arrows mardi gras indian tribe talks about his new life post-katrina in Austin
- Added: Sep 06, 2006
- Length: 04:12
- Added: Feb 02, 2006
- Length: 05:51
