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More than 50 years ago, America’s most prolific composer, Duke Ellington, collaborated with bassist Charlie Mingus and drummer Max Roach to produce...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:59:01
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
The winner of the 2012 Joyce Wein Artist Prize discusses the relationship in her work between visual art and sonic art. [26:26]
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 26:26
- Purchases: 1
We traveled to San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison, to learn about the lasting tradition of arts and spoken word in this well know...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 10:26
- Purchases: 1
We asked poet Kyes Steven of Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to record a workshop for us. Take a listen.
Prison Poetr...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 2
We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 50:03
- Purchases: 2
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:52
- Purchases: 1
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 11:13
"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 16:39
- Purchases: 4
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
The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.
Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 2
Award winning Minnesota Poet Sean Hill joins Heidi Holtan to talk about his book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor."
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 1
Since the 1994 demise of South Africa's apartheid system, photography in that country has taken on a new freedom, and a new meaning. It has evolve...
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 06:05
Artist CHRIS PURDY describes managing the Haiti Earthquake Commemorative mural in Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, FL.
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 05:51
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 54:15
one of the famous Gees Bend quilters talks about the tradition of quilting and their rise to international fame
Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Aug 29, 2008
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 1
Choreographer Judith Jamison believes being "good" includes being open, honest and true to oneself.
- Added: Mar 30, 2007
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 3
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
