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Heritage Scraps from Heritage Hands: African-American Vintage Quilts
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
Hibaaq Ibrahim: Everyone Is A Maker
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Muralist Hibaaq Ibrahim , Credit: Zaraia Fabunmi
Hibaaq Ibrahim is a painter whose recent work includes creating murals for commercial businesses. Whether commercial or community-based projects, H...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2021
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 1
Okwui Okpokwasili: Visibility for the Invisible, Centering Black Women's Experiences in Performance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can dance and song offer insight into a person’s experience, and provoke curiosity, even empathy across national identity, race and gender? In this...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Theater Artist Kim Hines Authors Novella for Young Adults
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Kim Hines, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Kim Hines
Kim Hines’ Young Adult Novella Wingo Fly (2020) revolves around Christy Wingo, a 10 year old Black girl in 1965 Minneapolis, Minnesota. The book is...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 1
Okwui Okpokwasili: Body Power, Racism and Gender Politics Through Performance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura interviews MacArthur Genius Award winning choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili about her groundbreaking experimental work to comm...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Art of The Cut - Part 1
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, as we finish out the rest of the February and the rest of Black History Month, we're headed into a sacred spa...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 06:16
Charles Neville: "Loving Kindness is My Religion"
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Saxophonist Charles Neville
Saxophonist Charles Neville was born into one of New Orleans' most famous musical families, and enjoyed a career spanning more than 60 years before...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Dec 14, 2017
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Michael White and His Mighty Clarinet
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Dr. Michael White, Credit: Derek Bridges
To Dr. Michael White, it's not just a clarinet, but a time machine. “I listened to Johnny Dodds’ recordings. I listened to Sidney Bechet. I listen...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 52:12
  • Purchases: 1
Yarn Bomb street artist Lauryn Byrd
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I've heard it called 'fabric graffiti.' I don't know if it's necessarily allowed or not, but I'm not going to ask.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Master Moments with Organist, Dr. Lonnie Smith
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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In these moments, we learn about the (soulful) power of the organ, especially in the hands of Dr. Lonnie Smith.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 12
Oh Freedom! #2016.01 - Ashley Bryan
From: Susan Dickson-Smith
Series: Oh Freedom!
Caption: Ashley Bryan
Author and illustrator Ashley Bryan talks about his new book, “Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life,” his experie...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pittsburgh-based sculptor Thaddeus Mosley
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
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Pittsburgh-based sculptor Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926) reflects on his life and art based on interviews conducted by teens Martay Howard and Wyatt Wad...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:15
Waking Up: A short play by Cori Thomas
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Lynette Freeman
A perfect choice for Breast Cancer Awareness month is Waking Up by Cori Thomas. It juxtaposes the experiences of an American urbanite's and an Afri...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 18:02
Bay Area Beats: Zena
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats
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Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
Full Moon Hacksaw #1449 11-06-14 (Hours 1 & 2)
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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November the party is on! Exclaims our vocalist of the hour(s) Luciana Souza. Cedar Walton also appears both as pianist and composer, aiding Art Bl...

Bought by WYAP and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 2
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
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
PPW - Indiana: Etheridge Knight
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: Etheridge Knight
We travel to Indianapolis, IN to explore the story of literary great Etheridge Knight, who published his first book, the soulful 1968 masterpiece ...

Bought by WWNO, WLPR , and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:09
  • Purchases: 3
Milt Hinton
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Milt Hinton
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe discusses the significance of Hinton’s life, his work and his perspective, and offers a view of what his l...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Christian McBride
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"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
The Beat: Sean Hill - "Postcard To Eduardo"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:54
KUT's Views and Brews: Charles Mingus and The Art of Enigma
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
Caption: Charles Mingus
Join us for lively discussion and great live music as KUT's Rebecca McInroy and rabbi Neil Blumofe take a look back at the life and artistry of the...

Bought by Radio Catskill and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Affrilachian Poets
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...

Bought by WJCT, WMMT, KUER, KRZA, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 9
Sean Hill: Blood Ties and Brown Liquor
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Sean Hill
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
A Conversation with Robert Battle.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Robert Battle discusses his first season as artistic head of the Alvin Ailey company. [33:04]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 33:04
  • Purchases: 1
Gail & Emile
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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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