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Full Moon Hacksaw # 1505 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12/03/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Atonal modes are heard by Wayne Shorter and Bobby Hutcherson a couple decades apart. Out of a dream with Tamir Hendelman then west coast jazz, Bill...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WOUB


  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 4
Director and playwright Tazewell Thompson: Bringing it to the stage.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Soloman Howard as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the company of Appomattox at Washington National Opera , Credit: Scott Suchman
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
Allan Wolper talks with Gregory Pardlo
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Gregory Pardlo, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, debunks the theory that African American fathers are disinterested parents. Pardl...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 1
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
Richard Hunt--One of the giants of American sculpture.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Richard Hunt in his studio, Credit: Tom McCormick
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
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 # 1492 (Hour 1 & 2) - 09/03/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Meat & potatoes Les McCann & Houston Person begin our journey up and down hills & valleys, then along the Long Yellow Road with Toshiko & Tabackin....

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, KPVL, WYAP and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 6
Poet and Playwright Claudia Rankine has us board the bus for the Bronx
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WNJR, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Help Wanted: Poet Wanted
From: Marita Murphy
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The Poet Laureate of Belfast Maine is trying to make a difference in his community -- one poem at a time.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1482 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06/25/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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The adventure continues with material we doubt ever re-released on CD like Bobby Hutcherson. It meanders thru a couple hits from Phoebe Snow and An...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, WOUB, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 4
Help Wanted: Poet Wanted
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The Poet Laureate of Belfast Maine is trying to make a difference in his community—one poem at a time.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
The Spiritual Edge: Afro-Cuban movement with meaning
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Spiritual Edge
Caption: Dancers at Dance Mission Theater, Credit: Thomas Levy
Some people who take dance classes regularly have a saying: “Dance is my church.” Dancer Stella Adelman says just that about going to Afro-Cuban f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:26
  • Purchases: 1
Oree Originol: An artist honors black and brown lives
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Artist OREE ORIGINOL's artwork on display on the corner of 24th and Byrant in the Mission., Credit: Todd Whitney
If you have walked the streets of the Bay Area recently -- you might have seen posters featuring the names and faces of Oscar Grant, Renisha McBrid...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
"The Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue" Live From The Schomburg Center
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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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
Fresh Talk: Tameka Norris
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Tameka Norris, Credit: courtesy Tameka Norris
Tameka Norris talks about her first feature-length film—she plays a version of herself in Meka Jean: How She Got Good. The film debuted during Pros...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 12:07
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1468 (Hour 1 & 2) - 03/19/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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With Kenny Burrell interpreting Duke Ellington, artistry can do no wrong. Blues of southwest and midwest inspiration include Gerald Wilson. Jazz ...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KPVL, WYAP, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:53
  • Purchases: 4
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1467 (Hour 1 & 2) - 03/12/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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A blistering Lee Morgan on trumpet sets the ambiance for singers Leah Natale, Cecile Hortensia and Mark Murphy, rhythm makers could be Charles Lewi...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, WOUB, and KVRZ


  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 4
A Community Conversation About Trial by Mob - The Duluth Lynchings by Michael Fedo
From: KVSC
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The 1920 lynching of three young black men in Duluth is a tragic part of Minnesota's history. On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, in the Atwood Memori...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:02:22
  • Purchases: 1
Trial by Mob - The Duluth Lynchings by Michael Fedo Part 2
From: KVSC
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KVSC Radio at St. Cloud State University presents Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings. On the evening of June 15, 1920, a crowd of thousands attacke...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Trail by Mob - The Duluth Lynchings by Michael Fedo Part 1
From: KVSC
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KVSC Radio at St. Cloud State University presents Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings. On the evening of June 15, 1920, a crowd of thousands attack...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Filmmaker Sam Pollard celebrates August Wilson.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" Playbill., Credit: Photofest, Inc.
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
Black Theater, Black Lives
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bernadine Mitchell in Bessie's Blues, wirtten and directed by Thomas W. Jones II, Credit: Courtesy of Metro Stage
Writer, director, and actor, Thomas W. Jones II makes sense of the world through theater

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Power of African-American Art
From: Al Letson
Series: State of the Re:Union: Season Five
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State of the Re:Union has made it an annual tradition to commemorate Black History Month with a special episode exploring lesser known corners of A...

Bought by KUAT, KWMU St. Louis, WAMU, High Plains Public Radio, Classic107.3 and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 46
Telling Black History with needle and thread, National Heritage Fellow Carolyn Mazloomi
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Carolyn Mazloomi, Credit: Gale Zucker
Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African American community through narrative quilts.

Bought by KDNK, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Painter: Ta-Coumbe Aiken
From: WDSE
Series: Radio Gallery
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A leader in community engagement, murals and public arts, St. Paul painter Ta-Coumba Aiken is our guest on Radio Gallery this week.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1

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