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Jazz drummer and club owner, Albert Coleman, joins hosts Bev Smith and William Hosea by phone for a trip down the Avenue as he remembers the jazz s...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 57:36
Academy Award Winner, Geoffrey Fletcher sits down with Artsy Fartsy Show's Barika Taheer Edwards to chat about screenwriting and the his launch of ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2012
- Length: 17:06
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
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...
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 9
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
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
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
Langston Hughes, an enduring icon of the Harlem Renaissance, is best-known for his written work, which wedded his fierce dedication to social justi...
Bought by WVIK, WVPE, WXPR, New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 76
It was a special time for jazz in the Bay Area. For most of the ‘70s and the early ‘80s, a small club called Keystone Korner presented a dazzling a...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Step dancing has become popular among black Greek organizations and is part of a tradition that goes back to African tribal rituals. It also is a w...
- Added: Nov 07, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Charles Randolph-Wright talks about directing Lynn Nottage's play Ruined at Arena Stage.
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 29:38
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 23:45
- Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Master Ron Carter, bassist/cellist/educator extraordinaire, talks about his career playing jazz and classical music.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:22
- Purchases: 2
2010 NEA Opera Honoree and legendary soprano Martina Arroyo talks about her career in opera, including working with such luminaries as Leonard Bern...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 27:18
- Purchases: 2
Operatic tenor Everett McCorvey talks about how he was drawn into the music, how he helped build the opera program at University of Kentucky, and t...
Bought by WEKU
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 26:18
- Purchases: 1
Once known as the "Black Broadway," U Street is again a vibrant cultural place in the city, as evidenced by Arena Stage's smash production of Sophi...
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 25:58
2009 NEA National Heritage Fellows, The Birmingham Sunlights, discuss the creation of their group and their unique "Birmingham sound."
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 25:40
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
Signal contributor Baynard Woods takes us to an ‘artfully revealing’ fashion photo-shoot designed to highlight the glamour and mystique of three Af...
- Added: May 11, 2011
- Length: 13:22
A conversation with Freedom Rider and civil rights historian Earnest “Rip” Patton and German-American artist Charlotta Janssen whose depiction of F...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: May 11, 2011
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1
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 CHRIS PURDY describes managing the Haiti Earthquake Commemorative mural in Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, FL.
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 05:51
Artist BAYUNGA KIALEUKA describes painting Haiti Earthquake Commemorative mural.
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 05:39
Members of Phi Beta Sigma’s fraternity started off this year’s 34th annual Soul Food Dinner at Winona State University. The Harlem Renaissance was ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 12:21
