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We don'y just plant the seeds so we can eat the fruit. We plant the seeds so the fruit will be there for generations.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 1
What will be the cultural impact of the new Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art when the exhibition premieres in 2021? Follow us to Louisiana,...
- Added: Aug 25, 2019
- Length: 51:28
How do contemporary art and film illuminate the Black Imagination? This segment from our archive explores some of the issues and ideas behind creat...
- Added: Aug 05, 2019
- Length: 57:35
Artist Charles Gaines has been delving into philosophy, abstraction and mathematics to address politics and race since the 1970s. In August 2019, G...
- Added: Jul 29, 2019
- Length: 19:29
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're talking to artist, Aaron Bivins. We'll talk about his art, football career, and why he is often not reco...
- Added: Jul 15, 2019
- Length: 06:14
Black History Month kicks off at KVSC with the Untold Story of Central Minnesota take on Langston Hughes.
Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff C...
- Added: Jun 10, 2019
- Length: 30:49
The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC along with consulting curator Philip Brookman have produced a retrospective exhibit spotlighting the e...
- Added: Apr 18, 2019
- Length: 05:01
As a kid, Joy Dolo was shy. Now she's an actor, a member of the comedy troupe Blackout Improv and a podcaster. KFAI's Dixie Treichel produced this ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2019
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
According to Ytasha Womack, use of the imagination for self-development and social change is one of the greatest tenets of Afrofuturism. This show ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Feb 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Art with a Sense of Place considers creative projects that respond to a physical space and those that react to or embrace a historic moment, a cult...
- Added: Feb 04, 2019
- Length: 58:47
According to the mythology of the Yoruba Tribe of Nigeria, the creation or the making of the earth was a collaborative effort between Olorun and or...
- Added: Feb 01, 2019
- Length: 01:54
Owen Husney isn't famous. Few rock managers are. In his new book—Famous People Who’ve Met Me—Husney tells all about the Stones, Joplin, Hendrix and...
- Added: Jan 24, 2019
- Length: 05:29
After he died, John Glanton's photo negatives were forgotten. But then a relative unearthed those images from a trash bag in a garage. The result: ...
Bought by KBEM
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
Designing Nimbus—a giant, donut-shaped sculpture for Nicollet Mall—was just the beginning. Artist Tristan Al-Haddad also needed a talented crew to ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2018
- Length: 04:21
Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Amer...
Bought by WCNY, WJAB, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2018
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 8
-Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Ame...
Bought by WJCT, WSGE, Harford Community Radio, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2018
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 10
Robin Barnes was born and raised in the Lower 9th Ward, shuttling between her parents’ and grandparents’ houses and singing the songs they liked to...
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 52:00
2018 National Heritage Fellow Marion Coleman tells stories through her quilts.
Bought by Bandon Community Radio and WJAB
- Added: Oct 23, 2018
- Length: 27:33
- Purchases: 2
We meet Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford—known for connecting art with the real world—when he represents the United States in the 57th Venice...
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 09:01
What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights an...
Bought by Interlochen Public Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 56:29
- Purchases: 1
Somalia is known as a nation of poets. In this episode, we explore Somali spoken word poetry with Nimo Farah, Ahmed Assad, Ayan Mahamud and Ladan O...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Sep 03, 2018
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Trinidad-born photographer Johanne Rahaman shares hope for a better world in her Black Florida project—a modern archive of images that tell the sto...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 15:55
The BLCK Family, a Miami-based creative collective, fosters opportunities for individual artists to share their original music and poetry in intima...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 11:51
Sam Bailey is a writer, actor and filmmaker. Her credits include the Tribeca Film Festival recognized and Gotham Award. Produced by Alex Kime.
- Added: Jul 15, 2018
- Length: 18:50
Andrew Moore’s front yard used to host an enormous political art installation. His front yard installation was steeped in political turmoil and sho...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 15:25
- Purchases: 1
