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Escaping The Narcissism of The American Dream
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Tiffanie Drayton, Credit: © Marcus Duncan 2021
Next, a conversation with Tiffanie Drayton, author of the new book Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of The American Dream. Drayton e...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KVSC


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Harold Lucas, Jr., D'Lorah Butts-Lucas, and Darryll Lucas
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: D’Lorah Butts-Lucas, Harold Lucas, Jr. and Darryll Lucas at their StoryCorps interview in Daytona Beach, Florida on March 21, 2022., Credit: Jarrod Sport for StoryCorps.
Harold Lucas, Jr. sits down with his daughter, D’Lorah Butts-Lucas, to remember seeing Jackie Robinson train to become the first Black player in M...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
Newton's Annotator (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WRGY and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7
Newton's Annotator (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by KMUN, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Newton's Annotator (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Newton's Annotator (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Kingsley Tufts Award-winning Poet Patricia Smith: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Patricia Smith, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the 2018 winner of the coveted Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, is now the 2021 Ruth...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Homecoming (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The first federally registered Black neighborhood in the United States was Jackson Ward, a once-booming economic and residential district in Richmo...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
Homecoming (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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The first federally registered Black neighborhood in the United States was Jackson Ward, a once-booming economic and residential district in Richmo...

Bought by KRVS, WKSU, Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
Homecoming (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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The first federally registered Black neighborhood in the United States was Jackson Ward, a once-booming economic and residential district in Richmo...

Bought by WXDU, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Homecoming (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The first federally registered Black neighborhood in the United States was Jackson Ward, a once-booming economic and residential district in Richmo...

Bought by WKSU, Georgia Public Broadcasting, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
NL 22-09: Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington's Early Black Pride Music, 2/21/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, there was the music of Duke Ellington . Born and raised in Washington, D.C. at the t...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
Born in Blackness part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard W. French, Credit: Guardian
It’s just possible that our understanding of history is seen through a distorted lens. We think we know how the modern world was made. But, keep in...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
REPLAY American Terrorism (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and WMMT


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
REPLAY American Terrorism (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by KUAT, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
REPLAY American Terrorism (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
REPLAY American Terrorism (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by KUAT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Single Hour Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Mavis Staples
A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...

Bought by WJCT, KUHF, WABE, WVIA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 25
Tamara Payne on Les Payne’s THE DEAD ARE ARISING (Re-Broadcast)
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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For Black History Month, we air our conversation with Tamara Payne about her late father Les Payne’s acclaimed biography of Malcolm X, The Dead Are...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 58:42
Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Hour 2 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Mavis Staples, Credit: Michael Ochs Archives
Hour 2 of a music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 194...

Bought by KRVS, WDDE, WVIA, WPVM 103.7, WILL and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #145 - Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Hour 2 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Mavis Staples
Hour 2 of a music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 194...

Bought by KFSK, KNCT FM, Capital Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Born in Blackness
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard W. French
Most of us know very little about the history of the African American. Their contribution to our culture and society is rich and multilayered that...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Swing It Loud: Duke Ellington’s Early Black-Pride Music
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, Ellington was writing music that celebrated African-American culture, personalities,...

Bought by WJCT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTXK and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Jackie Robinson
Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus, and others.

Bought by WLRH, KRCU Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
We Shall Overcome: Civil-Rights Jazz
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Black History Special A one-hour program of jazz music, exploring the connection between jazz and civil rights in 20th-century America.

Bought by KALW, WLRH, Morehead State Public Radio, KLCC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16

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