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StoryCorps Military Voices: Estel Roberts, Mariann Roberts, William Pickens, Benjamin Jenkins, Candice Francis and Sidney Francis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Sidney Francis and Candice Francis at their StoryCorps interview in New York, New York on November 29, 2005., Credit: Justina Mejias for StoryCorps
Sidney Francis and his daughter, Candice Francis, reflect on his time as one of the first Black Marines to serve at Montford Point during World War...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Shirley Duhart and Dale Strasser
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Shirley Duhart and Dale Strasser at their StoryCorps in Atlanta, Georgia on January 17, 2023
Polio survivor Shirley Duhart tells her longtime friend and doctor, Dale Strasser, about why wearing stylish shoes has been so empowering.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Dr. Thomas in his lab., Credit: Public Domain
Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris remember their mentor, Dr. Vivien Thomas, a surgical researcher who developed groundbreaking medical techniques.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
Ep. 450: Kevin Young, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Clyde W. Ford, and Amythyst Kiah, 2/26/2021
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Amythyst Kiah
In celebration of Black History Month, this episode features poet Kevin Young, groundbreaking Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, writer and historian...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
"Black History Month Special" with Kevin Young, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Clyde W. Ford, and Amthyst Kiah
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire Specials
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In celebration of Black History Month, this special episode features poet Kevin Young, groundbreaking Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, writer and h...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
151: G. A. Morgan and the Traffic Light
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Traffic lights, a hair relaxant, gas masks, the zig-zag stitch on sewing machines...all of these important inventions have one thing in common, Gar...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 05:57
50 Years of In Black America with John L. Hanson Jr.
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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For 50 years the nationally syndicated radio show, In Black America has given voice to people of color in America, and John L. Hanson Jr. has hoste...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 34:07
Ellis Marsalis: Jazz Patriarch
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Ellis Marsalis, Credit: Snug Harbor
Ellis Marsalis joins Gwen Thompkins for a wide-ranging talk about his life in music - from modern jazz pianist, to jazz educator, to father of four...

  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 51:58
National Writers Series: Greg Iles
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Author Greg Iles talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
John Brown and Harper's Ferry
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious takes a tour of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, a historic national park and site of the civil war struggles between union and confede...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
Episode 59: In Plain Sight
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: “We should look in vain through the most trying times of our revolutionary history for a...

Bought by WFAE


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:37
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 56: Don't Let Me See You In The Whirl
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Since 1938, a weekly African-American owned newspaper called The Evening Whirl has covered crime in St. Louis with a style all its own, using allit...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 16:14
Maya Angelou on Con Men
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you’re greedy, you’re set up." - Maya Angelou, as told to Studs Terkel in ...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and WABE


  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 4
The Dave Holland Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Bassist Dave Holland started his performing career in London. One night, he received word that a visiting musician from the states wanted to hire ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:46
Florida Folk and the Tales They Do
From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Audio Storytelling
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Phyllis McEwen and Bob Devin-Jones bring to life African-American folktales and songs that Zora Neale Hurston collected in Florida in the 1930s.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 39:38
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz-O-Rama #20: "Kansas City Swing"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
Caption: Joe Bev hosts an hour of Kansas City swing 78s., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
"Cherokee", "One O'clock Jump" and "Kansas City Farewell" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 20th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 3
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 22
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
Caption: http://www.bobbyseale.com/, Credit: Bobby Seale
Art and Entertainment news that you want to know!!! Featuring Civil Rights leader Bobby Seale and Country Star Doug Briney.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
The Missourians
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Missourians
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Clarence Williams
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Clarence Williams
Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
Bob Marley - Marley
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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The official radio companion to the MARLEY documentary film in theatres and homes on April 20, 2012.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KPSQ-LP, Prairie Public, WNMU-FM, KMUW and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12