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Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 12: Sisserieta Jones
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Angela introduces Sisserieta Jones, and American soprano sometimes known as "Black Patti." She was one of the first black performe...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 11: H. Leslie Adams
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to H. Leslie Adams, a world renowned American composer, best known for vocally-centric modalities such as ope...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 10: Stacey V. Gibbs
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to Stacey V. Gibbs, a renowned composer and arranger whose specialty is infusing new energy into familiar wor...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 09: Samuel Coleridge Taylor
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Joshua introduces us to Samuel Coleridge Taylor, whose brief but prolific career left an indelible mark on classical music. The pi...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 08: Richard Danielpour
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to composer Richard Danielpour, who has created notable works in conjunction with literary powerhouses Toni M...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 07: Thomas Wiggins
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Joshua introduces us to the virtuosic Thomas "blind Tom" Wiggins. Born a slave, Blind Tom was an amazingly talented American music...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 06: Undine Smith Moore
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to Undine Smith Moore, the "dean of black women composers." Moore was a prolific and talented composer and ar...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 05: George Walker
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Joshua introduces us to composer and educator, George Walker. Known for his wide musical vocabulary, Walker is a pulitzer winning ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 04: Evelyn Simpson Curenton
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Angela introduces us to the composer and multi-intrumentalist Evelyn Simpson Curenton, and we hear an excerpt of her work, "O'Glory."

Bought by WNMU-FM and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 02: Moses Hogan
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Angela introduces Moses Hogan, a 20th century American composer noted for his arrangements of spirituals.

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 03: Robert Nathaniel Dett
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Joshua introduces Robert Nathaniel Dett and his piece "Honey" from his "In the Bottoms" Suite. The piece evokes scenes and moods o...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Melanated Moments In Classical Music Ep 01: William Grant Still
From: Michael Toulouse
Series: Melanated Moments In Classical Music
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On this episode, Joshua introduces William Grant Still, the "dean of black music." We hear an excerpt of Still's work "Ringplay," on piano.

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Revisiting the Little Rock Nine experience with Ernest Green
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Little Rock Memorial , Credit: Steve Snodgrass under CreativeCommons license 2.0
This episode focuses on the social impact of Ernest Green’s life journey—a different type of travel experience--and his role in the civil rights mo...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 37:07
Episode Three: Aftermath
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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Kentuckians fought on both sides of the Civil War but came together at war’s end to oppose a common foe—newly emancipated African Americans yearnin...

Bought by KRSC, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 22
Episode Two: Recovering History
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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Due to prohibitions against enslaved people learning to read and write, there are only a few written records left behind by formerly enslaved Kentu...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, WKMS and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 22
National Writers Series: David Blight and Miles Harvey
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Interviews with authors David Blight and Miles Harvey.

Bought by WCMU Michigan and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Uncomfortable Truth About Race in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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“The Uncomfortable Truth” is a film produced by Loki Mulholland. It is a journey to understand how being white has benefited his family across gene...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KMUN, KOWS, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 50:07
  • Purchases: 5
The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America, Demo
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 9
Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The United States of America v. Billie Holiday
From: Drew Darling
Series: Adagio
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A look into Billie Holiday's last year, and those whose mission it was to silence her.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Speaking the Language of White America: Violence and the End of Slavery
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her book, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Kellie Carter Jackson contends that the history of abolitionism, ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
97: The 6888th All WOC Postal Battalion
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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On Feb 3rd, 1945, The all women of color, Six-Triple-Eight, was sent overseas to clear a two year backlog of mail. They were told it would take six...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
Free Brooklyn
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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In 1965, two intellectuals met at Cambridge University for a debate. The topic: “The American dream is at the expense of the American Negro.” The r...

Bought by KVSC, KRZA, and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Uncivil War on Richmond's Monument Avenue
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Protesters and counter protesters, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 26:39