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"Colored Blues Singer" by Countee Cullen w/ Blind Willie Johnson
From: Michael Henrik Wynn
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Countee Cullen (1903-1946) was a well known African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 30s. In this video I have set a r...

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 03:06
"Black History Month Special" with Tracy K. Smith, Saeed Jones, and Meklit
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire Specials
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This Black History Month special episode features the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-so...

Bought by KUT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WLPR , WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
The Write Question - D.M. Bradford
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet and translator D.M. (Darby) Bradford discusses their sophomore collection "Bottom Rail on Top."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Beloved Blues
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 23:18
National Writers Series: Geraldine Brooks
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Anne-Marie Oomen talks with writer Geraldine Brooks.

Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Confrontation with History (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

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


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Confrontation with History (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KVSC, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, KMUN, WRMU and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
A Confrontation with History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
A Confrontation with History (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
MN Reads: "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself" by David Mura
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author David Mura talks about his new book "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself"

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 17:13
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
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
Soul Sister: The Limits of Empathy
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
The Write Question - Anthony W. Wood
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Historian Anthony W. Wood discusses his new book, "Black Montana Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930."

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Babo In the Sunshine: Herman Melville and the Tryal Rebellion
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anthony Imbert. Wrapper illustration for “Life in Philadelphia” (ca. 1829-30).
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Celebrate Juneteenth with novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Credit: Syreeta McFadden
A Conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge whose historical novel Libertie explores the possibilities and limitations for 19th century Black women.

Bought by WMPG and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Anthony Grooms
From: New Letters on the Air
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Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1