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Zora Neale Hurston
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
Caption: Zora Neale Hurston
Zora was one of the shining lights of the Harlem Renaissance as a writer of novels, short stories, essays, articles, plays, folklore collections, a...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:21
Standing Room Only - Black History Month: Black Women in History & Culture
From: WFHB
Series: Standing Room Only
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On Thursday, February 2nd, Bloomington kicked off Black History Month with a celebration in the City Hall Council Chambers. This year's theme "Blac...

Bought by WWFM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:26
  • Purchases: 1
Black Women Make History/ Coretta Scott King & Carol Moseley Braun
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Coretta Scott King, Credit: NNDB
Equal Time Series Host Martha Burk explores the life of Coretta Scott King with biographer Barbara Reynolds, a founding editor of USA Today. Burk...

Bought by Talking Information Center, KRPS, 90.5 WSNC, WAMU, and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 56:48
  • Purchases: 5
"Mother Tongue: Monologues from The Middle Passage to Today's Justice Movement"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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The Mother Tongue Monologues present Black women telling it like it is, with all its' truths, brazen acts, shouts and silent revolutions, from slav...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KZYX, WOMR, WJSU, and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 5
Following Harriet Tubman
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's News Features
Caption: The Bucktown Village Store where Harriet Tubman received a head injury that would impact her entire life, Credit: courtesy of Andrew Hiller
This feature explores the life and some of the myths of Harriet Tubman with interviews by experts from Cambridge, MD, the town where "Moses" was bo...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 3
Carmen's Grandmother
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c.2000
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nu...

Bought by KUT, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 3
Interracial Marriage
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A comparative generational discussion about interracial marriage

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Sep 22, 2010
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
Odetta: The Queen of American Folk Music
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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This 55 min piece features excerpts from a Feb.24th tribute to folk singer Odetta at the Riverside Church in NYC. Performing artists include Pete S...

Bought by KMUW, Prairie Public, WSLR, Marfa Public Radio, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2009
  • Length: 55:21
  • Purchases: 6
WNYC's Fishko Files: Hazel Scott as Herself
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Fishko Files
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Rediscovering a musician's career

Bought by The WFMT Radio Network


  • Added: Feb 17, 2009
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Sufiya Abdur-Rahman
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Sufiya Abdur-Rahman believes being black is beautiful and not a condition she has to rise above.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: Sep 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -7a: Lynching's End?: A Texas Whydunnit Murder Mystery (1930)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
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Mob madness leads to a pivotal feminist protest during the dark days of Jim Crow racism.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KUER, WCPN, KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
The Real Story of Rosa Parks
From: Caroline Harding
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Rosa Parks and the vital role of women in the civil rights movement

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2008
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 5
Program 20: Journey's End
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy Turner was proud of her heritage and understood the value of her family tradition. This is the concluding program in the series, Journey's End.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 2
Program 19: Alec Turner's Funeral
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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At the time of Alec Turner's death in 1923, Journey's End had been his home for 50 years.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Program 18: Daisy's Near Marriage
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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At 40 Daisy became engaged to Joseph Bonet. When he later broke off the engagement, Daisy sued him--and won!

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
Program 17: A New Year's Recitation
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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By the turn of the century the Turner household had become a kind of community social center. This program explores the texture of these gatherings.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KGOU, PRX to iTunes, and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 4
Program 16: Daisy's Premonition
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy and her father were so close that she felt they could communicate psychically. This program details such an event.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 2
Program 15: Daisy Turner Goes to Market
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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When a Boston market owner attempts to cheat her father, Daisy travels to Boston to confront him.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 2
Program 14: Daisy's Black Doll
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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As a girl, Daisy Turner faces discrimination at school and confronts it directly--with poetry.

Bought by KZYX, PRX to iTunes, and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 3
Program 13: How Daisy's Sister Shot the Bull
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy suffered from rickets as a child and during her younger years was unable to walk. At a young age she heard prayers, recitations, hymns, and s...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
Program 12: Alec Turner, the Strong Man
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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In this episode Alec Turner accepts a challenge and performs a dramatic feat of strength.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
Program 11: Coming to Vermont
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Alec Turner and his wife, Sally settle in Vermont on the farm he called Journey's End.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
Program 10: The Slate Quarry
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Alec and Sally Turner lived for a time in Williamsburg, Maine, as members of a colony of freed slaves who worked in the Merrill slate quarry there.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 2
Program 09: Marriage and Near-Disaster at Sea
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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After the Civil War ended, Alec worked helping freed slaves find jobs off the plantations. During this time he met his future wife, Sally Early, th...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 2