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After They've Served (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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No matter how they served or where or when, for veterans, returning to civilian life is a big transition.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WTJU, WCPN, KICI Iowa City, WLPR and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 17
The Jazz Phools
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Perry Bradford
When the aging jazz artist was hospitalized, his doctors thought they should get some background information on his life, and he told them that he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Henrietta Lacks' Immortal Cells
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Henrietta Lacks, Credit: Courtesy: Lacks family & Estate
David Kattenburg speaks about Henrietta Lacks and medical racism in America with Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is Professor of Law and Sociology at the ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 34:56
The Healing Place
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Cass Lake, 1908
In 2016, genealogist Mica L. Anders interviewed 7 families about their summer cabins in the north woods of Minnesota for the Minnesota Historical S...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:42
Constant Wonder - Freedom House
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Freedom House is on the way!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:48
  • Purchases: 2
Florence Price
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: Conversations in African American Music
Caption: Florence Price, Credit: Public Domain
Dr. Louise Toppin examines the life and music of trailblazing composer Florence Price.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Booktalk: National Book Award winner James McBride’s THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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James McBride’s newest book is THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them. As the s...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 10:05
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
Underground and Taboo (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Underground and Taboo (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 13
Underground and Taboo (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Underground and Taboo (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1990s, a group of single Black mothers known as The Circle formed an underground gambling ring in Danville, Virginia. Their winnings went a ...

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
NL 23-29: Paris Noir: Black American Jazz Musicians In France, 7/10/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the years following World War II, Black American jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon, Kenny Clarke, and Bud Powell took up residence in France,...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Meet the Step Artist and the Founder of Step Afrika!: C. Brian Williams
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: C. Brian Williams, Credit: Jim Saah
Step Artist and Producer and 2022 National Heritage Fellow C. Brian Williams discusses the rich cultural history of stepping and his work bringing ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Abolishing the Death Penalty (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Abolishing the Death Penalty (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Abolishing the Death Penalty (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WRMU, WFHB, WYAP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Abolishing the Death Penalty (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
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
AG 23-27: The Debonair Johnny Hartman, 7/3/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we’re celebrating the rich baritone voice of jazz singer Johnny Hartman, who would have turned 100 years old on July 3rd. We’ll explore ...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
The Empathy Tours (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

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


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Empathy Tours (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

Bought by WUTC, KVSC, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10

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