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Caption: Max and Kendrick at Goodwill
Max and Kendrick host Tasty Wednesday and visit Portage Bay Cafe in the University District. Meron Fikru shares a story about the double standards ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 14:21
Caption: Justin Simien, San Francisco, CA 10/17/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Justin Simien talks satire, social mirrors, and the truth of life.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:56
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Vacation in quaint Ferguson, MO—come for the human rights violations, stay for the rubber bullets!

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
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Like Fox News, but wish it was more reactionary, racist, and condescending? Then check out Rupert Murdoch’s newest network: Redd Foxx News.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:20
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In the first portion we're Jumping for something, then checking out blues playing and composing of bassist Ray Brown. Vocalists continue from Jane...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Cheri Lindsay talks with her father, Phillip, about vitiligo, a rare skin condition they share...

Bought by WEZU, WMUU-LP, and KMUD


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 3
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First, journalist Willie Geist has had an especially unique relationship with his father, Bill Geist. They discuss many cherished memories in their...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Audra McDonald, Credit: Autumn de Wilde
Aidan Quinn, Audra McDonald and Tonya Pinkins star in shorts by John Patrick Shanley (Oscar, Pulitzer, Tony winner) and Lynn Nottage (Pulitzer Priz...

Bought by KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Clayton Sherrod looks back to 1964, when at 19 years old he became executive chef at an all--white country club in Birmingham, Alabama.

Bought by WDBM, WMUU-LP, WEZU, and KMUD


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 4
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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
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Here’s another look at the extraordinary talents of Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller, with more humorous stories from behind the scenes.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Remastered Fats Waller 78s on Jazz-O-Rama, Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
The sounds of classic remastered 78 RPM records fill the air when the music of Fats Waller is presented on the 30th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Ram...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:27
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Leesa Dean (right), Credit: Adrien De Martini
Bobby speaks with, writer and animator, Leesa Dean about her three fully developed animated series – Chilltown, The Danger Squad and Lele’s Ratchet...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2013
  • Length: 55:22
Caption: Joyce Scott, Credit: Goya Contemporary
In Baltimore, Joyce Scott, a venerated visual and performing artist talks with Cathy Byrd about the art scene in Baltimore, her hometown, and descr...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 12:25
Caption: Mr. Badey's "glory days", Credit: ESPN
The band is finally back together! After a year and a half of hating each other, friends Rob Piccirillo "Bobby Pickles", David Bader "Mr. Badey" an...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
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This episode we speak with scholar, Lisa Castillo, PhD. Her interest is Afro-Brazilian culture. More specifically, the African diaspora of Brazil. ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 28:01
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One block from my apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Raz...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Story, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 4
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One block from my apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Raz...

Bought by WABE, KALW, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 4
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Winner of "Last Comic Standing", Alonzo Bodden talks.. Sex... Politics ... Religion .. and more in a funny 5. Listen and LAUGH!

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
Caption: Poet Camara Brown
Poet Camara Brown, 16, is a junior at Oak Park and River Forest High School. This is her first year participating in Louder Than a Bomb. Her piece...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
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Comedian Darryl Littleton...wrote the book on "Black Comedians on Black Comedy". If you're a Bigot, you won't like the next 5 minutes.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
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You've seen him on "The Tonight Show", now comic Saleem joins us on the Lawn

  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:15
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Andrea McKnight and her husband, Jay, remember meeting as teenagers in the 1950s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Charlie and Donna In The Kitchen At Donna's
An internationally acclaimed jazz bar in New Orleans where the entertainment on the musical stage was often rivaled by the entertainment behind the...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 12:53
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Are African-American parents that choose unique or African-sounding names putting their children at a disadvantage? Is society unduly prejudiced ag...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 10:22
  • Purchases: 1