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Tina Turner the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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Queen of Rock 'n' Roll is a musical history of the great Tina Turner hosted by musicologist Howard Burchette.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KOSU


  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 57:17
  • Purchases: 2
The Supreme Diana Ross
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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"The Supreme Diana Ross" is a presentation hosted by Howard Burchette on the history of Diana Ross with the Supremes. They were the greatest female...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
Ebony Classics - Fascinating Rhythm
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
Caption: Lieutenant James Reese Europe, Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Lieutenant James Reese Europe" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1917.
Ebony Classics - A Classic Exposure features the music of people of color in the Classical music industry.

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 1
Ebony Classics - Classical Music In Color
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
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"Ebony Classics - Classical Music In Color" features the music of people of color in the Classical music industry.

Bought by WILL


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:50
  • Purchases: 1
Aretha Franklin Lady Soul!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Music Lecture
Caption: Aretha Now, Credit: Atlantic Catalog Group
"Lady Soul! - The Music of Aretha Franklin" is a musical view of Aretha Franklin's career with Atlantic Records.

Bought by WJCT and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 56:46
  • Purchases: 2
Women on the Waterfront
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...

Bought by KVNF and KCNP


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Adjoa Andoh from Netflix's Hit Series Offers Advice to a young BIPOC Artist
From: Anne Hoffman
Series: Off Mic from Philly Audio Diaries
Caption: Adjoa Andoh playing the fan favorite, Lady Danbury, on Netflix’s Bridgerton.
“Don’t worry about if you’re messing up as a woman or messing up, you know, as representing women of Chinese heritage or Iranian heritage or Grenad...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 19:43
Ebony Classics - A Beautiful Flower
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
Caption: Leontyne Price
This is a Classical music program featuring women of color. They are all notable Women in various fields of Classical Music; including Composers, ...

Bought by KVCR, WXXI Rochester, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 56:24
  • Purchases: 3
Part I: Niketa Calame-Harris
From: Jed Alexander
Series: "Oh! That's Who Did That Part...Huh."
Caption: Niketa Calame-Harris, Credit: Provided by Niketa Calame-Harris
My interview with actor and activist, Niketa Calame-Harris who originated the role of Young Nala in Disney's "The Lion King."

  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 16:07
Speakeasy with Denene: Black
From: Georgia Public Broadcasting
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The theme for this episode of "Speakeasy with Denene" is black.

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Nancy Wilson - This Mother's Daughter
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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Nancy Wilson - This Mother's Daughter is a special music program highlighting the greatest recordings of the great lady of Jazz and song - Nancy Wi...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KGLP, and WMOT


  • Added: Dec 30, 2018
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 3
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
Listening to Ladies: Pamela Z
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer Pamela Z lets us know what a phonolog was, how great the Museum of Jurassic Technology is (about which she co-wrote an opera), and how to ...

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
Nina Simone (Ep. 2)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Nina Simone, the "High Priestess of Soul"
In this hour, it's the life and music of Nina Simone—from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of jazz's fiercest voice...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WCPN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 38
Madame C. J. Walker
From: Brian Hawkins
Series: Heroes in Black History
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America's first African American female millionaire.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KBEM, KSKA, RadioStPete Florida, KETR-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 8
Lucy Parsons
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:33
Laura Smith Haviland
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
Fannie Lou Hamer
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Edna the Engineer: Who Gets to be a Scientist?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Susie King Taylor
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
Mamie Till
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:30
Nzingha
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
Florynce Kennedy
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:18
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
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