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The "Juke In The Back" is proud to focus an entire show on the separate careers of bother and sister, Nellie and Joe Lutcher. Both scored numerous...
- Added: Aug 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Ruth Brown was Atlantic Records first big star. She was so successful, racking up 24 R&B hits for the fledging label, that Atlantic was often calle...
- Added: Aug 02, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 8
Ruth Brown was Atlantic Records first big star. She was so successful, racking up 24 R&B hits for the fledging label, that Atlantic was often calle...
- Added: Jul 26, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
Ruth Brown was Atlantic Records first big star. She was so successful, racking up 24 R&B hits for the fledging label, that Atlantic was often calle...
- Added: Jul 19, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
Ruth Brown was Atlantic Records first big star. She was so successful, racking up 24 R&B hits for the fledging label, that Atlantic was often calle...
- Added: Jul 12, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
- Added: Jun 22, 2015
- Length: 18:27
- Purchases: 1
Bessie Coleman was the first female African-American pilot
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 2
Almost 17 percent of the babies born here in Dunklin County are born premature. According to data from the World Health Organization, if this were ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:10
The pre-Rock n' Roll era is full of unsung performers who's style directly impacted those who came after. This week's "Juke In The Back" spotlight ...
- Added: May 31, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
Human trafficking is estimated to be in the millions--yet only a fraction of it is reported. And taxpayers spend $60,000 per person, per year on in...
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 4
Radio Curious visits with Lacey Schwartz, director and producer of “Little White Lie,” a documentary about her experiences growing up as a white Je...
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 29:01
This week, the "Juke In The Back" solutes the Unsung Ladies of R&B! We'll dig deep into a stack of shellac from some women you know, like Varetta D...
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 4
Many families with LGBTQ members across generations are personally familiar with the “coming out” conversation.
Deidra Robinson and her father, Wi...
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 02:02
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Nick Broomfield talks respect, unsung heroes, and letting someone else drive.
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 22:41
This Poetry Month: We celebrate the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, wo...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 7
This Poetry Month, we honor the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanho...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 6
We'll bring you danceable anthems from Diana Ross and Donna Summer, poet Nikki Giovanni's ode to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, and gospel fro...
Bought by KAAD-LP, KPIP-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, and KMXT
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 01:57:59
- Purchases: 4
We bring you the sounds of soulful sisterhood as we celebrate Women's History Month. We'll get out on the dance floor with Chaka Khan and Gloria Ga...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 3
An hour-long program of classic jazz: An exploration of the path of Melba Liston as she became an arranger/composer and an instrumentalist in the j...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KMUW and more
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 8
Novelist Tayari Jones is one writer who loves writng.
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
We celebrate Women's History Month with the iconic voices of Aretha Franklin and Eartha Kitt, pioneering instrumentalists like Bobbi Humphrey, and ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 01:57:59
- Purchases: 3
Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
Short Description: We honor the life of the playwright and American Book Award-winning fiction writer J. California Cooper, who passed away Septemb...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
First, from her childhood growing up in South Chicago to her career as a journalist and network news commentator, Ethel Lois Payne, is one of the m...
Bought by Classic107.3, Harford Community Radio, and WCWP
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 3
