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UpFront Soul #2021.11 -March 15-21
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Betty Davis
We continue to celebrate Women's History Month with Betty Davis, Beyonce, Ana Tijoux, and Sharon Jones, plus new music from Tanika Charles. We'll c...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WOMR, WJSU, KCHW, KHNS and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12
For service members of color, fear of racism in military towns weighs heavily in career choices
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Carlandra "CT" Moss, now retired, served 24 years in the Army. As a service member of color, she said she often had to make tough decisions, weighing the best interests of her family against her military career., Credit: Anthony Bell / Fort Lee Traveller
The report from Blue Star Families found some service members are passing up career-advancing moves because they don't want to relocate to certain ...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KWMU St. Louis, KPBS and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 6
Blue Dimensions K10: Catherine Russell sings with Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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new music from singer Catherine Russell with Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra, and new music from singer and songwriter Eugenie Jo...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMUN, WJSU and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Ashleigh Gordon celebrates Black classical music.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ashleigh Gordon, Credit: Robert Torres Photography
Violist Ashleigh Gordon is the co-founder and artistic/executive director of Castle of our Skins—a music initiative in Boston that celebrates Black...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer at their StoryCorps interview in Saint Clair Shores, MI, and Sparks, NV, on Feb. 6, 2022. , Credit: By StoryCorps
Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
UpFront Soul #2022.09-March 1-7, 2022 - Women's History Month
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Mavis Staples
We'll hear the strong voices of women for Women's History Month, kicking off with Nona Hendryx and rolling on with Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples, ...

Bought by WFUV, WKMS, High Plains Public Radio, WOMR, KCHW and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 14
Brit Bennett's "THE VANISHING HALF"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Brit Bennett’s “THE VANISHING HALF”, like her first title, “The Mothers,” has been a smash hit in the world of books. ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 09:48
198: Mary McLeod Bethune
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves and a founder of Bethune-Cookman University. She was often the only woman of color with a sea...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 1
Artist Candice Davis Unearths Truth in the Soil
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Candice Davis, Artist, Credit: Sheila Regan
How does past trauma from generations ago play out in contemporary life? Artist Candice Davis creates works from clay, blood, and cloth with her ex...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 1
S06 Ep24: Women of Color: Performers, Part 5, 2/12/2022
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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Women of color are still something of an anomaly in the classical music world. This week, performances from outstanding women of color.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
S4 EP3: Authentically Me
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Internist Ashley McMullen decides to let her hair go natural for the first time in over a decade — a process which serves as a metaphor for self-ac...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 41:05
Musician's Spotlight - Ruthie Foster - 808
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Multiple Grammy Award nominee and multiple winner of several Blues Music Award Awards, singer songwriter Ruthie Foster visits with host John Florid...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:16
  • Purchases: 2
Zakiya Dalila Harris’s “The Other Black Girl”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Zakiya Dalila Harris’ debut novel, "The Other Black Girl," takes readers into the corporate world of publishing where few people of color are empl...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2021
  • Length: 09:53
EE 21-48: Earth Eats Presents the Hoosier Young Farmers Podcast, 11/26/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Hear the voices of farmers across the state talking about their farming lives and the challenges they face.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
StoryCorps: Johannah Owusu and Madzimoyo Owusu
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Johannah and Madzimoyo at their StoryCorps Recording on July 10th, 2010, in Fort Wayne, Indiana., Credit: Photo by Jorge Rios for StoryCorps.
Madzimoyo Owusu talks with her daughter, Johannah Owusu, about the memory of Madzimoyo’s grandmother.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
Open for Business
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today on The Rough Draft Diaries we talk to Dr. Shanda Gore, the principal of MBAC, Minority Business Assistance Center. A development division tha...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
Digital Black Feminism
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Dr. Catherine Knight Steele
This month, we're talking with Dr. Catherine Knight Steele, an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland - College Park. D...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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
Add Toni Stone to the Roster of Minnesota Baseball Legends
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Baseball player Toni Stone poses for a photo. , Credit: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
This fall marks the 30th anniversary of one of Minnesota’s most celebrated baseball moments: the Twins’ 1991 World Series championship. But this ye...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 1
Women on Screen (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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After new episodes drop, fans of TV shows from The Bachelor to Grey’s Anatomy take to social media to dissect what they just saw.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCNY, WRGY and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 8
Women on Screen (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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After new episodes drop, fans of TV shows from The Bachelor to Grey’s Anatomy take to social media to dissect what they just saw.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Women on Screen (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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After new episodes drop, fans of TV shows from The Bachelor to Grey’s Anatomy take to social media to dissect what they just saw.

Bought by KPBS, KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WJCT and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Women on Screen (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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After new episodes drop, fans of TV shows from The Bachelor to Grey’s Anatomy take to social media to dissect what they just saw.

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


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
70 Million: How Black Women Are Rightfully “Taking Seats at the Table”
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Alesha Monteiro, an advocate to those incarcerated, poses for a photo at the state Capitol in Sacramento, California, Credit: Sara Nevis
Nearly one in two Black women in the US have a loved one who has been impacted by our prison system. On today's episode we look at the many ways B...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Art for All
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Cydnee Moore creates artwork featuring striking lines in acrylic paint, bold colors, and stories steeped in African American heritage. She believes...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1

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