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Vance Gilbert - AOTS 20 Years
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW #978 (Air Dates: Sept 25 - Oct 1, 2023) For Art of the Song's 20th anniversary, we revisit our 2013 interview with Vance Gilbert. During the l...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM, WETS, KRZA, WHRV, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
S08 Ep04: Women of Color: Composers, Part 6, 9/23/2023
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week, works by women of color from the early 20th century to today.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:29
UpFront Soul #2023.36 September 4-11, 2023
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We'll celebrate the 60th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with music from Mahalia Jackson, the SNCC Freedom Singers...

Bought by KMUN, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Prairie Public, KAAD-LP, KZUM and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 13
The Success of Guaranteed Income: Cash Relief for Black Moms (August 30, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This year, Mother’s Day, May 14th coincides with the formal end of the National Covid-19 Emergency. Poor parents will be taking a hit — but Guarant...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR, WNYE and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Nikara Warren
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 971 (Air Dates: Aug 7 - 13, 2023) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is vibraphonist, composer, educator Nikara Warren. Born and bred in B...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, High Plains Public Radio, WCUW 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
813: In Search Of Real Food / 814: Telling A Life, 7/22/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "In Search Of Real Food" - Supermarkets are designed to make you think you have a lot of choices. But do you? This hour, reclaiming real ...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
Program 3: Spirituals and Music Influenced by Spirituals
From: KCME
Series: Choral Splendour
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This program celebrates the rich history of the spiritual in choral music. We'll hear arrangements of traditional spirituals, and a powerful work c...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 1
This Is My Home: Women whup petrochemical giant
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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The story of 2 successful battles against petrochemical pollution on the Gulf coast.

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
WoodSongs 1037: Black Opry
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The Kentucky Gentlemen on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Black Opry founder Holly G plus The Kentucky Gentlemen, Jett Holden, R...

Bought by Radio Bristol, KMSU, WLPR , WVRU, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 60
Musician's Spotlight - Melody Angel - 843
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Chicago based blues singer and guitarist Melody Angel joins host John Floridis to talk about her career, her blues pedigree (cousin of the iconic m...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 2
13-17: Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy As Unequal As Our Economy?, 7/5/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Heather McGhee, Credit: Hardy Wilson
By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a ra...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Let's Hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jericho Brown, Credit: Brian Cornelius
Jericho Brown reads and discusses his work, his creative process, and Black queer poetry’s capacity to expand concepts of love

Bought by WMPG, WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
EP225 Howard and the White Boys
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A top-notch respected and loved Chicago band that has been established since 1988

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
Kemp Harris
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 963 (Air Dates: June 12 - 18, 2023) This week on Art of the Song we talk with Kemp Harris. This Boston based and beloved artist is one of the ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUNM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Chicago Rarities
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lovie Austin
When the New Orleans community of Storyville was shuttered in 1917, musicians began traveling north to find work. No one could have been prepared f...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
EP224 Eric Bibb
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Eric Bibb's musical career spans 50 years. His 2023 Album "Ridin' " is a collection of great words for our world today.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 1
Cash Relief for Black Moms: The Success of Guaranteed Income
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This Mother’s Day, May 14th coincides with the formal end of the National Covid-19 Emergency. Poor parents will be taking a hit — but Guaranteed In...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Satchmo & Duke
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Armstrong & Ellington
They could not have been more opposite in their approach to jazz. Yet, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington had identical goals. Provide the best mus...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Belafonte-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: RCA Victor LP, Credit: 1955
A tribute to Harry Belafonte with music from his incredible career mixed with his own thoughts about his life and work

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
StoryCorps: Shirley Duhart and Dale Strasser
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Shirley Duhart and Dale Strasser at their StoryCorps in Atlanta, Georgia on January 17, 2023
Polio survivor Shirley Duhart tells her longtime friend and doctor, Dale Strasser, about why wearing stylish shoes has been so empowering.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
EP223 Lightnin' Slim
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Otis Hicks was a somewhat unsung Louisiana blues man who was an inspiration to another Louisianan who would one day become world famous!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:08
  • Purchases: 2
Out of Gas, In with Justice
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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NYC Housing Authority is the city's largest landlord. Pilot programs to electrify its decrepit housing stock find successes and stumbling blocks w...

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Grandma inspired first lesbian Calif. Supreme Court Justice
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kelli Evans, the first out lesbian on the state's high court, was raised by her grandmother in public ho...

Bought by KGUA and WORT


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2

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