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Moving Forward By Looking Back (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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When Latorial Faison meets somebody, she can almost immediately tell if they attended a Black school during segregation. She says they carry themse...

Bought by KIYU-FM


  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Moving Forward By Looking Back (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When Latorial Faison meets somebody, she can almost immediately tell if they attended a Black school during segregation. She says they carry themse...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Blue Dimensions M12: Rhapsody In Blue Re-interpretted by banjoist Béla Fleck
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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Banjoist Béla Fleck's take on "Rhapsody In Blue" — differing ideas from him and pianist Ethan Iverson about the piece

Bought by KMUN, KJZX-Austin, Royalton Community Radio, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Reproductive Justice: The Ongoing Struggle for Bodily Autonomy (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Amina Claudine Myers: Mixing Jazz with Gospel
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Amina Claudine Myers, Credit: Crystal Blake
An musical podcast with pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and 2024 Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers exploring her life in music from gospel to...

Bought by WMPG, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:43
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #724 - The Cleftones
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, Matt The Cat looks at one of the greatest Doo Wop groups, The Cleftones, through an archival interview with the late Herbie Cox. Cox was...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Royalton Community Radio, KCSM, WHRV, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
201: The Secret Spot Episode 201:Spotlight On The Pointer Sisters, 3/16/2024
From: WERS
Series: The Secret Spot
Caption: The Pointer Sisters
From studios along The Boston Common, an intimate curated playlist from the most impressive songbooks of R&B and Soul: The Secret Spot

  • Added: Mar 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:56
Finding Sacredness in the Mundane with Andrusa Lawson
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Urban shamanism and setting sacred space. Dreams, like myths, can be regarded as stories that are not true but that say something true. The essence...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 54:13
Blue Dimensions M11: The WJ3 All-Stars Bring Us Love Songs We (Maybe) Forgot
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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Music from Willie Jones III's super-group the WJ3 All-Stars from their album "Lovers and Love Songs: The Ones You Forgot."

Bought by KMUN, KJZX-Austin, KHNS, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WJSU and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Who’s Afraid of DEI?: Interrogating Gender & Race in the Workplace (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ruchika Tulshyan (left) and Ijeoma Oluo (right).
What does equity really mean? That might be an impossible question to answer objectively, but in this encore episode Ruchika Tulshyan, a workplace ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
TSSAAPR240313 The Soul Show: All Day Women '24 (evergreened WHM episode)
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
Join host Mike Canton for his annual episode of All Day Women. It's a WHM tradition, but presented in evergreen form. Enjoy!

Bought by KCHW


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 21 - 'Beyond Bars' feat Fox & Rob Richardson
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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The need for prison reform in the USA.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:25
  • Purchases: 1
UpFront Soul #2024.09 - March 12-18
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Syl Johnson
We'll hear classic soul from Syl Johnson, check out some funky stuff from Senegal and Brazil, and listen to John Coltrane's musical meditation on t...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, WOMR, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 01:57:49
  • Purchases: 14
Episode #723 - Slim Gaillard
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, we honor the "Prince Of Vout," Mr. McVouty himself, Slim Gaillard. He was a one-of-a-kind-o-reenee as he spoke 7 languages including his...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KCSM, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
A New Ballad from Ledisi and Kenny Lattimore
From: KMUW
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A new ballad by Grammy-winning vocalist, Ledisi, featuring Kenny Lattimore, “Perfect Stranger”, also a brand new single, “That’s My King”, from bes...

Bought by WGZS, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, KHNS, KSLU and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:27
  • Purchases: 6
Constant Wonder - From Emancipation to the Great Migration: A Family Journey
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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History is made by the daily decisions of regular people. One family's story of the Great Migration.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
StoryCorps Military Voices: Estel Roberts, Mariann Roberts, William Pickens, Benjamin Jenkins, Candice Francis and Sidney Francis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Sidney Francis and Candice Francis at their StoryCorps interview in New York, New York on November 29, 2005., Credit: Justina Mejias for StoryCorps
Sidney Francis and his daughter, Candice Francis, reflect on his time as one of the first Black Marines to serve at Montford Point during World War...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Dimensions M10: "Queen Rising" from violinist Kersten Stevens with Christian McBride
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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"Queen Rising" a new album from violinist Kersten Stevens with Christian McBride as co-arranger and producer

Bought by KMUN, KJZX-Austin, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS, WJSU and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
La Amistad
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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In honor of Black History Month, this episode of A New York Minute In History tells the story of the 1839 La Amistad Rebellion, in which 53 illegal...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 29:29
Author Danielle Evans: Dealing with History through Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Exploring complexities through short stories: a conversation with author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Danielle Evans

Bought by KMUN, WMPG, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KECG and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 7
Mega Ran
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Mega Ran is one of the most prolific hip hop artists you have heard, but likely have not heard of. His music is featured in hundreds of video games...

Bought by KTNA, RadioFreePalmer, KRSC, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KSTK and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
UpFront Soul #2024.08 - March 5-11 - Women's History Month
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Diana Ross
Celebrate Women's History Month with UpFront Soul! We'll hear from Abbey Lincoln, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, and Roberta Flack, plus trailblazers...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN, WOMR, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 15
John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Reintroduced to Restore VRA “Preclearance” Requirements for States with Ongoing Voter Suppression
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Reintroduced to Restore VRA “Preclearance” Requirements for States with Ongoing Voter Suppression

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and WUTC


  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #722 - Duke & Peacock Records
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the entire "Juke In The Back" is loaded with records from the catalog of Duke/Peacock Records. Don Robey created one of the great R&B la...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KJZX-Austin, KCSM, WHRV, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
217: The Secret Spot Episode 217: Spotlight On Natalie Cole, 3/2/2024
From: WERS
Series: The Secret Spot
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Smooth R&B, Vintage Soul and Slow Jams: The Secret Spot

  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:05

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