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Crime Novelist Tracy Clark’s FALL (2nd in Harriet Foster Series)
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Tracy Clark⁠ is an award-winning author of 6 crime novels including the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series. ⁠ FALL⁠ is her newest book and second i...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 10:35
Season 1, Episode 10 - 'Power of Voice' feat Dominique Daye Hunter
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Dominique Daye Hunter explores her art's inspiration and its role in challenging the undervaluing of art.

Bought by KSTK, WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:05
  • Purchases: 4
20240129: Read And Ride, 1/29/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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The Children's Hour Kids Crew meets Ms. Caitlyn Gooch from Saddle Up And Read, a North Carolina based organization encouraging literacy through rea...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Read And Ride
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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The Children's Hour Kids Crew meets Ms. Caitlyn Gooch from Saddle Up And Read, a North Carolina based organization encouraging literacy through rea...

Bought by KRSC, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KECG, KDLG and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Mixed News for North Carolina Voters, as Federal Courts Temporarily Block Voter Suppression Bill but Uphold Racially Gerrymandered Maps
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Mixed News for North Carolina Voters, as Federal Courts Temporarily Block Voter Suppression Bill but Uphold Racially Gerrymandered Maps

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, and WUTC


  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #717 - James Brown: 1956-58
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 Juke In The Back features one of R&B and Rock n' Roll's greatest acts, James Brown. Before he was "The Godfather," Brown had to suff...

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


  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
214: The Secret Spot Episode 214: Spotlight On Diana Ross, 1/27/2024
From: WERS
Series: The Secret Spot
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We open our Vault of Soul to shine a spotlight on the contributions of Diana Ross

  • Added: Jan 27, 2024
  • Length: 59:35
UpFront Soul #2024.05-January 30-February 5, 2024
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Billy Wooten
We'll hear heavy funk from Chester Randle's Soul Senders and Billy Garner, feast on Memphis Soul Stew with King Curtis by request, and enjoy a heap...

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


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 15
828: Black History Month: The Black History of the Banjo, 2/15/2024
From: Afropop Worldwide
Series: Afropop Worldwide
Caption: Portrait of a young black woman, seated, holding nine string banjo, Credit: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
This program traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
LaMont Dottin
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:00
New music from BJ The Chicago Kid
From: KMUW
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Hear a new silky soul single, “Never Change,” by BJ the Chicago Kid, featuring the legendary Earth, Wind & Fire’s, Phillip Bailey. Also, new gospe...

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


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:27
  • Purchases: 6
Two Florida Anti-Voter Redistricting and Voting Rights Laws Headed Back to Court
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Two Florida Anti-Voter Redistricting and Voting Rights Laws Headed Back to Court

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Dimensions M04: New music from Kirsten Edkins from her album "Shapes & Sound"
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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saxophonist Kirsten Edkins' new album "Shapes & Sounds."

Bought by KJZX-Austin, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KHNS, KMUW and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
"Black History Month Special" with Tracy K. Smith, Saeed Jones, and Meklit
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire Specials
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This Black History Month special episode features the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-so...

Bought by KUT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WLPR , WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
StoryCorps Griot: Nidera Brown and Conchetta Brown
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Nidera and Conchetta Brown at their StoryCorps interview in San Antonio, TX on November 17, 2022, Credit: Manuela Velasquez for StoryCorps
Conchetta Brown and her daughter, Nidera Brown, discuss their close relationship in life and in death.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
SCOTUS Declines Stay Request from Michigan’s Independent Redistricting Commission; 19 State House & Senate Districts to be Redrawn
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
SCOTUS Declines Stay Request from Michigan’s Independent Redistricting Commission; 19 State House & Senate Districts to be Redrawn

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: B.C. Franklin (right), I.H. Spears (left) and Effie Thompson (center) filing insurance claims for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in a Red Cross tent. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin
In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
851: Black History Month: The Black History of Tap Dancing, 2/8/2024
From: Afropop Worldwide
Series: Afropop Worldwide
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Strap on your shoes and shuffle along as we trace the history of tap and celebrate the Black artists and innovators who built--and continue to buil...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
734: Black History Month: The Ring and The Shout, 2/1/2024
From: Afropop Worldwide
Series: Afropop Worldwide
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This Hip Deep episode presents the stunning radio premiere of "Oh, David," the traditional song of the annual Easter Rock in Winnsboro, Louisiana.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: The Gay Black Civil Rights Financier
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #716 - R&B Influences: Delta Rhythm Boys
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
The "Juke In The Back" takes a deep look at The Delta Rhythm Boys, one of R&B's early influences. They never scored the hits like the Mills Brothe...

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


  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
UpFront Soul #2024.04-January 23-29, 2024
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Les McCann
We'll pay tribute to the late, great Les McCann, spin some tunes from the Crescent City courtesy of The Meters and Chocolate Milk, and celebrate Ge...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 13
865: The Year Of Return / 866: Wintering In The Wild, 1/20/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Year Of Return" - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
New music from The Whispers
From: KMUW
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A smoldering new single by The Whispers, “Maybe the Fire Isn’t Out” along with classics from the talented Patrice Rushen, Boz Scaggs and Kool & Th...

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


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 6

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