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Meet the Step Artist and the Founder of Step Afrika!: C. Brian Williams
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: C. Brian Williams, Credit: Jim Saah
Step Artist and Producer and 2022 National Heritage Fellow C. Brian Williams discusses the rich cultural history of stepping and his work bringing ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Griot: Daniel Sampson and Charlie Sampson
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Charlie Sampson and his son Daniel Sampson at their StoryCorps interview in Denver, Colorado on May 30, 2023. , Credit: By Tamekia Jackson for StoryCorps.
Growing up in LA’s Watts neighborhood, a visit to a traveling carnival introduced Charlie Sampson to life as a professional cowboy. In 1982 he beca...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Abolishing the Death Penalty (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KXCV


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Abolishing the Death Penalty (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Abolishing the Death Penalty (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WRMU, WFHB, WYAP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Abolishing the Death Penalty (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Celebrate Black Music Month with NEA Jazz Master Kenny Garrett!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kenny Garrett, Credit: Jimmy Katz
Saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Kenny Garrett talks about his life in music.

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


  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
A Confrontation with History (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Confrontation with History (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KVSC, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, KMUN, WRMU and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
A Confrontation with History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

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


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
A Confrontation with History (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

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


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
TSSAAPR230621: Emergent '23 Music from Kassa Overall, Rasheed Ali, more
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
The Soul Show debuts the latest installment of Rasheed Ali's "1968" series, plus creative jazz/hiphop work by Kassa Overall on 2023's "Animals" rel...

Bought by WPVM 103.7, RADIOLEX, WYAP, KCHW, and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 5
2021 National Book Award Winner Tiya Miles Turns Her Hand to Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tiya Miles, Credit: Stephanie Mitchell
2011 MacArthur Fellow, 2021 National Book Award winner, historian, and novelist Tiya Miles discusses how fiction and history meet in her novel.

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


  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Why Black San Franciscans Are Fighting for Reparations
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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San Francisco is considering reparations for Black San Franciscans. To understand why advocates are pushing for reparations in the city, we dive de...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KALW


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Empathy Tours (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Empathy Tours (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

Bought by WUTC, KVSC, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Empathy Tours (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

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


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Empathy Tours (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Jalane Schmidt recently brought a group of Virginia teachers to see Charlottesville’s tiny monument to its enslaved residents. One teacher had a st...

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


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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
NL 23-25: On A Turquoise Cloud: Duke Ellington After The War, 1945-47, 6/12/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Ellington kept his orchestra together in a changing economic landscape, continuing to create memorable music and expanding his compositional horizons.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Visions of Style (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In the late 70s, the University of Virginia inherited 10,000 glass plate negatives from the Holsinger Studio.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHEN-LP, RadioStPete Florida, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Visions of Style (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In the late 70s, the University of Virginia inherited 10,000 glass plate negatives from the Holsinger Studio.

Bought by KUHF, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Visions of Style (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In the late 70s, the University of Virginia inherited 10,000 glass plate negatives from the Holsinger Studio.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, KVSC, WYAP, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Visions of Style (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In the late 70s, the University of Virginia inherited 10,000 glass plate negatives from the Holsinger Studio.

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KUHF, WTJU, KXCV, KEDT and more


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Mothers of Gynecology
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.

Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 56:56
  • Purchases: 2

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