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We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
- Purchases: 1
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
On this week's WBB talk show, we have a couple of gifted guests. One uses her superpowers to introduce Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2019
- Length: 01:00:01
Lebronze and Arguster Davis grew up on their family’s farm in Wetumpka, Alabama. As two of 17 siblings, they had little time for anything outside o...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 03:01
Welcome to this week's WBB Talkshow.
This week, we're excited to introduce you to a fantastic line-up of business owners.
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
On this week's WBB talk show, we feature two amazing women who have found solutions to some of the problems affecting the African-American community.
- Added: Oct 28, 2019
- Length: 01:00:10
Denise Baken tells her children about her family's legacy of military service—and the battles faced along the way.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, PRX Remix, and WHRV
- Added: Sep 26, 2019
- Length: 02:19
- Purchases: 3
David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:19
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:11
On this week's WBB talk show, we feature two guests who are remarkable and dynamic examples of women walking in their purpose unapologetically.
- Added: Sep 02, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
Rodney Evans talks evolution, humor, and blindness as a point of view.
- Added: Aug 30, 2019
- Length: 20:08
On this week's WBB talk show, we're taking you on a journey to West Africa.
That is where the soul of today's guest was marinated in tradition and ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2019
- Length: 59:59
Aden Batar speaks with his son Jamal Batar about fleeing civil war and being among the first Somali refugee families to resettle in Utah.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 02:13
Experience a slice of American history as two journalists share their knowledge about Martha’s Vineyard and parts of the American south.
- Added: Jun 30, 2019
- Length: 29:55
Lisa Bouler Daniels tells her biological brother Benjamin Chambers what it was like to learn about her birth mother after she passed away.
- Added: May 20, 2019
- Length: 02:49
Raven and Eboni are friends who look like each other. And there are not a lot of people who like they do at their college in Missoula, Montana. But...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2019
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Davu Seru is a north Minneapolis composer who has been influenced by experiences in Chicago and Ghana, and it all comes out in his music. Davu lead...
- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 08:00
What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights an...
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- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 56:29
- Purchases: 1
Trinidad-born photographer Johanne Rahaman shares hope for a better world in her Black Florida project—a modern archive of images that tell the sto...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 15:55
Percy White III tells his friend Terry Wright about his family’s time as sharecroppers on a Virginia farm.
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- Added: Aug 06, 2018
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 1
Once you forget the struggle, you won’t appreciate where you are.
- Added: Jul 31, 2018
- Length: 04:15
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal talk compassion, snap judgments, and the Michael Bay button.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 14:08
10-year-old Leila Ramgren talks with her father, Chad Eisen-Ramgren, about Philando Castile, the cafeteria manager at her school who was killed by ...
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- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
Famed sou-funk singer, Sweet Pea Atkinson of the 80's hitmakers Was (Not Was) releases his first solo studio effort in 30 years for Blue Note Recor...
Bought by WLPR , WART FM, Goat Radio, Public Radio East, WSLR and more
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 58:07
- Purchases: 13
This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
