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S08 Ep26: One Life: Margaret Bonds, 2/24/2024
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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Margaret Bonds was allowed to study at Northwestern University - but not to use any of their other facilities. This week, a look at the life and m...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
Debate: Coleman Hughes and Jamelle Bouie on Color Blindness for Black History Month
From: Open to Debate
Caption: PRX default Piece image
During Black History Month, we reflect on a debate that confronts America’s complex history with racial and social inequality. How can we ensure fa...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 5
Life Without Boundaries (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Motherhood is a life without boundaries.

Bought by WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KIYU-FM, KVSC and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Life Without Boundaries (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Motherhood is a life without boundaries.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KECG, KHEN-LP, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Life Without Boundaries (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Motherhood is a life without boundaries.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Life Without Boundaries (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Motherhood is a life without boundaries.

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


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Musician's Spotlight - Joshua Redman - 860
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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World renowned and multiple Grammy Nominated saxophonist Joshua Redman makes his first appearance on Musician's Spotlight. Joshua talks about his n...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 2
Bonus Edition: Meet Jazz Great Gary Bartz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Gary Bartz, Credit: Alan Nahigian
In this tuneful 59 minute podcast, 2024 NEA Jazz Master Saxophonist Gary Bartz talks about his life and career, touching on his roots, influences, ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
Meet National Heritage Fellow Tap Dancer Reggio McLaughlin
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Reggio McLaughlin, Credit: Reggio McLaughlin
Tap Dancer and 2021 National Heritage Fellow, Reginald “Reggio the Hoofer” McLaughlin tap-dancing from Chicago’s subways to stages around the world.

Bought by WDCB, WMPG, RADIOLEX, Spokane Public Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Blue Dimensions M08: "Nublues" from Joel Ross, & the spirit of Django lives on
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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music from the new album "Nublues" from vibraphonist Joel Ross, and music by, and influenced by, Django Reinhardt

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


  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Negro Baseball Leagues
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...

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


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Season 1, Episode 16 - 'Safe Spaces' feat Jeanette Berry
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Can we make the music business safe for everyone?

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 57:52
  • Purchases: 4
Modern Notebook for February 25 - March 2, 2024 (Ep. 234)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook
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On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Just a fraction of the music written by composer Julia Perry survives in a way that we’re able to ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Morehead State Public Radio, KECG, GCR (Global Community Radio), Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 7
UpFront Soul #2024.06-February 20-26, 2024
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Syl Johnson
We'll set the turntables ablaze in a disco inferno with smoldering numbers from Syl Johnson, Peter Brown, The Village People, and, of course, The T...

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


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 15
20240219: Negro Baseball Leagues, 2/19/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Episode #720 - The Ray-O-Vacs
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
It's staggering, the number of R&B groups that have been left out of the history books and off radio station playlists just because they don't fit ...

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


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
216: The Secret Spot Episode 216: Spotlight On The 5th Dimension, 2/17/2024
From: WERS
Series: The Secret Spot
Caption: The 5th Dimension
The Secret Spot lets you discover and rediscover the best in R&B, Soul and Slow Jams

  • Added: Feb 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:38
AG 24-10: Carmen McRae On Decca, 3/4/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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Carmen McRae was one of the most respected jazz singers in the business for four decades. This week, we’ll explore her early recordings for the Dec...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Black History Month Jewish Style
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Sounds Jewish commemorates Black History Month with great Jewish tunes performed by African-Americans and some Jewish-Americans – plus many of the ...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
TSSAAPR240214 The Soul Show: The Catalyst, Norman Connors
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
As a BHM evergreen feature, this episode presents the catalog of 70's bandleader/composer/producer/musician Norman Connors, who was instrumental in...

Bought by KCHW and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 2
Reggie Harris
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 999 (Air Dates: Feb 19 - 25, 2024) We at Art of the Song stand with Black, Indigenous and People of Color in solidarity for equal rights and j...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM, Raven Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Angelica Community Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
Looking Back: Isabel Wilkerson and the Cultural Impact of the Great Migration
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Isabel Wilkerson, Credit: Joe Henson
Author and 2015 National Humanities Medalist Isabel Wilkerson discusses her acclaimed first book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” and the profound impac...

Bought by KMUN, WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KECG, KZUM and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 7
2407: Lincoln as a Philosopher, 2/13/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The 16th President of the United States was born February 12, 1809.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
Modern Notebook for February 18 - 24, 2024 (Ep. 233)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook
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On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Shawn Okpebholo’s work “lullaby | ballad | spiritual” is a work in which he sought to highlight the r...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KECG, WDAV Classical Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 6
20240212: Living The Dream With Megan Piphus, 2/12/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Megan Piphus is living the dream. A ventriloquist and singer, as the six year old Muppet Gabrielle, Megan is Sesame Street's first Black woman pupp...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:00

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