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Black Indianapolis Series
From: Deqah Hussein-Wetzel
Series: Black Indianapolis Series
Caption: Black Indianapolis Series, Credit: Urbanist Media
This two-part series on African American history in Indianapolis, IN, takes you to Indiana Avenue—a once vibrant Black corridor with homes, restaur...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 52:54
707.R: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 6/17/2024 5:00 PM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Kent Nagano.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
707.J: ANYTIME CLASSICAL EXTENDED, 6/17/2024 9:00 AM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL Extended Pieces
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4 works, including WALKER: Lyric for Strings. Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Pulitzer on the Road - Episode 3: Jefferson Cowie on Freedom's Dominion in Alabama
From: Pulitzer on the Road
Series: Pulitzer on the Road
Caption: Jefferson Cowie and Kelly Lytle Hernandez examining the Eufaula Tribune archive
Jefferson Cowie’s book Freedom’s Dominion gives the history of white Americans fighting for the freedom to dominate others and won the Pulitzer Pri...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 53:25
The Road to Rickwood Episode 4
From: WWNO
Series: The Road to Rickwood
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On June 20 2024, Major League Baseball will host a regular season game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. But the 114-year-old stadium has a...

Bought by WBHM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 1
CP - In Honor of Juneteenth: The Anne Spencer House & Garden, with Shaun Spencer Hester
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
Caption: Courtesy of Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum, all rights reserved.
In honor of Juneteenth celebrations coming up, we check in on the Anne Spencer House & Garden in Lynchburg, VA. The home and garden of Harlem Renai...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The Road to Rickwood Episode 3
From: WWNO
Series: The Road to Rickwood
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On June 20 2024, Major League Baseball will host a regular season game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. But the 114-year-old stadium has a...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
702.S: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 6/10/2024 6:00 PM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including RAVEL: Tzigane: Rhapsodie de concert. London Symphony Orchestra/Claudio Abbado; Salvatore Accardo, violin.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
702.N: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 6/10/2024 1:00 PM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including RAVEL: Tzigane: Rhapsodie de concert. London Symphony Orchestra/Claudio Abbado; Salvatore Accardo, violin.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
What is Owed? from GBH News
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Caption: What Is Owed? from GBH News
In What Is Owed? from GBH News, reporter Saraya Wintersmith seeks to understand what reparations might look like in one of the oldest cities in Ame...

Bought by WFSU, WRVO Public Media, Troy Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WWNO and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
The Road to Rickwood Episode 2
From: WWNO
Series: The Road to Rickwood
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On June 20 2024, Major League Baseball will host a regular season game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. But the 114-year-old stadium has a...

Bought by KERA


  • Added: Jun 04, 2024
  • Length: 51:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Road to Rickwood Episode 1
From: WWNO
Series: The Road to Rickwood
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On June 20 2024, Major League Baseball will host a regular season game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. But the 114-year-old stadium has a...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KERA


  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 51:29
  • Purchases: 2
Wrapping up Stevie Wonder Month
From: KMUW
Series: Soulsations
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We’ll wrap up Stevie Wonder Month on Soulsations! We celebrate the legendary musician who turned 74 on May 13th. Wonder’s childhood friend, John ...

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


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:27
  • Purchases: 6
HBCU Renaissance (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, KECG and more


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
HBCU Renaissance (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

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


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
HBCU Renaissance (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
HBCU Renaissance (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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HBCUs rose from the ashes of slavery and have been educating Black students for generations.

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


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 6 - The Center of the Gardens
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned.

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:08:45
Episode 5 - Inheriting the Shoebox
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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As her health begins to wain, Hazel passes the baton to her daughter Cheryl who guides PCR through the treacherous waters of attacks, blackballing,...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:14:51
Episode 4 - Mothering the Movement
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We hear Hazel become a mother of the newly coalesced global Environmental Justice movement and take EJ to the highest halls of power, while still c...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:03:18
Episode 3 - From the Center of the Donut
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
Episode 2 - "They Should've Never Built This"
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:53
Episode 1 - Help This Garden Grow
From: Daniel Kisslinger
Series: Help This Garden Grow
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We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:27
"Colored Blues Singer" by Countee Cullen w/ Blind Willie Johnson
From: Michael Henrik Wynn
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Countee Cullen (1903-1946) was a well known African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 30s. In this video I have set a r...

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 03:06
New Brownies (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Do you remember reading children’s newspapers in your childhood? In the 20s, W.E.B. DuBois started a paper just for “children of the sun.”

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KIYU-FM, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, KHNS and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7

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