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Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Our guest in this program lived in Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia from 1972 to 1990. Her fat...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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In this program, we are going to go back into California history about 150 years, and visit with the last Mexican governor of California, Pio Pico....

  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Some people’s memories of President Richard Nixon are negative due to his role in escalating the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations at Kent St...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Miff Mole & Red Nichols
Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...

Bought by WNCU and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
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The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:13