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6 works, including BACH: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E, BWV 1042. Academy of St Martin in Fields/Joshua Bell; Joshua Bell, violin.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including MOZART: IMPRESSARIO:Overture:, K 486. Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra/Mario Bernardi.

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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6 works, including BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36 (mov. 3 & 4 only) . Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Kent Nagano.

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 57:03
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6 works, including BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36 (mov. 3 & 4 only) . Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Kent Nagano.

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 57:03
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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
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6 works, including STILL: A Deserted Plantation; Mark Boozer, piano.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 56:59
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4 works, including COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Gipsy Suite, Op. 20. RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin/Adrian Leaper.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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4 works, including COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Gipsy Suite, Op. 20. RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin/Adrian Leaper.

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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This Black History Month special episode features the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-so...

Bought by KUT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WLPR , WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Dom Flemons
In honor of Black History Month, OHR pays tribute to African Americans’ profound contribution to American music. Forged into the roots of blues, j...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Cass Lake, 1908
In 2016, genealogist Mica L. Anders interviewed 7 families about their summer cabins in the north woods of Minnesota for the Minnesota Historical S...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:42
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
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Historian Alison Rose Jefferson discusses her book ‘Living The California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During The Jim Crow Era’. She demon...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 50:30
  • Purchases: 1
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As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Dr. Charles Drew, pictured in a lab at Howard University in 1942, was known as the father of blood banking for pioneering the way we store and transport blood today., Credit: Dr. Charlene Jarvis
In the 1940s, Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon and blood scientist, and today he is known as the “Father of Blood Banks.” His daughter, Dr. Charlene ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Amythyst Kiah
In celebration of Black History Month, this episode features poet Kevin Young, groundbreaking Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, writer and historian...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
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In celebration of Black History Month, this special episode features poet Kevin Young, groundbreaking Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, writer and h...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
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An uplifting exploration of the Indigenous musical traditions of pre-20th century Black music.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KMUN


  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 27:56
  • Purchases: 2
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My name is Shawn Hughes. I wrote this piece consciously, recapping one of my most important moments of the year. In the midst of two pandemics, eve...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 06:54
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Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 32:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rohulamin Quander at his home in Washington D.C. in 2016 and Alicia Argrett in Madison, Mississippi in 2010., Credit: Rohulamin Quander and Alicia Argrett.
An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
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"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news th...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Dean of the School of Health and Human...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 40:51
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Dean of the School of Health and Human...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 31:37
  • Purchases: 1