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Without This Brave Woman, We May Never Have Heard of MLK Jr.
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It started with one thin dime, and a bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. City busses were segregated back then – whites in the front, Blacks i...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
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
2024-02-11 Lincoln as a Philosopher
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The 16th President of the United States was born February 12, 1809.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
BHM Vignette 13_HPM_William Lawson
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
BHM Vignette 12_HPM_Shotgun Houses
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
BHM Vignette 10_HPM_Nathaniel and Matilda Jackson
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
BHM Vignette 09_HPM_Freedom Colonies
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
BHM Vignette 08_HPM_Milton and William Holland
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
BHM Vignette 07_HPM_Richard Randolph Grovey
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
BHM Vignette 06_HPM_John Biggers
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month". John Biggers

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
BHM Vignette 05_HPM_Dr Merline Petri
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
BHM Vignette 04_HPM_Cora L Smith
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
BHM Vignette 03_HPM_Bessie Coleman
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month". Bessie Coleman

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
BHM Vignette 02_HPM_Barbara Jordan
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month". Barbara Jordan

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
BHM Vignette 01_HPM_African American Studies
From: KUHF
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
NL 24-07: Suite History: Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey, 2/12/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
Suite History - Four Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, Morehead State Public Radio, WLRH and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
EE 24-07: Author Jori Lewis on the natural and human history of the peanut , 2/16/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Expanding Our Origin Story (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Cauline Yates was at a family reunion the first time she heard she was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KICI Iowa City, WUGA (part of GPB), WJCU and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Expanding Our Origin Story (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Cauline Yates was at a family reunion the first time she heard she was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

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


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Expanding Our Origin Story (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Cauline Yates was at a family reunion the first time she heard she was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Expanding Our Origin Story (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Cauline Yates was at a family reunion the first time she heard she was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson.

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


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
"Black History Month Special" with Tracy K. Smith, Saeed Jones, and Meklit
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire Specials
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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
SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: The Gay Black Civil Rights Financier
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 1

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