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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
HPM BHM 2024 Vignettes
From: KUHF
Series: Black History Month One-minute Vignettes
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Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 13:00
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
February became Black History Month in 1976. It was about time.
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
February is Black History Month, officially recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976. It was about time. The 1960s had seen crucial economic gai...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
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
Building Back Black Wall Street
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021
Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
828: Black History Month: The Black History of the Banjo, 2/15/2024
From: Afropop Worldwide
Series: Afropop Worldwide
Caption: Portrait of a young black woman, seated, holding nine string banjo, Credit: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
This program traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
"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
Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: B.C. Franklin (right), I.H. Spears (left) and Effie Thompson (center) filing insurance claims for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in a Red Cross tent. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin
In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
851: Black History Month: The Black History of Tap Dancing, 2/8/2024
From: Afropop Worldwide
Series: Afropop Worldwide
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Strap on your shoes and shuffle along as we trace the history of tap and celebrate the Black artists and innovators who built--and continue to buil...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
734: Black History Month: The Ring and The Shout, 2/1/2024
From: Afropop Worldwide
Series: Afropop Worldwide
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This Hip Deep episode presents the stunning radio premiere of "Oh, David," the traditional song of the annual Easter Rock in Winnsboro, Louisiana.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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
Echoes of a Coup
From: Scene on Radio
Caption: Echoes of a Coup art, Credit: Zaire McPhearson
One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, WYPR, WFDD and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 25
Black History Month: The African American String Music Tradition
From: Afropop Worldwide
Series: Afropop Worldwide’s Celebration of Black History Month 2024
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This program explores the history of African-American string bands, with music and memories from a special guest: the late string maestro Howard Ar...

Bought by WVTF, CHSR-FM 97.9, WCUW 91.3 FM, KUPR low power FM, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8

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