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Episode 17 - Hoodoo by Ronald L. Smith

From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids

Caption: Lina Nguyen, Kyra Johnson, and Ava Muniz are 6th graders at Sonora Elementary School in Costa Mesa

Writer Ronald L. Smith takes us on a trip down south, to the backwoods of Alabama, where a young boy was born with a heart-shaped birthmark, the ma...

Added: Mar 10, 2016
Length: 21:53

2016 Features Editor of THE NATION Kai Wright

From: New Letters on the Air

The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR

Added: Feb 25, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Meet The Twin Poets Laureate of Delaware!

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills

Poets and social workers, Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills' primary audience have been Wilmington’s under served children.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR

Added: Feb 19, 2016
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 3

Cultural Critic Rashod Ollison on music and memories

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In his memoir Soul Serenade, Rashod Ollison describes how music was a lifeline during a difficult upbringing.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR

Added: Feb 16, 2016
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

Sheer Good Fortune (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

An interview with, and tribute to, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. Also: The Civil Rights Movement and television. Plus: the singer Odetta.

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Added: Feb 12, 2016
Length: 53:57
Purchases: 7

Sheer Good Fortune (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

-A and interview with and tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. And more...

Bought by WCNY, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR, and WLIW

Added: Feb 12, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 4

WorldCanvass: Research to Real Life (Part 2)

From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass

What does it mean to be a ‘research university?’ WorldCanvass guests answer that question from multiple perspectives on this program called “Resea...

Added: Jan 29, 2016
Length: 34:47

2021-02-07 W.E.B. DuBois

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

The life and thought of sociologist, historian, philosopher, editor, writer, and activist W.E.B. DuBois.

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KUAT, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more

Added: Jan 25, 2016
Length: 53:58
Purchases: 17

Author Bill Natale on His New Book and Race Relations in Chicago

From: Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano
Series: The Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano

Author of "1968: A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then", Bill Natale sits down to discuss race relations in Chicago and his new book with Elysab...

Added: Dec 07, 2015
Length: 47:02

Poet and Playwright Claudia Rankine has us board the bus for the Bronx

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WNJR, and KPIP-LP

Added: Aug 14, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 4

Tayari Jones: Writing the Story

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Tayari Jones, Credit: Courtesy of Algonquin Press

Novelist Tayari Jones is one writer who loves writng.

Bought by WABE and WNJR

Added: Mar 06, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 2

Joyce Carol Oates and “The Sacrifice”

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Mar 04, 2015
Length: 09:58
Purchases: 1

First Novel to TV Series: Author Jason Mott and “The Returned"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Feb 19, 2015
Length: 09:55
Purchases: 2

Bridging the Divide

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

In her collection of essays, author and publisher Janet Cheatham Bell emphasizes our mutual dependency. It’s about identifying and using the power ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Added: Jan 13, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Furious Flowers: Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez (Special)

From: With Good Reason

Conversations with celebrated American poets Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KQED, WVAS, WESM 91.3 FM and more

Added: Jan 07, 2015
Length: 52:58
Purchases: 10

2011 National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward finds the past is often present in rural Mississippi.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR

Added: Oct 23, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

Boy, Snow, Bird

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts

Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix

Added: Aug 18, 2014
Length: 07:21
Purchases: 2

First Black National League Umpire

From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: JULY 2014

From the book, "For The Love Of Baseball: A Celebration Of The Game That Connects Us All," co-editor Lee Gutkind reads from his chapter. Just one o...

Bought by WSLR

Added: Jul 03, 2014
Length: 01:40
Purchases: 1

Furious Love (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Nancy Schoenberger chronicles the tempestuous romance of Liz & Dick in her book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of...

Bought by WJCT, WMNF, WLIW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Jul 03, 2014
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 4

A Burnable Book (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Murder, mystery, and poetry come together in medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger’s new novel set in Chaucer’s London.

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, and KKRN

Added: May 30, 2014
Length: 53:57
Purchases: 3

A Conversation with Dinaw Mengestu

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: Michael Lionstar

The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE

Added: May 29, 2014
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 2

A Conversation with Tope Folarin-Winner of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Tope Folarin, Credit: David Fleming

Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian ch...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Mar 20, 2014
Length: 28:24
Purchases: 1

A Conversation with Filmmaker, Pratibha Parmar

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Pratibha Parmar discusses making the recent documentary about an iconic American writer, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which can be seen on the Am...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WCSU-FM