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Beloved Blues

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned

Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....

A Confrontation with History (hour/no bb or bed)

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

As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio

A Confrontation with History (half)

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

As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KVSC, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, KMUN, WRMU and more

A Confrontation with History (hour)

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

As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WRGY and more

A Confrontation with History (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

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

MN Reads: "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself" by David Mura

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Author David Mura talks about his new book "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself"

Newton's Annotator (hour/no bb or bed)

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

A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WRGY and more

Newton's Annotator (half)

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

A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by KMUN, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio and more

Newton's Annotator (hour)

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

A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Newton's Annotator (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WNED Buffalo

Kingsley Tufts Award-winning Poet Patricia Smith: Part 2

From: New Letters on the Air

Patricia Smith, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the 2018 winner of the coveted Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, is now the 2021 Ruth...

Bought by WDCB

REPLAY American Terrorism (hour/no bb or bed)

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

In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and WMMT

REPLAY American Terrorism (hour)

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

In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by KUAT, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more

REPLAY American Terrorism (half)

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

In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRDP and more

REPLAY American Terrorism (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

In 1979, members of the KKK shot and killed five labor and civil rights activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Bought by KUAT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM

Celebrate Juneteenth with novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Credit: Syreeta McFadden

A Conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge whose historical novel Libertie explores the possibilities and limitations for 19th century Black women.

Bought by WMPG and RADIOLEX

National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 2

From: New Letters on the Air

Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Novelist Anthony Grooms

From: New Letters on the Air

Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson

From: New Letters on the Air

NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series revisits Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, whose 2020 book, CASTE, is now a bestseller. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDCB, and WRKF

The Past American Voice of Ernest Gaines

From: New Letters on the Air

Caption: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License,_version_1.2, Credit: S L O W K I N G

Black History Month continues with a tribute to one of America's best fiction writers, Ernest Gaines (1933-2019.This Past American Voices episode f...

Bought by WDCB

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Tyehimba Jess

From: New Letters on the Air

Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess reads from his multi-award winning poetry book, OLIO, delving into the voices of African American creatives in ...

Blocks and Brownstones

From: Brooklyn Public Library

In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.

An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (half)

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

A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, KRZA, WLPR , KMUN and more

Maya Angelou's Africa (feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

We tend to remember Maya Angelou for her activism in the United States. But a recent tribute at James Madison University showed her poetry’s global...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Where Game of Thrones Begins (hour)

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

-The medieval roots of "Game of Thrones" -Shakespeare and the Muslim characters in his play. -The question of "highbrow" vs. "lowbrow" in art and l...

Bought by WCNY, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

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