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Long before the term La Vida Loca became a song hook for early-aught pop star Ricky Martin, in Los Angeles California, it denoted a lifestyle.The c...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 53:04
- Purchases: 1
We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 50:03
- Purchases: 2
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 54:18
- Purchases: 4
For D.C. youths who get caught up in the adult system, prison isn’t just an experience, it’s a journey. Because it’s not a full-fledged state, the ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 54:24
- Purchases: 1
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:52
- Purchases: 1
Michigan has always been home to a number of bustling American enterprises, including the prison industry. Each year, the state's correctional faci...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:27
- Purchases: 2
We travel to Indianapolis, IN to explore the story of literary great Etheridge Knight, who published his first book, the soulful 1968 masterpiece ...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:09
- Purchases: 3
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Funeral services for New Jersey’s last poet laureate, Amiri Baraka, was held at Newarks’ Symphony Hall earlier this week with several thousand peop...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 01:00:02
Sit in any prison classroom or recreation room and ask: How many writers are in the room? How many people are writing rhymes or poems? Carefully-fo...
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 13:53
- Purchases: 4
Producer Dred-Scott Keyes looks back at the life of poet/writer Amiri Baraka, who died on January 9th in Newark, New Jersey
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 28:04
Under longtime director J. Edgar Hoover, for decades FBI agents obsessively read - and even imitated - African-American writing. Dr. William J. Max...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 11:04
- Purchases: 1
Essayist Ula Biss, author of Notes from No Man's Land, offers candid reflections on the role of race in her own life and in American history.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 11:20
- Purchases: 1
A look at one of the turning points of the Civil Rights struggle 50 years later: the assassination of Medgar Evers. With poetry by Frank X. Walke...
- Added: Jul 31, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
A national study by the Cooperative Children's Books Center at the University of Wisconsin reports that diversity is lacking in children's literatu...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 19, 2013
- Length: 04:24
- Purchases: 1
African-American poet and National Book Award-winning author of LIGHTHEAD, Terrance Hayes and his wife, Yona Harvey, author of the 2013 release, HE...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1964, Southern man-of-letters Robert Penn Warren traveled the country with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and spoke with dozens of men and wo...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 1
Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses he...
- Added: Apr 03, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 1
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 15:03
In 1993, Toni Morrison became only the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joanne Gabbin, executive director of the Furiou...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 02:39
Nationally renowned writers, singers, and poets pay tribute to Toni Morrison, whose works have earned her the highest accolades in literature and e...
Bought by WJCT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KWMR
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 5
1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This episode we speak with scholar, Lisa Castillo, PhD. Her interest is Afro-Brazilian culture. More specifically, the African diaspora of Brazil. ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 28:01
