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The Untold Story of Langston Hughes at St. Cloud State University with Mike Dando
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Black History Month kicks off at KVSC with the Untold Story of Central Minnesota take on Langston Hughes. Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff C...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:49
UpFront Soul #2019.14- Poetry Month Special - April 8-14
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Langston Hughes
We'll hear poets- many from the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movements- reading their work, along with poetry set to music, and hip-hop. We'll...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, Royalton Community Radio, KBBI Alaska, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 8
Poetry That Heals (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Irène Mathieu is a doctor and a poet who says both science and poetry use language that helps her understand deeper truths about the human conditi...

Bought by WCNY, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KALW, KUNM, KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 18
Poetry That Heals (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Irène Mathieu is a doctor and a poet who says both science and poetry use language that helps her understand deeper truths about the human condit...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WLPR and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Poetry That Heals (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Poetry and medicine are seemingly different occupations. But pediatrician and poet Irène Mathieu says both science and poetry use language to under...

Bought by WNMU-FM and KXCV


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
John Grisham Writers Hour - James McBride
From: WMRA
Series: The John Grisham Writers Hour
Caption: John Grisham & James McBride, Credit: JMU Creative Media
Recorded in front of a live audience, WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest James McBride, a N...

Bought by WCVE


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 1
Evicted!
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: A sofa and mattresses on the street in front of an apartment building. "Sofa Free, and throw in 2 box springs", Credit: walknboston is licensed under CC by 2.0.
There’s an eviction crisis in the United States, and it’s disproportionately affecting communities of color.

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Afrofuturism: Imagination and Humanity, Ytasha Womack
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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According to Ytasha Womack, use of the imagination for self-development and social change is one of the greatest tenets of Afrofuturism. This show ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Feb 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 955E: Guy Davis and Fabrizio Poggi and The Affrilachian Poets
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Caption: Guy and Fabrizio pay homage to the legendary blues duo Sonny & Brownie.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues master Guy Davis and Italian harmonica virtuso Fabrizio P...

Bought by WLIW, RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, WEKU, WETS and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 11
Award-winning Poet and Cave Canem Fellow Marcus Wicker
From: New Letters on the Air
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Michigan native Marcus Wicker reads from his 2011 National Poetry Series winning collection, MAYBE THE SADDEST THING, which was also a finalist for...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Greg Iles
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Author Greg Iles talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
Brotherly Love
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2019
  • Length: 57:58
MN Reads: "Double Exposure: Images of Black Minnesota in the 1940s" by John Glanton
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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The backstory of Double Exposure: Images of Black Minnesota in the 1940s is almost as compelling as the book itself. It's how a family discovered...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 14:54
The Literary And Local Legacy Of Virginia Hamilton And Arnold Adoff
From: WYSO
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Just about every place has a local hero, a hometown kid who grew up to make their mark on the world. In Yellow Springs, Ohio, one hometown hero mad...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:31
Writers Voice: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, FRIDAY BLACK & Mark Russell Gelade, NAVIGATING BY STARS
From: Francesca Rheannon
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ana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah talks about his award-winning story collection Friday Black. Then, we talk about the art of the really really short story w...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Drawing History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Amer...

Bought by WCNY, WJAB, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Drawing History (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Ame...

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, Harford Community Radio, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
National Writers Series: Alice Walker
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, and essayist Alice Walker talks with Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley.

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
317: Discovering America's Black DNA / 318: Story Worlds, 10/20/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Discovering America's Black DNA" - What happens when common DNA brings the black and white side of the family together for the first tim...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:59
Poet and MacArthur Fellow Terrance Hayes
From: New Letters on the Air
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Multi-award-winning poet and MacArthur fellow, Terrance Hayes, reads from his fifth book, HOW TO BE DRAWN, winner of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Afrofuturism: 3 Women you Need to Know
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...

Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Locking Up Our Own
From: Sally Tucker
Series: Thinking CAP
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James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 24:54
One Blues Invisible: Ralph Ellison's Pledge
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology, published by NYU Press, M. Cooper Harriss finds in Ellison’s masterpiece an underlying “civil religious orie...

  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:04
93: How to age without apology - Nina Collins, author of "What Would Virginia Woolf Do?"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nina Collins
What's so monumental about turning 40 for women and why do we need our own Facebook group? Turns out--pretty much everything. Nina Collins has crea...

Bought by KCSB-FM, KSJD, KWIT, KUT, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Muggles Abroad (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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An English professor who loves the Harry Potter books brings a few lucky students each year to London to visit the magical sites in the fantasy ser...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Harford Community Radio, WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 10

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