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An African-American poet's tribute...
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: NOVEMBER, 2015
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...To her late Eritrean-American husband, Ficre -- a painter, chef, and loving father -- in Elizabeth Alexander's new memoir, The Light Of The Worl...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
The Warmth of the Other Suns
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: American Black Male Leadership Institute Radio
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Alfred Bundy and Kevin Jenkins in conversation about this book.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 18:57
Episode 3 - FBI Agent reads from Anthony Horowitz' kid spy novel "Stormbreaker"
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
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What does it take to be a spy? We ask a real FBI agent and talk to writer Anthony Horowitz about his James Bond Jr.: Alex Rider in "Stormbreaker."

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 19:02
Episode 2 - LA Laker Tarik Black reads from Kwame Alexander's Newbery Award winning novel "The Crossover"
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
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5th graders from DC's Watkins Elementary discuss - and sing about - Kwame Alexander's poetic story of brothers and basketball "The Crossover." LA L...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 22:44
Poet and Playwright Claudia Rankine has us board the bus for the Bronx
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Claudia Rankine
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
Children's book aims to kickstart diversity in the mostly white world of kid lit
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Think about some of the classics of children’s literature. There’s Where the Wild Things Are...Goodnight Moon...and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatbal...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 08:14
  • Purchases: 2
America the Beautiful (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In honor of Independence Day, a former radio DJ joins us to play a selection of patriotic songs sung by African Americans. (And more...)

Bought by KZYX, WJCT, WVAS, WNMU-FM, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 11
America the Beautiful (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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This stirring hour show of American music and literature begins with patriotic musical performances by the likes of Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, ...

Bought by WVTF, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KHNS, WUTC, WVTF and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 38
"The Other Blacklist"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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The Cutting Edge presents Mary Helen Washington, author of “ The Other Blacklist” which shows how the government targeted African- American as wel...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:02:17
Wild Blessings (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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This Poetry Month: We celebrate the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, wo...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVMR, KENW, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Wild Blessings (Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This Poetry Month, we honor the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanho...

Bought by WCNY, KOWS, WTJU, KUNV, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
"Degrees of Freedom: The Origin of Civil Rights in Minnesota" by William D. Green
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Bill Green is the author of "Degrees of Freedom: The Origin of Civil Rights in Minnesota," a book that examines the dichotomy between Minnesota's p...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 16:48
James Hannaham discusses "Delicious Foods"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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James Hannaham is an author, part-time conceptual artist, journalist, and teacher.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 17:27
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
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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
The 90th Anniversary of Langston Hughes' "The Weary Blues" with "Selected Letters of Langston Hughes"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In commemoration of the 90th Anniversary of the writing of Langston Hughes’ seminal work “ The Weary Blues”, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts fro...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:19
  • Purchases: 1
An Early Passion For Reading
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: FEBRUARY 2015
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African-American author LaShonda Katrice Barnett, interviewed recently on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (2/8/15), reads here from her heralded new n...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
First Novel to TV Series: Author Jason Mott and “The Returned"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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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
Bloodier Than Tarantino: The Real Slave Narrative and Its Complexities
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:51
The Nightfly #2015.15 - Poetry Month Special - April 13-19, 2015
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul (formerly The Nightfly with Sanguine Fromage)
Caption: Nikki Giovanni
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 KZUM, KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WJAB, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 7
Shadows Are Black: Slavery's Long Setting
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s show, Shadows are Black: Slavery’s Long Setting, features a discussion on the text and context of Herman Melville’s 1855 novella “Benito ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 57:12
"Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota" edited by Alexs Pate with Pamela Fletcher and J. Otis Powell
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Pamela Fletcher talks about - and reads from - her contributions to the anthology "Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota." Publishe...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 11:18
  • Purchases: 1
African-American Poet Angela Jackson
From: New Letters on the Air
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In this public reading entitled "Love Letters to Generations," Angela Jackson shares some of her work, including a reading from her first novel, th...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bridging the Divide
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Janet Cheatham Bell
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
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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

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