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Black Love
From: The Stoop
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From our words, to dance, to the everyday sounds that surround us, we explore the special ways we express and feel the love..

Bought by KALW, WFSU, KVCR, WGBH Radio Boston, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 52:10
  • Purchases: 12
Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Perfect for Women's History Month programming. "Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects," a new special from The Kitchen Sisters, h...

Bought by WCUW 91.3 FM, WILL, KALW, WRGY, WKSU and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 54
Hisako Hasegawa
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:55
Dawn Powell
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
La Divina: Maria Callas at 100
From: WRTI
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A celebration of soprano Maria Callas's voice, life, and legacy in honor of her centennial.

Bought by WCLV and Interlochen Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
House/Full of Black Women
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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For some eight years now, 34 Black women from the Bay Area — artists, scholars, midwives, nurses, an architect, an ice cream maker, a donut maker, ...

Bought by KASU, WWNO, High Plains Public Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 53:27
  • Purchases: 45
EP217 Larkin Poe Blood Harmony
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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The Lovell Sisters collaborate in their efforts to put out another top-notch Larkin Poe Album, "Blood Harmony".

Bought by WLPR and WLPR


  • Added: Dec 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 2
Sarah Jones on Sex & Making an “Unorthodoc”
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an ‘unorthodoc’ about sex, power, r...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Ebony Classics - Fascinating Rhythm
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Classics
Caption: Lieutenant James Reese Europe, Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Lieutenant James Reese Europe" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1917.
Ebony Classics - A Classic Exposure features the music of people of color in the Classical music industry.

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 1
Mother Mine: January Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear people from Mexico, Jamaica, Indonesia, and Nigeria talk about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers.

Bought by WMPG and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 2
Savannah Bustillo's Tongue Twisters in Graphite
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: "Enchilada" , Credit: Savannah Bustillo
In the world of audio recording, sound is visually represented in what’s called a wave form. They often look like tall ovals with vertical spikes. ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:42
Women on the Waterfront
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...

Bought by KVNF and KCNP


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 34: Lost and Found
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 45:28
EP174 Ally Venable "Heart of Fire"
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Ally Venable's latest release "Heart of Fire"

  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:35
How to Survive the Future
From: Alex Chambers
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How to Survive the Future: A Special features two interviews from the future, introduced by an essay on Walter Benjamin and hope in dark times. In ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
Episode 27: He Left in a Storm, He'll Return in a Storm
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 27:04
The Hadley Park Line Dancers
From: David Condos
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Meet Joann Jones. She's 79 years old, and she loves to dance. So, she helped start a line dancing class for senior citizens at the Hadley Park Comm...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 15:57
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 140: Cowboy Bob
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the teller a note that read, “This is a bank robbery. G...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 31:54
Re:sound - The Family Ties Show
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast
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This hour, stories about family ties, love and loss.

Bought by KOSU, Troy Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Michigan Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
EP86 The Heather Newman Band
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska Heather Newman shows us the Blues are alive and well in that part of USA as well as others.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
EP71 Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Blues with a vintage swing is how I'd describe the music of Erin Harpe and her delta Swingers.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 57:35
EP74 Sue Foley
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
Caption: Sue Foley
The Ice Queen from Canada, Sue Foley

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:37
EP84 Larkin Poe
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Two sisters who call themselves Larkin Poe make a new mark in the Blues world with their unique sound of Blues!

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 57:43
EP88 Carolyn Wonderland
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Another amazing blues musician from Texas, we explore the music of Carolyn Wonderland.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:32
EP92 Ana Popovic
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Blues musician Ana Popovic has been showcasing her music since she was a teen-ager. Now a veteran of years of performing and recording, she always ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 57:57

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