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Episode #598 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 5 - 1954-59
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WOUB and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
Abolishing the Death Penalty (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

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


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Abolishing the Death Penalty (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WFAE, WMUU-LP, KEDT and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Abolishing the Death Penalty (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

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


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Abolishing the Death Penalty (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Earlier this year, Virginia made headlines when it became the latest state to abolish the death penalty.

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


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #597 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 4 - 1951-53
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WOUB and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Adjoa Andoh from Netflix's Hit Series Offers Advice to a young BIPOC Artist
From: Anne Hoffman
Series: Off Mic from Philly Audio Diaries
Caption: Adjoa Andoh playing the fan favorite, Lady Danbury, on Netflix’s Bridgerton.
“Don’t worry about if you’re messing up as a woman or messing up, you know, as representing women of Chinese heritage or Iranian heritage or Grenad...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 19:43
StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative: La'Shanda Holmes and Jeanine Menze
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lieutenant Commander La’Shanda Holmes talks to her mentor, Commander Jeanine Menze, about being the first two Black female pilots in the United Sta...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:25
Episode #596 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 3 - 1950-51
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
A Community Person
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today we're talking to Rhonda Sewell, the first director of belonging & community engagement at the Toledo Museum of Art. Although Rhonda is fillin...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #595 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 2 - 1947-49
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WOUB and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Suffragist Playbook (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Last year, America celebrated the anniversary of many women getting the right to vote. But what led up to that victory was decades and decades of h...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Suffragist Playbook (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Last year, America celebrated the anniversary of many women getting the right to vote. But what led up to that victory was decades and decades of h...

Bought by WTJU, WMMT, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Suffragist Playbook (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Last year, America celebrated the anniversary of many women getting the right to vote. But what led up to that victory was decades and decades of h...

Bought by KRZA, KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WJCT and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Suffragist Playbook (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Last year, America celebrated the anniversary of many women getting the right to vote. But what led up to that victory was decades and decades of h...

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


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #594 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 1 - 1943-46
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WYAP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
It’s Magic: Birth Justice and Black Maternal Health
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Allegra Hill, co-founder of Kindred Space L.A.
Through the work and birth stories of midwife, Allegra Hill, the producers of Re:Work Radio explain how Black midwives in Los Angeles are helping w...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU


  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DuBOIS & The And I Thought Ladies
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, award-winning poet and now novelist, about The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, just out from Harper Collins. Th...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:38
Meet 2021 NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Terri Lyne Carrington, Credit: Delphine Diallo
Virtuoso drummer and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington talks about career and her advocacy for “jazz without patriarchy.”

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, New England Public Media, and KZUM


  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Wordless and Riveting, “felt / not said” by Mankwe Ndosi and Body MemOri Comes From the Body
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Mankwe Ndosi, Credit: Sally Nixon
The album "felt / not said" by Mankwe Ndosi and Body MemOri features cello, contrabasso, percussion, wildly versatile vocals by Ndosi, but the albu...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 1
Career Sponsorship -- and Being Sponsor Ready
From: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Series: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Caption: Ricky Robinson rose to the position of CHRO in a billion-dollar corporation...after learning how an in-house sponsor was better than a mentor in helping climb the corporate ladder.
The leadership journey can be a difficult one with unseen challenges that ruin reputations. Skilled people can be left wondering what went wrong if...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 52:46
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
180: Dr. Mae Carol Jemison
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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On September 12, 1992, Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first Black female astronaut. She's an engineer, a scientist, a physician, and an educator....

Bought by KMUN, WRFA-LP, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Griot: Sabrina Beavers and Shantay Davies-Balch
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Sabrina Beavers and Shantay Davies-Balch at their StoryCorps interview in Sanger, CA on May 3, 2019. By Nicolas Cadenat for StoryCorps., Credit: Nicolas Cadena
Sabrina Beavers talks to her friend and colleague, Shantay Davies- Balch about Black maternal health and the premature births of their children.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1

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