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A young boy's father is killed in Somalia, as he makes his way to a camp in Kenya. After a long journey, now in the US, he doesn't feel discriminat...
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 08:51
Tannah and Coley are twin Gospel musicians living in an economically depressed community. Beyond the stereotypes we discover how two high-schoolers...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 15:02
Veteran pianist George Cables still wows audiences.
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 05:01
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:54
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:12
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:13
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:54
Gladys DeVane received Bloomington’s Lifetime Contribution Award on Tuesday, one of three local women honored. The theme of this year's event was "...
- Added: Mar 08, 2012
- Length: 09:45
Washington D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood has been a historically black, working-class community. Now, as property values in D.C. are climbing, a wa...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 2
Who was Sim Webb? Well, fifty-seven years earlier, April of 1900, he was the man who lived. It happened like this ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Armstrong was born in Storyville, a redlight district of New Orleans, 1901. His father left and his mother was probably a prostitute. He first lear...
- Added: Jun 18, 2011
- Length: 03:00
If the sound of his name isn't familiar, the sound of his voice certainly is. This is the unlikely story of four Detroit kids who went to a birthda...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Although he appeared on stage and in more than 20 motion pictures, Dooley Wilson won immortality for his role as "Sam" in the 1942 film Casablanca....
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
A founding father of bebop and modern jazz, wife Nellie called his style "Melodius Thunk."
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jan 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
One of our great actors. His mother called him by his initials R.C., but was mis-heard by the county clerk, so we knew him as Ossie.
- Added: Jan 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
This is a show dedicated to the memory and music of Michael Jackson when he was at Motown singing with the Jackson Five as well as solo. A Bowl of ...
- Added: Jan 01, 2011
- Length: 50:17
He was America's first rock star ... and we knew him as Johnny Ace
- Added: Nov 18, 2010
- Length: 03:00
His friends called him "Hoochie Coo," and he was one of the great jazz pianists ... composer of hundreds of songs, but best known for writing the t...
- Added: Nov 15, 2010
- Length: 03:00
The Sonny Boy Williamson classic, Good Morning Little School Girl is one of the most recorded blues tunes in history, but it’s just one of more tha...
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: 05:36
In time for Holy Week, we open with a piece on Blind Willy Johnson, a Texas street preacher who created the quintessential Good Friday blues gospel...
- Added: Mar 30, 2010
- Length: 07:28
For our fourth show we take on one of the most difficult topics to ever be expressed in popular music. Racial relations... and the ugly history of ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 07:30
In our third show we get to listen to a collection of wonderful treatments of one of the all time great sugar sticks of popular music, Louie Jordan...
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 07:09
The first in our daily series of musical trips to the Mississippi Delta. We take a ride with Huddy Ledbetter (and a few others) on the Midnight Spe...
- Added: Mar 22, 2010
- Length: 05:30
The inner secrets of a comma, a writer, a teacher.
- Added: Nov 13, 2008
- Length: 03:24
Dreams wrapped in curious packages
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 03:34
