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Sometimes, the simple act of speaking in your mother tongue can be a revolutionary gesture. Ngugi wa Thiong’o — the renowned Kenyan author — believ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 15:38
Caption: Dom Flemons
In honor of Black History Month, OHR pays tribute to African Americans’ profound contribution to American music. Forged into the roots of blues, j...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
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Award-winning African ecologist Paula Kahumbu, co-author of SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS, is one of the world’s preeminent advocates for elephant conse...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 10:31
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Can dance and song offer insight into a person’s experience, and provoke curiosity, even empathy across national identity, race and gender? In this...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Hubby Jenkins
It’s Banjo Time! Join host Dave Smith and banjo royalty Mark Jones as they explore music of the banjo. From its ancient African roots, we’ll follo...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton
Old time blues, jazz, & traditional music prodigy Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Ark...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:59

  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Clarke Buehling
Traditional American banjo performer & historian Clarke Buehling and his skilled protege’ Carl Anderton recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center Stat...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Hubby Jenkins
It’s Banjo Time! Join host Dave Smith and banjo royalty Mark Jones as they explore music of the banjo. From its ancient African roots, we’ll follo...

Bought by Ohm Radio and KKFI


  • Added: Feb 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Have your listening audience enjoy Presidents Day with a fun musicial experience.

Bought by KMXT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:01:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jerron Paxton
Old time blues, jazz, & traditional music prodigy Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton performs live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Ark...

Bought by Ohm Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This episode explores how we teach the subject of slavery in Schools.

Bought by KFOI Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 2
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Virtual “bodyswapping” helps people set aside unconscious biases towards others.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
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When one thinks of fashion forward countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo usually doesn't come to mind. But Les Sapeurs might make us feel dif...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:44
Caption: Reverend John D. Hill, Credit: Grant Chapel AME Church
Reverend Hill discusses the history of Grant Chapel, and the A.M.E. church as a whole, connecting its founding as a rejection of discrimination to ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 25:35
Caption: Child with tambor
Ben Weisz discovers the vibrant street tradition of Candombe drumming, and explores its origins among Montevideo's Afro-Uruguayan community.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:28
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There was a time when the Maasai in East Africa were few and the wildlife numerous. Moran, or warriors were required to hunt lions to prove their c...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:55
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Step dancing has become popular among black Greek organizations and is part of a tradition that goes back to African tribal rituals. It also is a w...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Imakhu, from her show, "Wednesday's African Child"
Storyteller Imakhu's popular African American version of this classic comical folktale about a hateful man who will not die. From Imakhu's one-woma...

Bought by KUT and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2010
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Suggs provides a historical perspective of Harlem that is distinctly different from the guidebooks.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2009
  • Length: 31:47
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Khadija Hussein is fourteen, and a Somali refugee living in Lewiston, Maine.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Queen Mother Imakhu gives homage to African American southern "hant" tales in this original, humorous, and eerie rendition of a true urban story.

Bought by KUT, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 3