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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
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
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
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
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
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
More Prey, Fewer Predators
- Added: Jul 10, 2019
- Length: 02:00
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
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: Feb 07, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
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
Old time blues, jazz, & traditional music prodigy Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton performs live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Ark...
- Added: Apr 26, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
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
Virtual “bodyswapping” helps people set aside unconscious biases towards others.
- Added: Dec 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
Suggs provides a historical perspective of Harlem that is distinctly different from the guidebooks.
- Added: Aug 14, 2009
- Length: 31:47
Khadija Hussein is fourteen, and a Somali refugee living in Lewiston, Maine.
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 08:12
- Purchases: 1
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