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FOLK SALAD AIRING 2-18-2024
From: SCOTT Aycock
Series: Folk Salad- Certified Organic Music
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Folk Salad celebrates Black History Month by featuring all black artists still with us and still making music. Artists like Blind Boys of Alabama,...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Concierto for Feb. 23-29, 2024
From: WDAV Classical Public Radio
Series: Concierto
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Concierto presents classical music in English and in Spanish. Classical favorites performed by Hispanic artists are alternated with music by Spanis...

Bought by WUFT, WPVM 103.7, KMUN, WFIU, WRTI and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 45
Modern Notebook for February 25 - March 2, 2024 (Ep. 234)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook
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On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Just a fraction of the music written by composer Julia Perry survives in a way that we’re able to ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Morehead State Public Radio, KECG, GCR (Global Community Radio), Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 7
Modern Notebook for February 18 - 24, 2024 (Ep. 233)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook
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On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Shawn Okpebholo’s work “lullaby | ballad | spiritual” is a work in which he sought to highlight the r...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KECG, WDAV Classical Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 6
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
Tulsa's Black History Saturday School
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ribbon cutting at Tulsa's EduRec Youth Center for Black History Saturdays. , Credit: Credit: Black History Saturdays
When Oklahoma passed a law limiting discussion of race in classrooms, Tulsa activist Kristi Williams rallied the community to create Black History ...

Bought by KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Modern Notebook for February 11 - 17, 2024 (Ep. 232)
From: WSMR
Series: Modern Notebook
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On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, we kick off a series of programs for Black History Month highlighting excellent music by Black com...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Morehead State Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KECG, KCNP and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:32
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #718 - R&B Influences: Lionel Hampton
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
Lionel Hampton's big band was a training ground for so many of the all-time great musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Joe Mo...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KCSM, WHRV, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
598: Tracy K. Smith, Saeed Hones, and Meklit, 2/2/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This Black History Month Special features 22nd Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-songwriter Meklit.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
Building Back Black Wall Street
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021
Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
0373: Reel Music: Celebrating Black History Month, 1/29/2024
From: WDAV Classical Public Radio
Series: Reel Music
Caption: Reel Music logo
February is Black History Month. We'll sample scores from three of Hollywood's most successful black composers: Quincy Jones, Mervyn Warren, and Te...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
"Black History Month Special" with Tracy K. Smith, Saeed Jones, and Meklit
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire Specials
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This Black History Month special episode features the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-so...

Bought by KUT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WLPR , WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: B.C. Franklin (right), I.H. Spears (left) and Effie Thompson (center) filing insurance claims for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in a Red Cross tent. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin
In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
AG 24-05: The Two Williams: Spencer and Clarence, 1/29/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week on Afterglow, we explore the songs of two unrelated black jazz composers from the early 20th century: Spencer Williams and Clarence Willi...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Civics 101: The True Story Of Reconstruction
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
Right to Recreation: The History of African American Leisure Sites
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Historian Alison Rose Jefferson discusses her book ‘Living The California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During The Jim Crow Era’. She demon...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
AG 23-08: Live Nina!, 2/20/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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Nina Simone, the “High Priestess of Soul,” was an enigmatic and eccentric figure in the world of jazz. This week on Afterglow, we’ll feature Simone...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
TSSAAPR230201: Film Scores of the Shaft/Superfly Era, plus a Motown juggernaut
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: see Mike's film workshop at soulshowmike.org
Join Mike Canton for a feature on the great soundtracks of Shaft, Superfly, Coffy and more. Also, remember Motown hitmaker Barrett Strong through ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 1
"Black History Month Special" with Sam Jay, Jelani Memory, Leyla McCalla, and Black Violin"
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire Specials
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This "Black History Month" special episode features comedian and TV writer Sam Jay, publisher Jelani Memory, and music from Leyla McCalla and Black...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
546: Sam Jay, Jelani Memory, Leyla McCalla, and Black Violin., 2/3/2023
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This "Black History Month" special episode features comedian and TV writer Sam Jay, publisher Jelani Memory, and music from Leyla McCalla and Black...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Crossings
From: Classical California
Series: Classical California Specials
Caption: Lara Downes, Credit: Shervin Lainez
A special one-hour program for Black History Month, celebrating the music of Black composers whose inspirations and innovations have helped define ...

Bought by KCUR, WCQS, WHRV, and WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Jan 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Black Enough
From: The Stoop
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What does it mean to be 'Black enough'?

Bought by WLPR , WRGY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WFDD, KALW and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 38
Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington’s Historic Jazz Symphony
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1943, Duke Ellington debuted a landmark 43-minute musical portrayal of the African-American experience at Carnegie Hall. We'll hear music from i...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUW, WVIA, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
Stick Fly
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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How do you turn a family weekend into a disaster?

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 35
RDD: Valerie Thompson
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Valerie Thompson is a native Toledoan and a graphic designer at ProMedica, but she's more than a graphic designer, she's the environmental designer...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1