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How Richie Havens Started Woodstock (5:20)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Richie Havens
Folk singing legend Richie Havens died Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at the age of 72 of a sudden heart attack. In this excerpt from the documentary Ba...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
Platinum Gospel "Shirley Caesar"
From: Barbara Kovacs
Series: Christian Minstrel Pioneers
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Join host Bill Bulbeck as he explores the life, times and music from the reigning "Queen of Gospel" Shirley Caesar in Episode #2 of Christian Minst...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 54:55
StoryCorps: Rowena Gore-Simmons and Kenya Gore
From: StoryCorps
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Rowena Gore-Simmons speaks with her daughter, Kenya Gore, about the year Rowena spent in prison.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
Hamlin & Chicago by Aliscia Ivy
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:25
In My World by Tomara Dickerson
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:04
A Prayer Life
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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Samuel Clifton Folks has lived in Tulsa all his life. Here, he remembers playing little league baseball as a young teenager in the mid-1960s.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
Bobby Hutcherson: Master of the vibes
From: KALW
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For nearly 50 years now, a jazz artist who now resides in Northern California has enjoyed a career as one of the great performers on the vibraphone...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 14:07
Sounds Jewish honors Dr. Martin Luther King
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
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This episode is dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It features powerful civil rights music of multiple genres dating from the 60s to now.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
Full-Time Blues Radio - Christmas Blues
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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An hour's worth of the best in new and independent Blues music for Christmas!

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Queen Jackson and Debra MacKillop
From: StoryCorps
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Queen Jackson tells her case manager, Debra MacKillop, how she became homeless.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 1
Encore Presentation of Broadway Star Lawrence Hamilton
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tin Roof Project Encore Presentations
Caption: Lawrence Hamilton
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton tells his own true story of his childhood in racially-divided south Arkansas. These encore presentations of our Tin...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Dietitian on Feeding Bob Marley Before He Died of Cancer
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
Caption: Bob Marley on Tour in Dublin July 6, 1980, Credit: Eddie Mallin via Flickr
Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
"Gil Scott-Heron: In His Own Words"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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Producer Dred-Scott Keyes looks at the life and music of poet, musician and composer, Gil Scott-Heron, who passed in New York City on May 27th.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:03
Arthur "Dooley" Wilson (Casablanca), May 30, 1953
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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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
The People Could Fly
From: Miles Tokunow
Caption: It's Superman!, Credit: by Dude Crush
This is a telling of Virginia Hamilton's American Black Folktale "The People Could Fly."

Bought by KSFR, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 4
Lil' Hot Mama Flossie Turner Lewis
From: Kate Szrom
Caption: Flossie Turner Lewis, Credit: Kate Szrom
Vaudeville entertainer Flossie Turner Lewis reflects on her life, including working with the family act in the minstrel show circuit and finally g...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI, WAMC, Public Radio Remix, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2010
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 6
StoryCorps: Tami and Dymond Hayes
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Tami Hayes talks to her daughter, Dymond, about battling breast cancer as a single parent. Dymond was 13 at the time of Tami's diagnosis.

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Fanni Green and Danyealah Green-Lemons
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Fanni Green tells her daughter, Danyealah(Dan - YAY - lah), about moving her mother, Pauline, into an assisted living facility, after her health be...

Bought by KWMU, KFOK-LP, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Dec 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 3
The Time Traveler: a Man, a Dream, a Machine
From: Emily Corwin
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A boy's grief led him to an extraordinary discovery...

Bought by KUT, KUOW, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2009
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 3
An Evening with Koko Taylor
From: Southwest Stages
Series: Southwest Stages
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An hour of Music & Interviews with Koko Taylor, recorded live at the 2003 KBAC Summer Blast Music Festival in Santa Fe, NM.

Bought by KMUW, Northstate Public Radio, and KGOU


  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe - Muhammad Ali
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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To be the “Greatest of All Time,” boxing legend Muhammad Ali says you have to believe in yourself.

Bought by KBBI, KBGA 89.9 FM, KWMU, and KUOW


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Van Jones
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Environmental activist and White House advisor Van Jones believes in making his late father proud.

  • Added: May 07, 2009
  • Length: 04:05
Aha Moment: Underground Railroad
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KZYX, Public Radio Remix, KUNM and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 7
9. Dawud Raamah, dentist and soul singer
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How (Seattle) Musicians Pay the Rent
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Dayjob is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
Cliff - A Tribute to My Father
From: Jacob C. Norman
Series: Remembering Remus
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Reflections on My Father

  • Added: Jun 16, 2008
  • Length: 12:54