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On this episode of Blues Unlimited, join us as we examine the working life in story and song. From hard times trying to find work in the Great Depr...
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 00:29:35
Robert Battle discusses his first season as artistic head of the Alvin Ailey company. [33:04]
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 00:33:04
Wisconsin's most committed Obama 2012 organizers headed to Madison this weekend for eight hours of training on everything from building a neighborh...
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 00:03:37
Hiromi Uehara and Akiko Yano, a new in-concert duet album only issued in Japan
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 7
This is a music program honoring the history of the African American soldier through song.
The program includes three individual sets, and includ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Feb 05, 2012
- Length: 00:50:18
- Purchases: 1
From WQXR
In this hour-long special from WQXR and WNYC, host Terrance McKnight interweaves musical examples with Dr. King's own speeches and sermons to illus...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 00:58:00
A portrait of Hazel Scott (1920-1981), the wife of late Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and a Julliard-trained pianist who performed in some o...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 00:58:59
Langston Hughes, an enduring icon of the Harlem Renaissance, is best-known for his written work, which wedded his fierce dedication to social justi...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 1
Featuring funky bassist Frank Russell, a new album "Circle Without End"
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 8
Is a person with one black parent and one white parent black or white? Or neither? Can a person choose what race to live as, or does the world forc...
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 00:53:59
- Purchases: 2
A well-meaning illustration in a children's book sparks controversy over segregation in the nation's capital in the 1930s.
Bought by WAMC and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 00:07:41
- Purchases: 2
We invited Bloomington’s Safe and Civil City director, Ms. Beverly Calender-Anderson to join us and provide an overview of the exciting and informa...
- Added: Jan 30, 2012
- Length: 00:56:54
An American classic about life in Harlem in the 1960's.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUT, KMUN, KKRN, Nevada Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 30, 2012
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 7
America’s forgotten first African-American World
Champion cycles his way to international fame at the
turn of the 20th century.
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 00:02:37
America’s first African-American heavyweight boxing
champion Jack Johnson challenges auto-racing champ
Barney Oldfield... on the racetrack in pre-W...
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 00:02:43
Two undefeated heavyweight boxing
champions capture the imagination of a polarized
America on March 8, 1971.
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 00:02:46
Equal Time Series Host Martha Burk explores the life of Coretta Scott King with biographer Barbara Reynolds, a founding editor of USA Today. Burk...
Bought by KAZU
- Added: Jan 26, 2012
- Length: 00:56:48
- Purchases: 1
We're back with an hour's worth of the best in new and independent Blues music on radio. This week's episode is jam packed, and also features a hig...
- Added: Jan 26, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
From KMOJ-FM
Gary Hines is the current director of the Grammy Award winning ensemble Sounds of Blackness. He has been leading the group since 1971.
- Added: Jan 25, 2012
- Length: 00:30:10
Music from Etta James and Johnny Otis who died in January 2012
Bought by KEOS, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WSLR, WMHT, KKRN and more
- Added: Jan 25, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 9
We remember the remarkable life and amazing career of one of the greatest female performers in music history, the legendary Miss Etta James, who pa...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 24, 2012
- Length: 00:05:00
- Purchases: 1
: Public school students and parents are seeing some changes this year in the way their schools handle bullying. That’s because of a law passed by...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 24, 2012
- Length: 00:07:30
- Purchases: 1
The third and final hour devoted to the symphonic music of William Grant Still, designed for broadcast during Black History Month (February), but c...
- Added: Jan 23, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
This week on the show, it's a look at the life and music of Louis Armstrong with the good people of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Lo...
Bought by WCMU Public Radio, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, KPVL, and WEMU
- Added: Jan 23, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 4
