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Playwright Chirstina Anderson
From: New Letters on the Air
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Christina Anderson is an up-and-coming playwright in New York, but she grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. She discusses the importance of transformat...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Strange Fruit: Voices of a Lynching
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:22
Can You Say This Word?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses the N-word with law professor, Randall Kennedy, author of “Nigger-the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.”

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
StoryCorps: James Clyburn and Syndey Reed
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: James Clyburn and Sydney Reed
South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn talks with his granddaughter Sydney Reed about his career in politics.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
Episode 5: Badey & Martini/Part 1 - The Bobby Pickles Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: The Bobby Pickles Podcast
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The band is finally back together! After a year and a half of hating each other, friends Rob Piccirillo "Bobby Pickles", David Bader "Mr. Badey" an...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
The 47% Mixdown-Mitt's Mess
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
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"The 47% Mix" with Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Ethel Waters, Ry Cooder, Menomena, The Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby, Alan Price, a...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 19:31
  • Purchases: 1
Gamun-Pyul
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Flushing 2010
Caption: Rayon Wright with K-Pop Artist JYP
18 year old Caribbean American, Rayon Wright, sets out to be a K-Pop producer.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 1
Steve Edwards Soul Show Edition (13) Best Of The 1st Qtr plus UK Spotlight In Soul Featuring Loose Ends Hr 1
From: Steve Edwards
Series: Steve Edwards Soul Show 2012 Series
Caption: Host/Producer, Credit: Steve Edwards
Its a musical celebration with the songs that took us through the 1st Quarter of the 2012 series.Soul In Jazz Pt 2 and The Final Of Our UK Spotligh...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:18
Gordy Ryan says Play a Drum
From: This Land Press
Series: Just Passing Through
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Gordy Ryan has been passing through Tulsa since the mid-80's when he was first invited here by an African student group at TU to give an African dr...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2
May 19th, 2011 Shomburg Symposium on Malcolm X: A Life of Re-Invention.
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a symposium on Malcolm X, held at the Shomburg Center after the release of the late Manning Marable's book,...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:09
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Johnson
From: StoryCorps
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Mary Johnson speaks with Oshea Israel, who killed her son in 1993.

Bought by Wisconsin Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: May 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 2
OPEN SOURCE: History's Tragic Irony with Teju Cole and Simon Schama
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Caption: Teju Cole
Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole is our idea of a post-imperial global mind in motion. His celebrated first novel, "Open City," is about a solita...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Sinner's Crossroads Episode 9
From: WFMU
Series: Sinner's Crossroads
Caption: Sinner's Crossroads
Americana and rare gospel music from the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. Complete playlist below.

Bought by KPVL, KPVL, and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
HOB Radio: Chicago Blues
From: Ben Manilla
Series: House of Blues Radio Hour
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Where the blues went electric! A tribute to Chicago Blues.

Bought by WNCU, KEOS, Northstate Public Radio, KHNS, WGDR and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Fishbowl Theory
From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind
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There seems to be an obsession with youth that is prevalent in Hip-Hop culture today. Its originators are now in their thirties and fourties, yet t...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 15:14
  • Purchases: 1
"Man In The Mirror: Reflecting On How Man Reflected On MJ"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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PERFORMANCE ARTIST, KANENE HOLDER, WAS ONE OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SPONTANEOUSLY GATHERED OUTSIDE OF HARLEM’S FAMED APOLLO THEATERN FOR AN IMPRO...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2010
  • Length: 57:43
The Cult of Luck
From: Ayana Contreras
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Ayana Contreras explores the motivation behind "playing the numbers", or the lottery.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 09:46
Looking for Work: A History of Unemployment
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Work Promotes Confidence, Credit: Library of Congress
This Labor Day, Americans will commemorate the legendary gumption of the American worker by taking some much-deserved time off from work. Americans...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KUOW, WFPL News, KUMD, WPTC and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 30
THE LANGUAGE OF RACE
From: Voices of Our World
Series: Black History Month Programs
Caption: John McWhorter
Does the conventional language used to discuss race actually impede our attempts to reach mutual understanding? We discuss the language of race wit...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WTIP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 2
The Children of Children Keep Coming
From: WNPR
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Through story and song, author Russell Goings has adapted his epic poem “The Children of Children Keep Coming” into an hour-long spoken word perfor...

Bought by KUNM, WNIJ, Vermont Public Radio, WYSO, KRCB-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2010
  • Length: 51:01
  • Purchases: 14
The RARE EARTH story with Gil Bridges Vol. I
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Rare Earth - Fill Your Head: The Studio Albums 1969-1974, Credit: Hip-O Select
Rare Earth is know for their hits; Get Ready, I Just Want To celebrate, I Know I'm Losing You, Big John Is My Name, Hey Big Brother, What'd I Say, ...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2009
  • Length: 57:33
Voices at an Exhibition: Coke Covers the World
From: David Schulman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Visitors to the Smithsonian American Art Museum describe what they see in a a quilt created in 1992 by Otesia Harper … “Coke Covers the World.”

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 03:23
Barack Obama-The Remix
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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Barack Obama-The Campaign for President

Bought by KUCB, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, WMNF, KRCB-FM, KACU and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 54:17
  • Purchases: 23
Black Republicans Fight for Their Political Voice
From: Will Wright
Caption: grand old party
African-American Republicans sound off on their platform while Obama runs.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:44
Legal Emancipation
From: Radio Rookies
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At 15 emancipation has brought both freedom and hardship for Radio Rookie Jordan Teklay. Now 17, he's trying to understand what it means to be an a...

Bought by The Story, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 4