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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 1
Isaac L. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson was a multi instrumentalist jazz musician who specialized on banjo. Even when most musicians had stuffed their banjo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
It's certainly Oscar material. But if you are interested in the real story of the 13th Amendment and the actual legacy of the Lincoln presidency, l...
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 01:00:05
A review of the Rwandan genocide drama.
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 01:59
Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker were the most recognizable expatriates on the Parisian seen in the 1920s. If you've seen the movie "Midnight in P...
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 19:53
Dom Flemons and other members of the Carolina Chocolate Drops hooked up on an internet group called “Black Banjo: Then and Now.”
Bought by KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 1
Legendary soul singer Howard Tate began singing gospel and had extraordinary success with his solo secular debut in 1966 with the album “Get It Whi...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 1
Born Umpeylia Marsema Balinton in 1935, she was raised in San Francisco and hung out with Etta James. Like Etta, she was discovered by Johnny Otis...
Bought by Northstate Public Radio and WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 1
Denise LaSalle is the reigning “Queen of Soul Blues,” and she’s not stepping down any time soon.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 57:00
Born in Drew, Mississippi, and now living in East St. Louis, Boo Boo Davis proudly says, “I am the blues.”
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 57:00
Harmonica legend Billy Boy Arnold is one of the creators of the Chicago blues sound and was a major influence on the British blues invasion of the ...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 57:00
Bettye LaVette, the “Great Lady of Soul,” is so much more than a soul singer, melding all forms of American music.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 57:00
A victim of polio, Delta blues singer Cedell Davis developed a unique style of playing slide guitar with a table knife.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 57:00
An exploration through the life and times of singer, activist, athlete and entertainer Paul Robeson.
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
Roberts, played by Russell Crowe in the movie, is now a defense attorney, tells how drug dealers used publicity from the movie to sell their products.
- Added: Aug 14, 2009
- Length: 34:47
Dred-Scott Keyes interviews author Peter Guralnick about the relationship between African-Americans and Elvis Presley.
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Mar 18, 2009
- Length: 23:53
- Purchases: 1
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 54:15
Rediscovering a musician's career
- Added: Feb 17, 2009
- Length: 07:16
Historical look at R&B music
- Added: Apr 29, 2008
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 5
A look at the history of R&B music.
- Added: Apr 29, 2008
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 4
An exploration of early R&B music
- Added: Apr 24, 2008
- Length: 59:23
- Purchases: 4
Exploration of Rythm and Blues from the 50's-70's
- Added: Apr 24, 2008
- Length: 59:16
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Jun 04, 2007
- Length: 07:55
