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A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood: A Musical Journey in the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
From: WQXR
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood
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...

Bought by WZEN.org, KHEN-LP, Spokane Public Radio, KRCB-FM, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 16
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
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
STAIRSTEPS Stories! VOL. 2 (Cubie Burke): The Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Cubie Burke (with Christina Johnson with the Dance Theatre of Harlem), Credit: http://www.dancephotolibrary.com/dance.php
The "FIVE STAIRSTEPS and CUBIE" was a family pop act who released hit records from 1968 to 1969 on both Curtom and Buddha Records. CUBIE BURKE was ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2011
  • Length: 48:54
The Ashford & Simpson Story (Celebrating the Life of Nick Ashford) Part #3
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Ashford & Simpson
The musical story of "ASHFORD & SIMPSON", today plus the celebration of the life of NICHOLAS ASHFORD (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011). ASHFORD & SIM...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 55:34
A Conversation with NEA Jazz Master, Ron Carter
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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NEA Jazz Master Ron Carter, bassist/cellist/educator extraordinaire, talks about his career playing jazz and classical music.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:22
A Conversation with Chuck Brown
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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Do you feel like busting loose? NEA Heritage Fellow Chuck Brown talks about his career, from honing his chops in prison in Lorton, Virginia, to dev...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:49
A Conversation with Hank Jones
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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NEA Jazz Master Hank Jones reflects on his marvelous career tickling the ivories.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 24:53
STAIRSTEPS Stories! VOL. 2 (Alohe Burke): The Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: The Five Stairsteps (Alohe J. Burke - far right), Credit: Curtom & Buddah Records 1969
This is the story of THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS from the only female member of the group. ALOHE BURKE who now goes by RAMI is the only sister of this famo...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 54:31
The poet Sonia Sanchez
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features
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Sonia Sanchez broke literary ground during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
The Best of Clarence Clemons (58:00 / 53:00 / 29:00)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Clarence Clemons (left) with Bruce Springsteen From Born To Run Album Jacket
Saxman Clarence Clemons, original member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, died from complications following a stroke, June 18, 2011 at the age...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, KMXT, KSUT, KBBI, KWMR-FM and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 16
Josh White: The Music The Man (Part B)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Judy White
Interview and discussion on the subject of the legendary JOSH WHITE with his son JOSH WHITE, Jr. his daughter JUDY WHITE-GOARD and his granddaughte...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2011
  • Length: 53:43
STAIRSTEPS Stories! VOL. 1 (Part A): The Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: The Five Stairsteps & Cubie (1969)
PART A (1st hour) of Volume #1 of the Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps. Joining Howard Burchette is Clarence Burke, Jr., Clarence Burke, Sr. and...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:04
OPEN SOURCE: The Great Migration that Changed America - Isabel Wilkerson
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Series: Winter 2010: Featured Shows
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Isabel Wilkerson is the epic tale teller of the Great Migration of Southern black people that remade America — sound, substance and spirit — in the...

Bought by KWMR-FM, WCAI / WNAN, 90.5 WSNC, WSKG, WRPI and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 6
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Awadagin Pratt (Role Model)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
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For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...

Bought by WUIS, Iowa Public Radio, WMUK, Wyoming Public Radio, WGUC and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 6
The First Family of Soul! - Step By Step By Step
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
Caption: The 5 Stairsteps & Cubie
The Five Stairsteps, The 5 Stairsteps & Cubie, The Stairsteps, The Invisible Mans Band and Keni Burke are the First Family of Soul. They performed ...

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
HOB Radio: Memphis
From: Ben Manilla
Series: House of Blues Radio Hour
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Elwood takes a trip to Graceland!

Bought by Northstate Public Radio, KEOS, WRNC-LP, WNCU, and WXXI


  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
My Favorite Things at 50
From: Robin Washington
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This year is the 50th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things." Celebrate it with this exploration of how the Broadway tu...

Bought by KSFR, WAMC, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KBEM


  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 4
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
HOB Radio: Gospel And The Blues!
From: Ben Manilla
Series: House of Blues Radio Hour
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The Blues roots of Gospel and vice versa!

Bought by KEOS, KFOK-LP, WNCU, and WXXI


  • Added: May 17, 2010
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Blind Willy Johnson
From: Thom Butler
Series: Blues Routes
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In time for Holy Week, we open with a piece on Blind Willy Johnson, a Texas street preacher who created the quintessential Good Friday blues gospel...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 07:28
Strange Fruit
From: Thom Butler
Series: Blues Routes
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For our fourth show we take on one of the most difficult topics to ever be expressed in popular music. Racial relations... and the ugly history of ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 07:30
Gate - American Music... Texas Style
From: Thom Butler
Series: Blues Routes
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Our second show features a look at the man that Frank Zappa called his all-time favorite guitar player, Clarence Gatemouth Brown.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: 07:26
SOUL TIME (Part B)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
Caption: Love Unlimited
This is a good mixture of music from the Sound of Philadelphia Soul to the funky James Brown sound, to the productions of Barry White and to the so...

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: Jan 21, 2010
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 1