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Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the great soul interpreters of her generation”, Bettye LaVette is a vocalist who can take any type of song and make it completely her own. Bettye is one of very few of her contemporaries who were recording during the birth of soul music in the 1960s and is...

Our guest today on the Radical Imagination is Bruce Adolphe. He's known to millions of Americans as the Piano Puzzler on American Public Media's Performance Today.

Jim Vrettos, Martin Stolar, Carl Dix, and Rev. Stephen Phelps reunite on the 10th anniversary of their conviction of disorderly conduct due to a protest outside a Harlem police precinct against the NYPD's controversial stop-and frisk policy.

CW-One Music-Group With Larry Campbell Former Dir. Of A&R of Jive/RCA & The Jerry Fontillo TheBigjoka of the Superugly Movement hosting A Listening Party For LXXS Upcoming Single Release titled: "Superwoman".

In this two-segment episode, Jim Vrettos talks to Jonathan Soto, who is running for NYS Assembly District 82 and shares is program.  In the second segment, Manuel Gomez and Gloria Ortiz talk about an investigation about the dead of Ortiz's son while in the military.

On this episode we are profiling co-host and co-founder of this show, almost seven years ago; Stanley Aronowitz, a political activist and cultural critic, an advocate for a reinvigorated labor movement and a professor of sociology, cultural studies and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Jordan McLean is a New York City-based composer, arranger, bandleader, trumpeter, producer and educator. McLean has been active in the professional music world since 1995, having performed, recorded and collaborated with a multitude of musicians, ensembles and performance organizations around the...

Host Jim Vrettos and co-host Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove have a conversation with guest Lisa Sharon Harper, Founder and President of Freedom Road, to analyze if organized religion is the opiate of the people that hinders us from self-emancipation, freedom and happiness, among other related topics.

Black radio stations were crucial to the success of the civil rights movement in Birmingham Alabama during the 1950s and 60's. Our guest on today's show is Bob Friedman who is the founder of The Birmingham Black Radio Museum.  Bob developed this project.  to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the...