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Beauty in the Struggle

Curated by Dele Johnson

To be black in this world is bittersweet. There are emotional highs and depressing lows. Our lives ebb and flow. These songs mirror my own black experience (a mixed-race, son of a Nigerian immigrant). Touching on a full range of music across the last 50 years, these songs, to me: are BLACKNESS

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First aired June 2020

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Homeroom — Homeroom Collective → first aired 2020 88.1 Music CHANGE — Pixie Henson → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Beauty in the Struggle — Dele Johnson → first aired 2020 88.1 Music How Are You? — Demetrius Beckham → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Flo w Bo — Bo → first aired 2020 88.1 Music lullabies for u — Giullian Gioiello → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Club:: Kenzoo — Toney Clemons → first aired 2020 88.1 Music what day is it — Annamara → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Luv letter to NYC — Caroline → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Black Jazz — Anthony Coleman → first aired 2020 88.1 Music ProntoPronto — Gabriel Noguez → first aired 2020 88.1 Music WFH — Gabby → first aired 2020 88.1 Music A Quaran'ting — Penda N'diaye → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Burning up the Bay — Vince Mak → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Raia Was Essentials — Raia Was → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Through a Plane's Window — Yasi → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Afrohaus Vibes — the.wav → first aired 2020 88.1 Music Year of 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Ambrosia Parsley → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Brooklyn Film Camera — Brooklyn Film Camera → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Deep Cuts & Belt Outs — Ella Hussle → first aired 2019 88.1 Music Live in the Nowadays — Annamara → first aired 2019 88.1 Music POWER — thatgirlne → first aired 2019 88.1 Music COVERS — Nicole LeBlanc → first aired 2019 88.1 Music NOTHING MATTERS — Annamara → first aired 2019 88.1 Music LAMENTORADIO #22 — Adipop → first aired 2019 88.1 Music TEARS IN THE CLUB — Anthony Coleman → first aired 2019 88.1 Music WHAT IF BLISS — Maya Allen → first aired 2019 88.1 Music SPLASHmtn. — Sean Rowry → first aired 2019 88.1 Music WITH MINIMAL EFFORT — Cory Katuna → first aired 2019 88.1 Music THANK YOU J DILLA — Kahlil Cezanne → first aired 2019 88.1 Music ROYAL GAME DUBAI MIX — Larry London → first aired 2019 88.1 Music FADER MIX — Stonie Blue → first aired 2019 88.1 Music MIXED BAG — Chris Bagley → first aired 2019 88.1 Music EPSOM — Jarrett Mork → first aired 2019 88.1 Music ONE GIANT REPOST RADIO 01/16/19 — YellowTech → first aired 2019 88.1 Music JANUARY 2019 — Katie Levy → first aired 2019 88.1 Music ELSEWHERE LIVE SHOW — Joyce Tang → first aired 2019 88.1 Music BOUNCE PASS 004 — Colby Spear → first aired 2019 88.1 Music ON SIGHT — Kahlil Cezanne → first aired 2019 88.1 Music COMMUTE — John G → first aired 2018 88.1 Music 1:1 — Anthony Coleman → first aired 2018 88.1 Music Oui Oui — Nicole LeBlanc → first aired 2018 88.1 Music Motherland — Kwame → first aired 2018 88.1 Music Alaska '18 - 19 — Justin Toomer → first aired 2018 88.1 Music All We Need — Harper Nelson → first aired 2018 88.1 Music Slabmix — Matt Wieting → first aired 2018 88.1 Music LRNL — Jennings "The Gent" → first aired 2018 88.1 Music PILLOW TALK VOL III — Vicki Vibe → first aired 2018 88.1 Music AFRO HOUSE MIX VOL 1 — Larry London → first aired 2018 88.1 Music SUCKER — Hex Kitten → first aired 2018 88.1 Music PULL UP IN 10 — Nas Leber → first aired 2018 88.1 Music ROCK A BYE — Sfo Lendrix → 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Soares → first aired 2019 92.5 Film Negative Space — Tiny Studios → first aired 2019 92.5 Film Here → first aired 2019 92.5 Film Dark Red — Eugen Merher → first aired 2019 92.5 Film Enough — Anna Mantzaris → first aired 2019 92.5 Film The Intelligent One — Will Desena → first aired 2019 92.5 Film TAM TAM — Greg Hackett → first aired 2019 92.5 Film THE WAY OUT — Daniel Soares → first aired 2019 92.5 Film What is Beauty — Anna Ginsburg → first aired 2019 92.5 Film Me in the Mirror — Lorena Alvarado → first aired 2019 92.5 Film THE AYES HAVE IT — Savanah Leaf → first aired 2019 92.5 Film SKAYA — Gabriel Noguez → first aired 2019 92.5 Film WISDOM 2:24 — Will Desena → first aired 2019 92.5 Film F WORD — Savanah Leaf → first aired 2019 92.5 Film BEFORE THE SPILL — Adam Wells → first aired 2019 92.5 Film OJORLEY — Gene Adu → first aired 2018 92.5 Film AGYA — Curtis Essel → first aired 2018 92.5 Film LITAS — Will Desena → first aired 2018 92.5 Film HAZARD — Jake Blackson → first aired 2024 96.9 Photo Photographs by Jude Lartey — Jude Lartey → first aired 2023 96.9 Photo Photographs by Jude Lartey — Jude Lartey → first aired 2023 96.9 Photo Photographs by Kourosh Keynejad — Kourosh Keynejad → first aired 2023 96.9 Photo Photographs by Darin Combs — Darin Combs → first aired 2022 96.9 Photo Portraiture — Lawrence Agyei → first aired 2022 96.9 Photo Black Boy Fly — Joshua Renfroe → first aired 2021 96.9 Photo Photographs by Kevin Jackson — Kevin Jackson → first aired 2021 96.9 Photo Photographs by Nicholas Caiazza — Nicholas Caiazza → first aired 2021 96.9 Photo Photographs by Riley Dengler — Riley Dengler → first aired 2021 96.9 Photo Stills From Pilgrims — Jeremy Snell → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by Jeremy Snell — Jeremy Snell → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by Gabriel Noguez — Gabriel Noguez → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by Daniel Soares — Daniel Soares → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by JORGE RIVERA — JORGE RIVERA → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by Gabriel Flores — Gabriel Flores → first aired 2020 96.9 Photo Photographs by Emir Fils-Aime — Emir Fils-Aime → first aired 2019 96.9 Photo Photographs by Kita — Kita → first aired 2019 96.9 Photo Photographs by Kevin Nolan Johnson — Kevin Nolan Johnson → first aired 2019 96.9 Photo Photographs by Bo Whitelaw — Bo Whitelaw → first aired 2018 96.9 Photo Photographs by Greg Callan — Greg Callan → first aired 2024 101.3 Word Crazy Daisy — Elana Staroselsky → first aired 2023 101.3 Word All That For Something True — Raia Was → first aired 2023 101.3 Word Friendship — Niloo Ravaei → first aired 2023 101.3 Word Resilience — Nina Iordanova → first aired 2022 101.3 Word What if the words don't exist yet? — Jared Blake → first aired 2022 101.3 Word Re-Emergence — Leala King → first aired 2021 101.3 Word Untitled — Jared Blake → first aired 2021 101.3 Word Ant Sized Ambition — Demetrius Beckham → first aired 2021 101.3 Word A Response to the Atlanta Spa Shooting — Lulu Yao Gioiello → first aired 2021 101.3 Word Peaks and Pits — Gabby Kreutter → first aired 2020 101.3 Word Untitled — Jay Z → first aired 2020 101.3 Word The Top of my Todo list — Paul Graham → first aired 2020 101.3 Word A Nature Un-Nurtured: the Black Imagination in this Moment — Justin Toomer → first aired 2020 101.3 Word Post Traumatic Growth — Leala King → first aired 2020 101.3 Word Untitled → first aired 2020 101.3 Word Choose Wonder — Brendan → first aired 2019 101.3 Word Foreword (November 2019 Issue) — Jared Blake → first aired 2019 101.3 Word Foreword (International Women's Month Issue) — Leala King → first aired 2018 101.3 Word POLAROID PLEASE — Isata Kamara →

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