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Biedenharn | A Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: Biedenharn | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: On a warm summer day in Vicksburg back in 1894, Joseph Biedenharn changed history. The operator of the Biedenharn Candy Company, Joseph was selling customers lots of glasses of a popular new soda fountain drink called Coca Cola. It occurred to Joseph that if he could put the drink in bottles, he could sell even more.

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Robert Johnson | A Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: Robert Johnson | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: On June 20, 1937, Robert Johnson completed his final recording session, cutting ten tracks, including "Hell Hound on My Trail." Less than a year later, Johnson would be dead at age 27. In his short life, he recorded only 29 songs.
Born in Hazlehurst, and raised near Robinsonville, Johnson didn't impress his early listeners. But over time he developed a distinctive guitar style, and an expressive voice.

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Medgar Evers | A Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: Medgar Evers | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Medgar Evers was born into the Mississippi of Jim Crow segregation, and died trying to bring about change.

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Scott Barretta and Joe York | Conversations | MPB

Title: Scott Barretta and Joe York | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Mississippi blues aficionado and writer Scott Barretta and filmmaker Joe York team up to produce the documentary Shake ‘Em on Down. The film explores the life and music of blues legend Mississippi Fred McDowell.

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Title: Highway 61 | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Highway 61
We travel Highway 61, famous worldwide as being the Blues Highway. Between where it enters the state down south in Louisiana to where it exits the state into Tennessee, Highway 61 touches just about every geographical, historical and cultural feature in the state, as well as blues. Ride along and see for yourself.

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Art for Art's Sake | Mississippi Roads | MPB

Title: Art for Art's Sake | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Art for Art’s Sake
It’s a one night stand in a motel in Oxford as we take in an art show. We feature Mississippi artist William R. Hollingsworth whose focus was on painting Mississippi scenes and Peter’s Pottery in Mound Bayou. Join Walt Grayson on the next Mississippi Roads.

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Title: Greg Iles | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Novelist Greg Iles of Natchez is out with the third installment in his trilogy of books that began with the New York bestseller Natchez Burning. We’re talking to Greg about Mississippi Blood and what the future holds in store now for this prolific writer.

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Title: Laura Lee Lewis | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Laura Lee Lewis looks to the future as she prepares to relinquish her crown to the next Miss Mississippi. Laura talks about the challenges she faced as a young girl and the courage she found as a young woman to achieve her dreams.

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Jefferson Davis | A Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: Jefferson Davis | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Born this week in 1808, he was a West Point graduate, a cotton planter, a member of the U.S. House and Senate. He was a hero of the Mexican War, and later served as Secretary of War.
But the world knows Jefferson Davis best as the first and only president of the Confederacy.

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Mississippi Encyclopedia | Conversations | MPB

Title: Mississippi Encyclopedia | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Conversations # 1612 Charles Reagan Wilson & Ted Ownby

University of Mississippi professors Charles Reagan Wilson and Ted Ownby give an overview of a newly released book called The Mississippi Encyclopedia.

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Title: Corinth | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In 1862, Corinth, Mississippi, was in the crosshairs. Both the Union and the Confederacy recognized the strategic significance of the two major rail lines which intersected there. These north/south and east/west lines were vital for moving troops and supplies.

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Mississippi Shakedown | Amped & Wired | MPB

Title: Mississippi Shakedown | Amped & Wired | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Mississippi Shakedown (Hattiesburg, MS)
Fusing raw blues and garage rock influences, The Mississippi Shakedown roars through their set with unrestrained enthusiasm.

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Places You Didn't Know Were in Mississippi | Mississippi Roads | MPB

Title: Places You Didn't Know Were in Mississippi | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Places You Didn’t Know Were in Mississippi
Strange and unique places in Mississippi that you didn’t know where there are the subject of this episode. We feature an airplane recovery yard in a very unique place, The International Museum of Muslim Cultures in Jackson and Artist, Johnny Knight’s Treehouse in Mendenhall.

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Jimmie Rodgers | A Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: Jimmie Rodgers | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Jimmie Rodgers was born in Pine Springs, Mississippi in 1897. At 13 he went to work for the railroad, where he learned to play guitar and heard music from many different traditions.

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Title: Los Brown | Amped & Wired | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Los Brown (Jackson, MS)
R&B and Soul singer Carlos “Los” Brown has won over fans with a smooth vocal style that began to take shape at the age of 5.

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Growing Up Mississippi | Mississippi Roads | MPB

Title: Growing Up Mississippi | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Growing Up Mississippi
Young people are the theme for this episode. We interview the young founders of The Afterglow Film Festival in Grenada, sisters Isabella and Katrina Kinder, who started the event when they were still in high school. The Mississippi Boychoir shows us that they learn more than just singing and a story on a National Junior Pool champ in the little town of Camden who makes playing pool a family affair.

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Title: Paul Lacoste | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Former SEC and Pro linebacker, Paul Lacoste, is a now an expert in physical fitness training. But his road to success has had plenty of bumps along the way.

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B. B. King | A Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: B. B. King | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Two years ago this week, legendary Blues musician B. B. King died.
Born Riley B. King on a cotton plantation near Itta Bena in 1925, he was a self-taught guitarist who performed on street corners, in church choirs, and juke joints. His nickname, “B.B”, stands for “Blues Boy.”

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Title: Hugh Mitchell | Amped & Wired | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Hugh Mitchell (Nashville, TN)
Hugh Mitchell’s skillfully crafted songs blend many influences, with his Southern upbringing shining through as a common denominator.

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Reaching for the Stars | Mississippi Roads | MPB

Title: Reaching for the Stars | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Reaching for the Stars
We reach for the stars in this episode of Mississippi Roads. We have a conversation with Apollo thirteen astronaut and Biloxi native, Fred Haise. Fred talks about his career and his historical, life threating flight in space. We peer into the world of cosmic artist, Edwin Faughn who paints planetary images for national science magazines as well as NASA and we gaze at the stars with the Jackson Astronomical Association

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Title: Rod Paige | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Former U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige returns to his alma mater to serve as interim president for Jackson State University.

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Jim Henson | A Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: Jim Henson | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: On this week in 1955, a puppet frog named Kermit first appeared on TV. Kermit's
creator was 19-year old Jim Henson from Leland. Today, he is best remembered as
the creator of The Muppets, that incredible family of puppets who make us laugh,
and occasionally cry.

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Title: Rock Eupora | Amped & Wired | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Rock Eupora (Nashville, TN)
Nashville based Rock Eupora blends fuzzed out rock hooks with pop melodies. Their performance features songs from their recent album, "Soon the Sun Will Come."

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200 Years of Mississippi | Mississippi Roads | MPB

Title: 200 Years of Mississippi | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Mississippi celebrates its bicentennial in 2017 and Mississippi Roads takes a look at Mississippi’s history. From a vast area populated by Native Americans and shaped by the European Colonial Era to statehood, we take a look at what and who we are today and a hint of who we are becoming. We also feature a story on the first capital building Texada, located in Natchez and the Key Brother’s historical flight over Meridian which resonates even to this day.

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School Desegregation | Conversations | MPB

Title: School Desegregation | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court issue a ruling in the landmark Brown verses Board of Education case which outlawed segregation in this country. In this edition of Conversations we’re talking about the current state of school integration in Mississippi with NAACP President Derrick Johnson, Rex Buffington who is the director of the Stennis Center for Public Service and Dr. Phil Burchfield, Superintendent of the Clinton Public School District.

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Freedom Riders | A Thread Through Time] | MPB

Title: Freedom Riders | A Thread Through Time] | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: On May 4, 1961, young black and white activists left Washington, D.C. to travel by bus into the South. Along the way, these "Freedom Riders" would test local compliance with federal laws against racial segregation.

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Title: Silas | Amped & Wired | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Silas (Jackson, MS)

Hip Hop artist Silas has taken the independent path to success, with songs including "Gullah Gullah Island" going viral to find an audience.

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Title: Leslie Schwartz | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:51
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Holocaust survivor Leslie Schwartz travels to Hattiesburg to pay tribute to a unit of African American soldiers from Mississippi who helped liberate him from a World War II concentration camp in Germany.

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European Explorers | Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: European Explorers | Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, European explorers ventured into the area we now know as Mississippi. It was during this week in 1581, in the far northwestern corner of our state, that Spanish soldiers under Hernando de Soto became the first Europeans to see the Mississippi River.

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Title: Seth Power | Amped & Wired | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Seth Power (Brandon, MS)
Singer/Songwriter Seth Power is one of a new generation of Mississippi musicians carving out a niche with his soulful voice and arrangements.

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Title: Poetry Out Loud 2017 | MPB
Runtime: 56:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The 2017 Poetry Out Loud Mississippi Finals were held on March 9th at Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson. Nine students from across the state participated in the Mississippi State Poetry Out Loud finals. The top three winners were:

1st Place – Lawson Marchetti - Jackson Preparatory School
2nd Place – D’Angelo Jefferson - Pascagoula High School
3rd Place – Amber Jackson - St. Martin High School

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1927 Flood | A Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: 1927 Flood | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: On April 21, 1927, a district official wired a brief message to the head of the Army Corps of Engineers: "Levee broke at ferry landing, Mounds, Mississippi, eight a.m. Crevasse will overflow entire Mississippi Delta."
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Title: Passing Parade | Amped & Wired | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Passing Parade (Jackson, MS)
Started as a side project to provide an outlet for songs that didn’t fit elsewhere, Passing Parade blends low-fi fun and fuzzed out rock with a variety of other influences.

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Title: Passing Parade | Amped & Wired | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Passing Parade (Jackson, MS)
Started as a side project to provide an outlet for songs that didn’t fit elsewhere, Passing Parade blends low-fi fun and fuzzed out rock with a variety of other influences.

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Title: Randall Pinkston | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Longtime journalist Randall Pinkston shares war stories, both literally and figuratively, of his career as a correspondent for CBS News and Al Jazeera America. The Yazoo County native got his start in television back in the early 70’s as a reporter & anchor for WLBT-TV in Jackson.

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Title: Melvin Williams | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Melvin Williams of Smithdale, Mississippi is widely known as one of the most prolific gospel performers in the world. He has spent a life time writing, performing and producing music, either as a solo artist or with his brothers in the famous trio known as the Williams Brothers. During our conversation with Melvin, you’ll find out he has no plans to slow down anytime soon.

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Mississippians in Space | Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: Mississippians in Space | Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: This week, we learn about three Mississippian Astronauts: Fred Haise of Biloxi, Richard Truly of Fayette, and Donald Peterson of Winona.

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Title: Lisa Mills | Amped & Wired | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Lisa Mills (Mobile, AL)
From roots planted in the deep South, Lisa Mills has gained worldwide acclaim for her soulful blues sound.

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Title: Andrew Lack | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Why would the chairman of NBC News choose Mississippi as home to an innovative approach to news coverage? We’re talking to Andrew Lack about his vision for the digital-based, nonprofit operation known as Mississippi Today.

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Holyfield Case | A Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: Holyfield Case | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In 1978, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act, a law to stop the excessive
removal of Native American children from their families and culture. Soon the new
law was put to the test in Mississippi, and the result was a milestone for Native
American rights.
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Title: March 31st | @ISSUE | MPB
Runtime: 26:46
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Get the latest of the 2017 Mississippi legislative session.
Host Wilson Stribling brings you the issues discussed at the Capitol each week, with analysis from Democrat Brandon Jones and Republican Austin Barbour.
Fridays at 7:30 p.m. on MPB TV.

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Title: Growing Up Well | Southern Remedy | MPB
Runtime: 27:17
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A healthy adulthood starts in childhood. Mississippi's children face numerous challenges in health that decrease their chances of growing into healthy adults.

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Title: Grady Champion | Conversations | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Grammy Award winner Grady Champion talks about his successful career as a blues musician
and life in Canton, Ms where he grew up as the youngest of 28 siblings.

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William Grant Still | A Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: William Grant Still | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: On this week in 1949, the New York City Opera premiered "Troubled Island" by the composer and Woodville, Mississippi native William Grant Still. This marked the first time a major American opera company had ever presented the work of an African-American composer.

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Title: March 24th | @ISSUE | MPB
Runtime: 26:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Get the latest on the 2017 Mississippi legislative session.
Host Wilson Stribling brings you the issues discussed at the Capitol each week, with analysis this week from Representative David Baria (D), and Former Chief of Staff for Gov. Phil Bryant, Republican Lucien Smith.

Airs Fridays at 7:30 p.m. on MPB TV.

MSU Basketball | A Thread Through Time | MPB

Title: MSU Basketball | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Learn more about the basketball game that changed history.

Title: March 17th | @ISSUE | MPB
Runtime: 26:50
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Get the latest of the 2017 Mississippi legislative session.
Host Wilson Stribling brings you the issues discussed at the Capitol each week, with analysis from Democrat Brandon Jones and Republican Austin Barbour.
Fridays at 7:30 p.m. on MPB TV.

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Title: 2017 | MIssissippi Spelling Bee | MPB
Runtime: 3:59:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
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Title: Novelists | A Thread Through Time | MPB
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Mississippi is one of America’s most fertile creative regions. Literary giants like Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Richard Wright and Eudora Welty all hail from our state, as well as contemporary literary figures like John Grisham, Jesmyn Ward, Natasha Trethewey and Richard Ford. Mississippi may have more established writers per capita than any other state in the nation.

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Title: March 10th | @ISSUE | MPB
Runtime: 27:05
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Get the latest of the 2017 Mississippi legislative session.
Host Wilson Stribling brings you the issues discussed at the Capitol each week, with analysis from Democrat Brandon Jones and Republican Austin Barbour.
Fridays at 7:30 p.m. on MPB TV.

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