PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality
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In 1968, Black American athlete Tommie Smith set a new world record. He became a gold medalist when he raced to win the 200-meter event at the Summ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 20:52
In November 2019, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock brings his mythological “Moundverse” to Miami. Locust Projects gives over the entire s...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 18:03
We meet Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford—known for connecting art with the real world—when he represents the United States in the 57th Venice...
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 09:01
What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights an...
Bought by Interlochen Public Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 56:29
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
Since 2014 the department of justice and President Obama have been working to right the wrongs of the war on drugs. Through Clemency, Obama has com...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 15:28
In the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, Khanvisile Motsa brings hope to orphans from Africa's rural areas through providing a home, education...
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 03:57
“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangba...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 13:10
“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 22:40
In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
In the heart of the Tenderloin, amid the crowded corners and occupied stoops, there’s an anomaly that’ll catch your eye. It’s a man in a suit and a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 17:08
- Purchases: 1
More than 50 years ago, America’s most prolific composer, Duke Ellington, collaborated with bassist Charlie Mingus and drummer Max Roach to produce...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:59:01
Since the 1994 demise of South Africa's apartheid system, photography in that country has taken on a new freedom, and a new meaning. It has evolve...
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 06:05
A tour of Chicago's west side and one teenager's memories.
Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and WTIP
- Added: May 19, 2009
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
Robert Frost's famous poem helps us reflect on our own paths.
- Added: Apr 27, 2009
- Length: 01:53
- Purchases: 2
Reflections on My Father
- Added: Jun 16, 2008
- Length: 12:54
Seniors in Atlanta Remember Where They Were When King Died
Bought by WABE, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 4
Four social activists talk about why a day of service is the wrong way to honor Martin Luther King.
Bought by PRX Remix, WSLR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KVMR
- Added: Feb 08, 2007
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 4
One family talks about leaving their home in the New Orleans 9th ward as water rose toward the roof, floating their baby in a cooler toward safer g...
- Added: Oct 17, 2005
- Length: 04:20
