PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality
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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:00
Celebrating Juneteenth, Robert Burch, Founder & Executive Director of the Sema Hadithi Foundation shares his take on the holiday and ways his organ...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 16:36
- Purchases: 1
The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...
Bought by KDNK, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN
- Added: Oct 21, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
Bard College, a small Private University in New York State, offers the Bard Prison Initiative, or BPI, to interested inmates who have committed ser...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:33
Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 20:27
- Purchases: 1
“My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” -Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County P...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 31:22
On this edition of Making Contact we present, The Struggle Inside: The Murder of George Jackson, a program about the modern anti-prison movement.
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The Black Panther Party combined Black Power’s militancy with socialist ideology, and infused funk music with Franz Fanon’s writings. Their impact...
- Added: Dec 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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
“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
In the auditorium of Willard Middle School, about 300 people have gathered, many of them sitting on those rickety school bucket chairs, the ones th...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 2
North Beach Citizens is a community-driven, non-profit organization located in San Francisco, California, that addresses the needs of local homeles...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 02:39
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from The Fire Next Time: Ferguson and the Myth of A Post-Racial America-a panel discussion held recently with yo...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
Togo, a tiny country in Africa, is one of the world's poorest countries.
Despite clear evidence that educating girls and young women is the surest...
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 50:58
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
In this second part of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Perfo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 59:59
Award-winning producer, Dred-Scott Keyes takes us through an audio journey of the events and issues which led to the death of Trayvon Martin, the 1...
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 58:30
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 29:59
Author T.J. English looks at NYC in the late 60's and 70's and the tense relationship created between the police and NYC's growing communities of c...
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 52:09
Does the conventional language used to discuss race actually impede our attempts to reach mutual understanding? We discuss the language of race wit...
Bought by KWMR, WGBH Radio Boston, and WTIP
- Added: Feb 09, 2010
- Length: 27:45
- Purchases: 3
