PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 05:14
A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:19
How did he deal with it? Was his school helpful? What did he learn from it?
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
Hi I’m Makayla and my piece is about my adventures being a fifth grade reject.
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 13:40
This episode focuses on the social impact of Ernest Green’s life journey—a different type of travel experience--and his role in the civil rights mo...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 37:07
Some move through the world with laser focus. Others are swept into the future by forces of fate. This week we hear about the roads you've taken. O...
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 42:25
Raven and Eboni are friends who look like each other. And there are not a lot of people who like they do at their college in Missoula, Montana. But...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2019
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.
- Added: Feb 27, 2018
- Length: 05:00
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
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
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe talks about the revolutionary life and work of Lena Horne.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy believes that Nelson Mandela has yet one more lesson to teach the world.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 2
As we recognize Bud Powell as one of the most influential jazz pianists of the 20th century, we must also acknowledge how much of his greatness and...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
Many songs, books, and movies focus on love and romance, but what happens when they become one’s only source for learning? Philly Youth Radio’s Jay...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 3
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:26
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:31
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:08
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:08
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: :54
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:57
The musical story of "ASHFORD & SIMPSON", today plus the celebration of the life of NICHOLAS ASHFORD (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011). ASHFORD & SIM...
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WJAB, and WVAS
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 57:46
- Purchases: 3
Radio 101 student Denita Wade remembers her father, a man she did not know very well.
- Added: Sep 19, 2011
- Length: 04:19
