PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 19, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 11:17
Darnell Moore the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. A story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with...
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
"What we don’t know is what happened in the 18 seconds that the police officer that was in the hallway. He ended up shooting my son seven times in ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 36:29
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter reflections on humanity, the end of policing and her new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORI...
Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, WFHB, and WVAS
- Added: Mar 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
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
Gary Younge, author of "The Speech" talks about Martin Luther King Junior's Dream and the story behind it.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KVSC, WVAS, WJSU and more
- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 14
What Black People Say to Racist Republicans is a team piece performed by the poets of TEAM Englewood Community Academy High School Slam Poetry Team...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:55
Poet Malcolm London, 18, is a 2011 graduate of Lincoln Park High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third year, this time as par...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:44
A dialogue between Princeton University professor Cornel West, and Revolutionary Communist Party USA spokesman Carl Dix about the future of America...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Environmental activist and White House advisor Van Jones believes in making his late father proud.
- Added: May 07, 2009
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 4
Marijuana has made big news again: The Michael Phelps photo and backlash against Kellogg's; The arrest of George Obama in Kenya and CNBC's Marijuan...
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 29:33
Michael Gabby wasn't too optimistic going into the election. Now he's proud to believe in America.
- Added: Feb 09, 2009
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 2
From: Chris Goldstein
Is Marijuana Prohibition Enforcement Institutionalized Racism? 85% of all the possession arrests in New York City and Philadelphia are mirrors to G...
- Added: Feb 05, 2009
- Length: 03:50