PRX - Pieces for Tone: Inspiring
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In 1970, African American athletes took a stand against racial discrimination and other issues regarding the Syracuse University football team. The...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 50:58
"Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law."
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 03:30
2018 has been a year of upheaval for students, in and out of the classroom. This week educators and education activists talk about educational just...
- Added: Sep 13, 2018
- Length: 28:26
Kittie Weston-Knauer is the oldest female BMX bicycle racer in the United States. It was her son Max who introduced her to the sport more than 30 y...
- Added: May 17, 2018
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 3
Because she promised her students she’d never make them do something she wouldn’t do, Nikkita Oliver performed for the first time at the 2012 Seatt...
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 43:07
Tonight we discuss the groundbreaking graphic novel series,March, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis’s life...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 01:00:17
Micah Tron is a rapper born and raised in San Francisco. She’s a queer woman of color, but the hurdles she has faced go even beyond her race, sexua...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 1
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 1
Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:24
Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
Bryan and Brandon Mathis got involved in the world of gangs and running drugs when they were very young. They tell their story about how they got ...
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 09:07
Do you feel like busting loose? NEA Heritage Fellow Chuck Brown talks about his career, from honing his chops in prison in Lorton, Virginia, to dev...
- Added: Aug 02, 2011
- Length: 28:49
American icon Nina Simone in words and music
- Added: Oct 22, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 54
