PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative
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How could anybody be blind to the fact that, underneath it all, we’re all just shadows?
- Added: Oct 05, 2010
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 3
From the urban ghetto of the American Midwest, one of the most promising rappers rising through the ranks right now is Freddie Gibbs. He comes from...
Bought by Vocalo.org
- Added: Aug 03, 2010
- Length: 07:16
- Purchases: 1
We take a look at the Police killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, and the debate over who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Elder collected the final words of American serial killers, psychopaths and more. The book has an introduction by the late journalist Studs Terkel.
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 28:53
This episode looks at music as communication. In Africa drums were always used to send messages across the jungle. These same drums are now used to...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 18:08
- Purchases: 1
An interview with James Lawson, the chief architect of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, and confidant to Martin Luther King. Lawson touches on every...
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 29:00
For much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from ma...
Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WFAE, WGTE Public Media, RadioFreePalmer, WBHM and more
- Added: Nov 19, 2009
- Length: 59:56
- Purchases: 15
How do Black people think Anglos (white people) think they talk?
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KUER, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 08, 2009
- Length: 02:58
- Purchases: 3
Who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong—the police chief or the people? Cities across the country are creating civilian oversig...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Aug 05, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton believe in forgiveness, but from different perspectives.
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 4
(NOTE: This program was updated in 2012 for the 100th anniversary of the eviction.)
In 1912, the state of Maine evicted a mixed-race community fro...
Bought by WERU, KFAI Minneapolis, KUER, WCQS, WFAE and more
- Added: Mar 23, 2009
- Length: 58:39
- Purchases: 21
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 54:15
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
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
A LOOK AT THE MOVEMENT FOR REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS
- Added: Feb 02, 2009
- Length: 59:11
Will Wright has been wondering: how will the New Year and Pres. Obama affect African-American men - their attitudes and futures?
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: 03:12
American icon Nina Simone in words and music
- Added: Oct 22, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 54
THE BAPTISM-audiobook review
- Added: Aug 24, 2008
- Length: 04:16
Will Shade, founder of the popular Memphis Jug Band, buried in a pauper's grave had no headstone, until 2008.
- Added: May 08, 2008
- Length: 03:26
Her first year in the competition, Esther says this piece is about being made fun of for talking "white". Esther Ikoro is 18 years old and was an ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 01:48
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: 05:09
- Purchases: 1
How some immigrants once considered non-white became white
- Added: Feb 13, 2008
- Length: 06:02
Mob madness leads to a pivotal feminist protest during the dark days of Jim Crow racism.
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KUER, WCPN, KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF and more
- Added: Feb 07, 2008
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 6
