PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Big trades in the NFL MLB is back on schedule and Brittney Grinner of the Phoenix Mercury is detained in Russia.
- Added: Mar 16, 2022
- Length: 58:51
(Orig. aired 02-17-22) We break down Super Bowl 56 and the NBA trade deadline
- Added: Feb 22, 2022
- Length: 59:08
Actor and director Tyler Perry is drawing on his own painful past to give others a better future.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:27
Ballerina Aesha Ash is on a mission, to help change the often demoralizing, objectified images of African-American women, and she’s doing it, in a ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:30
From time to time, we all feel as though we're "on the outside." In this episode of The Apple Seed, we share some tales about "outsiders." This col...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 54:57
- Purchases: 4
100-second module, from our readings for May. A city gal inherits a sugar cane farm.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Armstrong was born in Storyville, a redlight district of New Orleans, 1901. His father left and his mother was probably a prostitute. He first lear...
- Added: Jun 18, 2011
- Length: 03:00
If the sound of his name isn't familiar, the sound of his voice certainly is. This is the unlikely story of four Detroit kids who went to a birthda...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Although he appeared on stage and in more than 20 motion pictures, Dooley Wilson won immortality for his role as "Sam" in the 1942 film Casablanca....
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
A founding father of bebop and modern jazz, wife Nellie called his style "Melodius Thunk."
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jan 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
One of our great actors. His mother called him by his initials R.C., but was mis-heard by the county clerk, so we knew him as Ossie.
- Added: Jan 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
This is a show dedicated to the memory and music of Michael Jackson when he was at Motown singing with the Jackson Five as well as solo. A Bowl of ...
- Added: Jan 01, 2011
- Length: 50:17
His friends called him "Hoochie Coo," and he was one of the great jazz pianists ... composer of hundreds of songs, but best known for writing the t...
- Added: Nov 15, 2010
- Length: 03:00
Dreams wrapped in curious packages
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 03:34
- Added: Oct 07, 2008
- Length: 07:02
- Purchases: 1
Spoof: The urban youth version of ,"The Night Before Christmas."
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KVNF, KUOW, KRUA and more
- Added: Dec 06, 2005
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 7
Shirley Horn passed away Oct. 20; listen to this tribute to her music.
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, WEKU, KGOU, and 90.5 WSNC
- Added: Oct 24, 2005
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 4
McCoy Tyner explains how he creates music for small groups, big bands and his Latin group
Bought by WEKU, North State Public Radio, and KGOU
- Added: Oct 06, 2005
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 3
