PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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A late-summer tribute mix of music, history and celebration featuring some of those who have left us--while striving to move the world towards a be...
- Added: Aug 21, 2022
- Length: 59:07
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: Jul 28, 2022
- Length: 24:10
Queen Mother Imakhu's rendition of the African American folktale about a group of mystical enslaved Africans who escaped their oppression by regain...
- Added: Feb 05, 2022
- Length: 08:35
After seeing ads for home DNA tests on TV, John decided to give it a try. Just spit into a cup—what did he have to lose… or gain?
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 13:23
A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 18:59
Black Lives Matter protesters take over a city council meeting to protest against police killings of blacks, and how Ty're King's death overlapped ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 03:00
Throughout the summer of 2016, this country has been reeling in the wake of profound injustice. As racial tensions swell, is it possible that somet...
- Added: Jul 25, 2016
- Length: 06:45
The story of how members of the mostly white Unitarian Church of Evanston decided to take a stand in the Black Lives Matter movement.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 16, 2016
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 2
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:22
- Purchases: 2
After serving time, finding food, a job and a place to live with a criminal record can become an almost impossible task. On this edition, Women bu...
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 28:56
This special edition of "The Cutting Edge", looks at the trial, resistance and execution of Troy Davis, who was convicted of the killing of an off-...
- Added: Sep 29, 2011
- Length: 56:30
We know what history books say about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech - but what about the people who were there?
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WTIP, KRCB 104.9, WHFR and more
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 05:41
- Purchases: 28
He was America's first rock star ... and we knew him as Johnny Ace
- Added: Nov 18, 2010
- Length: 03:00
A tribute mix to the "King of Pop" who changed and shocked the world over his short fifty years in front of us all.
- Added: Jun 26, 2009
- Length: 28:23
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 08:28
- Purchases: 1
Ruby Elzy was one of George Gershwin's hand picked leads for the original production of Porgy and Bess. Hailing from the small Mississippi town of...
Bought by KMUN, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WNMU-FM, KHNS, WCQS and more
- Added: Feb 03, 2009
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 25
Basic facts and about elephants from Carol Buckley, founder of The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, plus a personal elephant story from NY Times be...
- Added: Dec 03, 2008
- Length: 07:06
A documentary exploring sickle cell disease and an extraordinary doctor who is fighting the illness in Philadelphia and West Africa.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCMJ Community Radio, WRGY, KUNM, KUNM and more
- Added: Jul 26, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
Her fouth year in the competition, Dianna says this piece is about Emmett Till's mother. Dianna Harris is 17 years old and was an individual final...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
His second year in the competition, Demetrius says this piece is about fitting into all four of his races. Demetrius Amparan is 17 years old and w...
Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 1
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
His first year in the competition, Keith says this piece is about humanity. Keith Redman is 18 years old and a member of Kuumba Lynx, which was th...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:20
After spending almost 13 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Rick Walker and his family adapt to life after exoneration.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Remix Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2007
- Length: 15:05
- Purchases: 2
This is the story of how, NHS a non-profit organization, helped the Venerable and other low income families become homeowners.
- Added: Jul 09, 2007
- Length: 07:56
The Bayview community's apprehension to a proposed redevelopment plan.
- Added: Jul 07, 2007
- Length: 14:13
