PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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American Veteran: This Black World War II aviator first experienced racial integration in a POW camp
From: American Homefront ProjectSeries: 2022 American Veteran
When he was 11 years old, Harold Brown decided he wanted to be a pilot. He flew 30 missions during World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the ...
Bought by KTEP, WTIP, KUT, Texas Public Radio, WVTF and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
A lonely, guarded black man falls into a relationship with a Latina who is desperate to leave the home in which she is made to feel inferior. Regin...
- Added: Jun 25, 2021
- Length: 08:45
Race and Identity at Home is a narrated public radio audio feature exploring parenting in multicultural families with Kristin Leong and Diana Opong...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 17:47
In light of the recent events regarding race in America, we revisit MacArthur Genius and Guggenheim Fellow, Claudia Rankine, who discusses her mo...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Megan Yasu Davis. Megan is the founder of The Kitchen Salon, a natural and locked hair resource f...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 1
The Rough Draft Diaries is feeling the blues this week as we hang out with Aayan Naim, leader singer of the blues band, The Good, The Bad, and The ...
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 06:04
We're hitting the gym on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. Join us as we visit Soul City Boxing and Wrestling Gym in this two-part series. H...
- Added: Jul 25, 2016
- Length: 06:29
“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangba...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
When I was 15, my father was sentenced to three months in prison. I was one of the 2.7 million Americans under 18 with a parent who’s incarcerated.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This pre-season sneak-peek features singer and songwriter, Ge...
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 13:37
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:19
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:25
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: :54
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:31
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:58
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:24
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:57
In the summer of 2012 WUNC established its first ever Youth Radio Institute. The station hired five young people -- and two mentors -- to produce r...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:57
How one woman is re-imagining the possibilities of living, working, and building a sustainable Detroit
Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 05, 2011
- Length: 07:14
- Purchases: 2
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 04:49
This piece focuses on memories of the pool in South Rome, an historically black neighborhood in Rome (Floyd County), Georgia.
- Added: Jun 08, 2007
- Length: 02:03
A twelve year-old's audio diary about life with a mom in prison.
Bought by The Story, KGLT, KLCC, and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Apr 12, 2007
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 4
A six-foot piece of jail-grade toilet paper from 1963 captures Civil Rights struggle
Bought by WABE, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Sep 02, 2005
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 7
