PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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A documentary about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre not only explains the full story of the shameful attack on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa tha...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:23
Hope - Charisse Arrington is a R&B singer who was signed to MCA Records in the 1990s. Her biggest success was with the single "Down With This" whic...
- Added: Mar 14, 2022
- Length: 04:21
“The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator saying, ‘You have a collect call from Ian for Debb...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 33:47
- Purchases: 1
This story shows the process and the drastic change from an alcoholic and addict to a wife , a mother , a grandmother, 12 year recovering addict an...
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 07:29
Love - Alee Opuiyo is a 2005 Howard University School of Communications graduate. She majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Political Scie...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 01:19
In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 20:27
- Purchases: 1
Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men. It ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2015
- Length: 21:41
- Purchases: 2
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 2
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:52
- Purchases: 1
Michigan has always been home to a number of bustling American enterprises, including the prison industry. Each year, the state's correctional faci...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:27
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 04, 2013
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 1
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.
Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 6
The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 20:25
- Purchases: 3
LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's exploration of the murder of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was pushed to his death from a 14th-floor window by tw...
Bought by KUT, KUT, KUT, Remix Radio, and KUER
- Added: Jun 09, 2004
- Length: 40:14
- Purchases: 5
