PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 10:12
Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 45:28
For the first time, a complete unreleased album is being issued from Prince’s
vault. Over the next hour, we’re going to go deep on “The Story of We...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KFCF FM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
In a this Juneteenth edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attended the June 19th obse...
- Added: Jun 27, 2020
- Length: 30:00
In 1988, a man in Hickory, NC was sentenced to life in prison based on evidence that experts would later call “junk science.” It took him 24 years ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 25:43
- Purchases: 1
Melody William's spent the first 18 months of her life sentence in lock-down.
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 03:55
Story about the 23rd and Cherry Fellowship Hall in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. The story follows Nick, a recovering drug addict, on hi...
- Added: Dec 12, 2015
- Length: 05:08
Eleanor Warren talks about her song, "Coming Home."
- Added: Nov 02, 2014
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 2
"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 16:39
- Purchases: 4
Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 2
The "FIVE STAIRSTEPS and CUBIE" was a family pop act who released hit records from 1968 to 1969 on both Curtom and Buddha Records. CUBIE BURKE was ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2011
- Length: 48:54
SUGAR PIE DE SANTO is a singer, dancer, band leader and song writer who is responsible for the hit with Etta James "In The Basement". She has recor...
- Added: May 23, 2011
- Length: 55:15
In the 1970?s, dancer Gail Lyons and drummer Emile Latimer discovered love in Buffalo, New York through West African music. After all these years,...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
Interview and discussion on the subject of the legendary JOSH WHITE with his son JOSH WHITE, Jr. his daughter JUDY WHITE-GOARD and his granddaughte...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 54:27
PART A (1st hour) of Volume #1 of the Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps. Joining Howard Burchette is Clarence Burke, Jr., Clarence Burke, Sr. and...
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 59:04
One-hour special delves into the history and music of songwriting and singing team Ashford & Simpson.
Bought by WFUV, KPSQ-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KPIP-LP, WSGE and more
- Added: Feb 04, 2009
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 19
An interview with pioneering African-American radio disk jockey,The Magnificent Montague"
- Added: Feb 03, 2009
- Length: 57:53
- Purchases: 2
Chief Warren McDaniels, the first black fire chief in New Orleans passed away on Feb. 23.
- Added: Mar 06, 2008
- Length: 06:28
The late jazz sax master Frank Morgan tells his remarkable story in material recorded in 2006.
- Added: Dec 27, 2007
- Length: 34:38
Interview with Brill Building songwriter Doc Pomus and members of his family
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Jun 01, 2007
- Length: 01:04:13
- Purchases: 1
In an era when media monopolies dominate the airwaves, there still are independent voices and programs. King Biscuit Time is the longest running d...
- Added: Dec 07, 2006
- Length: 08:06
