PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 19, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 05:14
A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:19
Dr. Synnika's Topical Poem of the Week is a weekly show that uses poetry to explore the social, political, and racial conditions in America. Each e...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 03:30
This episode focuses on the social impact of Ernest Green’s life journey—a different type of travel experience--and his role in the civil rights mo...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 37:07
- Added: Jun 06, 2020
- Length: 56:34
- Purchases: 1
Ginger Commodore, a member of the famed jazz vocal group Moore By Four and experienced band leader, talks to interviewer Phil Nusbaum about the joy...
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 08:25
Gary Younge, author of "The Speech" talks about Martin Luther King Junior's Dream and the story behind it.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KVSC, WVAS, WJSU and more
- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 14
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on discrimination at Muirfield, the golf club hosting the 2013 British Open.
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Sandip Roy believes that Nelson Mandela has yet one more lesson to teach the world.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
On Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 at Winona State University, Charles McDew, former chairman of The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (from 19...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 50:57
- Purchases: 1
This week's stories are about assumptions-- and we all know what happens when people make them. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Jim Frey, and Patrice Mel...
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week it's our monthly series The Tin Roof Project, where well-known Southerners bring their own true stories to life. This month's Tin Roofer ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week our writers grapple with the colors that separate, whether black, brown, or white. Stories by Tyler Thompson, Leslie Epps, and Jennifer M...
- Added: Aug 25, 2012
- Length: 29:00
A dialogue between Princeton University professor Cornel West, and Revolutionary Communist Party USA spokesman Carl Dix about the future of America...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton tells his own true story of his childhood in racially-divided south Arkansas. These encore presentations of our Tin...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...
- Added: Aug 31, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:00
In 1965 the Southern Christian leadership Conference (SCLC) joined a Joanne Bland is the co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Insti...
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 31:50
- Purchases: 2
Marijuana has made big news again: The Michael Phelps photo and backlash against Kellogg's; The arrest of George Obama in Kenya and CNBC's Marijuan...
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 29:33
