PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Artistic Director Janis Burley Wilson discusses the culturally-specific multidisciplinary programming of the August Wilson African American Cultura...
Bought by KZUM, WSLR, RADIOLEX, KMUN, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Mar 07, 2023
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 7
Cydnee Moore creates artwork featuring striking lines in acrylic paint, bold colors, and stories steeped in African American heritage. She believes...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 06:12
- Purchases: 1
Can dance and song offer insight into a person’s experience, and provoke curiosity, even empathy across national identity, race and gender? In this...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Nov 24, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
In this episode, Laura interviews MacArthur Genius Award winning choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili about her groundbreaking experimental work to comm...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Have you ever felt like a stranger in your own home? Well, in the affluent black community of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, Abigail McGrath felt...
- Added: Nov 22, 2019
- Length: 04:48
Johanne Bryant Reid managed to merge her business career with her passion for the arts. While working at Merrill Lynch as Manager of its Global Hum...
Bought by WCNY, CI Dolphin Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
Johnnetta Cole remembers when she wasn't allowed in museums because of segregation, and that informs her determination to inspire a love of art mu...
- Added: Mar 24, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
In her new work Baltimore, playwright Kirsten Greenidge grapples with the issue of race on college campuses.
Bought by WABE, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
A perfect choice for Breast Cancer Awareness month is Waking Up by Cori Thomas. It juxtaposes the experiences of an American urbanite's and an Afri...
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 18:02
Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African American community through narrative quilts.
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji sat down with producer Rebecca McInroy to discuss her inspirations, goals and life as an artist.
- Added: Sep 03, 2010
- Length: 08:12
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 04:49
one of the famous Gees Bend quilters talks about the tradition of quilting and their rise to international fame
Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Aug 29, 2008
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 1
