PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
Reverend Patricia Gould-Champ, a woman affectionately referred to as the Queen Mother, which, in her case, is not a petty, royal appellation. Rathe...
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 26:36
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: Jul 28, 2022
- Length: 24:10
Put on your alligator shoes and Sunday best as we explore the history of the Second Line while we go dancing in the streets of New Orleans.
- Added: Apr 30, 2022
- Length: 28:55
Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 14:06
In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 11:17
See the world differently as we explore travel and beauty through the eyes of a gifted BIPOC plus-sized model.
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 15:14
From time to time, we all feel as though we're "on the outside." In this episode of The Apple Seed, we share some tales about "outsiders." This col...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 54:57
- Purchases: 4
Damen Bell-Holter faced a lot of trauma growing up in his small village in Alaska. He formed a goal to play professional basketball. But reaching f...
Bought by KRZA and Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Feb 26, 2021
- Length: 11:57
- Purchases: 2
Join World Footprints as we explore the story of Black Americans’ fight for freedom and equality with U.S. Civil Rights Trail guide author Deborah ...
Bought by WHFR
- Added: Feb 15, 2021
- Length: 30:54
- Purchases: 1
Muyambi loved biking, so when his friends asked him to plan a cycling trip across his home country of Uganda he was thrilled. But challenges arose ...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 13:01
- Purchases: 2
Sharon Ross wanted to be prepared for anything. But when she joined others getting ready for the end of the world, she found herself the odd one out.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 15:41
- Purchases: 1
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 27:51
What does it mean to be a ranger? It means you are married to the mission, a soldier for your planetary home, armed with a moral compass and a Smok...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 03, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
There’s a man in a small city thirty miles south of Richmond Virginia whose business was pretty much wiped out by the Coronavirus pandemic. But des...
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 12:26
Joann Jones co-founded a community dance class that helps senior citizens fight inactivity and isolation. But as she gets older, Joann has to fight...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 12, 2020
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 2
Tarik Moore always enjoyed nature. So when he found an outdoorsy community, it led to new adventures—like becoming a member of the first all-Black ...
Bought by KRZA and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jan 29, 2020
- Length: 18:46
- Purchases: 2
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
- Purchases: 1
Author Steve Bergsman talks about his new book, I Put a Spell on You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Prairie Public, KMUW, GCR (Global Community Radio), Raven Radio and more
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 57:55
- Purchases: 8
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
Edward Harden Peeples V was born to be a racist. It almost seemed preordained. One of his ancestors had owned 250 slaves and his father loathed bla...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Sep 09, 2019
- Length: 25:37
- Purchases: 1
David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:19
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:11
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 26:39
