PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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- Added: Aug 24, 2017
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
A historian and a journalist speak about the devaluation of human life past and present in America.
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
What does color of skin have to do with equal access to justice in America? The Equal Protection Clause, part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitu...
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 48:40
We may be in a period of historic closeness between Russia and the United States, but there was a time when hundreds of African-American scientists...
Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 10, 2017
- Length: 04:02
- Purchases: 4
In April of 2014, federal agents raided the studios of 106.1 TOUCH FM in Boston, Massachusetts. The reason was simple: the radio station was operat...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Feb 08, 2017
- Length: 41:13
- Purchases: 1
A social worker who now helps others who are making the transition from prison talks with his mentor about their first meeting inside Sing Sing pri...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and Public Radio for All
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 3
The US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 29:43
- Purchases: 1
Since 2014 the department of justice and President Obama have been working to right the wrongs of the war on drugs. Through Clemency, Obama has com...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 15:28
Two fathers of children on the autistic spectrum talk about the concerns they have for their sons — two young black men growing up with autism.
- Added: Jul 18, 2016
- Length: 02:57
Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson’s brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the poli...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR
- Added: Jun 30, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
This story explores Michelle Obama's early life, expectations surrounding her ascendency as First Lady, and the impact she will leave on the office...
Bought by WWNO, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WHCP-LP Cambridge, WTJU, CI Dolphin Radio and more
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:33
- Purchases: 12
Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman talk distance, authenticity, and having a free hand.
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 29:56
Stanley Nelson talks history, irony, and delivering the unexpected.
- Added: Oct 03, 2015
- Length: 15:03
In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 17:08
- Purchases: 1
If you have walked the streets of the Bay Area recently -- you might have seen posters featuring the names and faces of Oscar Grant, Renisha McBrid...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Kevin Gordon talks risk, impatience, and why form must follow function.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 12:49
J.T. Johnson and Al Lingo remember having acid thrown on them after jumping into a whites-only swimming pool in St. Augustine, Florida in June of 1...
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 4
Freida Mock talks time, perspective, and the impact of the right image.
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 11:36
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
A new portrait of the late Burnley "Rocky" Jones will grace the walls of Dalhousie's Schulich School of Law, thanks to the Black Law Students Assoc...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 08:18
Bill Siegel talks politics, sports, and making history.
- Added: Oct 23, 2013
- Length: 23:17
South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn talks with his granddaughter Sydney Reed about his career in politics.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 02:50
- Purchases: 1
Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:28
