PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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For many of us, the holiday season presents an opportunity to spend some time thinking about people less fortunate than ourselves. This week on Sea...
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 29:00
By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a ra...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 28:30
In this moment of radical transformation, shifting the societal pronoun from “me, me, me” to “we” may be the single most transformational pivot we ...
- Added: Mar 17, 2023
- Length: 28:30
There are periods when history comes to a boil – when powerful forces of both destruction and creation result in massive social change. In 2020, th...
- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 28:30
What happened in Georgia in 2020? The election of two Democrats to the Senate from that state handed the presidency to Joe Biden and control of Con...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more
- Added: Oct 26, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
Back in 2016 the US Supreme Court established that the University of Texas could continue to consider race as a factor in admissions, in order to e...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s right in the Declaration of Independence that everyone is created equal. So why is an entire political party so scared of talking critically a...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 07, 2021
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
One front on which the fight for racial justice is being waged is in the area of education. We have been led to believe that education is the great...
Bought by WFHB and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
BIPOC journalists reflect on what it is to be veterans of two of the most devastating wars in recent history: the coronavirus pandemic and the cent...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: May 26, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "In Search Of Real Food...
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 01:58:57
HOUR ONE: "Breaking The Chains" - You can trace a direct line from slavery to the mass incarceration of Black men. Should we defund the police? How...
- Added: Jun 19, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
In his book "Lies My Teacher Told Me," James Loewen writes that "race is the sharpest and deepest division in American life." We recognize the peac...
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 29:00
A’shanti Gholar is the founder of the Brown Girl's Guide to Politics and the national political director for Emerge America--a national organizatio...
Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KSJD, KUT, KCSB-FM and more
- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 8
On the 5 year anniversary of the uprising in Ferguson, MO, we're re-airing this conversation--with new trax acknowledging the date. When Michael Br...
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 9
400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about a...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
2017 was the 60th anniversary of the stand-off between Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and desegregation at Little Rock Central High School . Today ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2017
- Length: 58:59
One of my most popular shows of 2017. Originally produced in April 2017.
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
The Legacy of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and A Sermon to White America
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 57:58
- Purchases: 2
Tonight we discuss the groundbreaking graphic novel series,March, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis’s life...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 01:00:17
There’s been a lot of controversy over the movie Selma and the Academy Awards. Selma is rightfully centered on Dr. King, and has been rightfully cr...
Bought by KPVL
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
Some call it a new civil rights movement. Others simply call it “black lives matter”. We hear a conversation about waging strategic non-violence be...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Stokely Carmichael was a down-home organizer and radical off-beat visionary of racial equality in America 50 years ago, a quicksilver activist, the...
Bought by WRPI
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 29:01
