PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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In her book, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Kellie Carter Jackson contends that the history of abolitionism, ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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One police chief decided he needed to apologize for an incident 77 years ago: a lynching in his small Georgia town in 1940. LaGrange Chief Louis De...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:09
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Many American cities are struggling with police-community relations, and racial divisions are often the heart of the problem. David Kennedy talks a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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From Obama-era task forces to widespread protests, the idea of community policing has become part of our national conversation. Jerry Clayton, the ...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:25
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Harvard Professor, Caroline Light, explores the racist "Stand Your Ground" history.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the RDD, Haley meets with Pete Culp, a member of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board of directors. Baldemar Velasquez nominat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York whose life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transform...

Bought by WJCT and WFHB


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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This week on AVR we're going to explore America's history of slavery with Gerald Horne, Morris Professor of African American studies at the Univers...

Bought by KSFR and KSFR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2007
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 2
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Kevin Phinney looks at race relations, as seen through the prism of music.

Bought by KUHB


  • Added: Feb 10, 2006
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Julian Bond, chair of the NAACP, whose grandfather was born into slavery, candidly talks about race in America fifty years after the Brown v. Board...

Bought by WTJU, WRPI, and WNCU


  • Added: May 20, 2005
  • Length: 29:13
  • Purchases: 3