PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 57:37
- Purchases: 1
If you ask Hannah Jean what would be her greatest wish, she will say running Brooklyn Public Library. Last month, she got to do just that.
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 09:14
The mission of the Black Heritage Library & Multicultural Center is to build community awareness, appreciation and understanding of the value of cu...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jul 05, 2022
- Length: 06:05
- Purchases: 1
Meet the youngest guest of The Rough Draft Diaries, 9-year-old Leila and her non-profit Leila's Promise. An organization that looks to empower and ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 06:09
- Purchases: 1
To kick off our series of BHM programming we're starting at the Toledo Public Library system, highlighting the programming and organizing efforts t...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 06:10
- Purchases: 1
A former Chicago gang member enters rival territory to ask for peace.
- Added: Feb 27, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Albert Sykes speaks with his nine-year-old son, Aidan, about black fatherhood, and his hopes for the future.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WERA-LP, and WYAP
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 3
10-year-old Leila Ramgren talks with her father, Chad Eisen-Ramgren, about Philando Castile, the cafeteria manager at her school who was killed by ...
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
Rickey Jackson, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent nearly four decades in prison for it, talks with Eddie Vernon, the man whose false...
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 03:26
Some people donate money. Others donate time. One St. Paul barber has a different approach to helping others. One day every year, Milan Dennie give...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 04:11
We're hitting the gym on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. Join us as we visit Soul City Boxing and Wrestling Gym in this two-part series. H...
- Added: Jul 25, 2016
- Length: 06:29
Writer Ronald L. Smith takes us on a trip down south, to the backwoods of Alabama, where a young boy was born with a heart-shaped birthmark, the ma...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 21:53
Nine-year-old Aidan Sykes interviews his father, Albert Sykes, about being a dad.
Bought by WEZU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 2
Herman Travis speaks with his neighbor Robert Cochran about delivering food to elderly and disabled residents of his housing complex.
Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 01:42
- Purchases: 3
Franklin Gilliard and his wife, Sherry, reflect upon their time in a homeless shelter after...
Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 3
For StoryCorps' 10th anniversary, we're revisiting some favorite stories.
At 27, Wil Smith's age wasn't the only thing that set him apart from oth...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 2
Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...
- Added: Aug 31, 2011
- Length: 29:00
This is a sound piece using fragments of stories that children wrote and told in Kumasi, Ghana.
- Added: Nov 28, 2006
- Length: 02:04
