PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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An ex-con gets tapped to run for the Senate.
Bought by KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, KFCF FM and more
- Added: Feb 14, 2024
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 37
"They call me MISTER Tibbs!"
Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW and more
- Added: Feb 08, 2023
- Length: 01:58:01
- Purchases: 37
Add curator to a long list of Chaka Mkali's professional accomplishments. In the tradition of fellow Afrofuturists who have looked to the sky for i...
- Added: Jan 29, 2022
- Length: 06:16
Dr. Synnika's Topical Poem of the Week is a weekly show that uses poetry to explore the social, political, and racial conditions in America. Each e...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 03:30
Michigan native Marcus Wicker reads from his 2011 National Poetry Series winning collection, MAYBE THE SADDEST THING, which was also a finalist for...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We’re going to take a look at a man who became wealthy and well-known well before that “new deal” and who suffered the slings and arrows of America...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 58:51
- Purchases: 2
When your back is against the wall and you're all out of options, you don't want to break the law...but it wants to break you.
- Added: Jan 07, 2016
- Length: 53:57
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
"I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur in 1994. From an unheard interview recorded by Benjamin Svetkey, then a writer for...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVNF, KJZZ, PRX Remix, and KALW
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 5
King County is home to one of the country's largest populations of Somalis. They've been fleeing since the Somali government collapsed in 1991. The...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 07:45
From the urban ghetto of the American Midwest, one of the most promising rappers rising through the ranks right now is Freddie Gibbs. He comes from...
Bought by Vocalo.org
- Added: Aug 03, 2010
- Length: 07:16
- Purchases: 1
American icon Nina Simone in words and music
- Added: Oct 22, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 54
Mob madness leads to a pivotal feminist protest during the dark days of Jim Crow racism.
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KUER, WCPN, KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF and more
- Added: Feb 07, 2008
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 6
