PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

106 results


TSSAAPR240221 The Soul Show BHM Week 4 (evergreen): Honoring a Quiet Gem - Skip Scarborough
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: soulshowmike.org
Join host Mike Canton for a tribute to the quiet musical hero Skip Scarborough, who wrote numerous hits for Bill Withers, Earth, Wind & Fire, Patti...

Bought by KCHW and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 2
McReele
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Piece image
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
Frozen River Film Fest 2022: Fresh Water
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Piece image
The FRFF is a festival held around Winona that features a variety of documentary films. Though these films vary in message, topic, and substance th...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 27:07
John Ball's In the Heat of the Night
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Piece image
"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
BIPOC Media: Building Local Power Through Reporting
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
What are the stories that will be driving news coverage in the coming year for communities of color and our network partners in the media that serv...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
North Carolina: Courageous Conversations in a Climate of Fear
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Many questions remain about the recent attack on North Carolina’s electrical grid, which left tens of thousands of citizens unsettled, frightened a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
TSSAAPR221102 The Soul Show - Stevie Wonder's "Talking Book" at 50
From: Mike Canton
Series: The Soul Show (3 hours, with soft ending after Hour 2))
Caption: Mike Canton, Host/Producer of The Soul Show
Embedded in the usual eclectic mix is an Hour 2 feature on Stevie Wonder's 1972 masterpiece, Talking Book. Enjoy!

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 1
What if a different part of the women’s movement had gained more attention?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
(August 24th, 2022 release date) In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipelin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
For-Profit Business of Training Guns-for-hire is Literally Booming In Rural America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Stick Fly
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Piece image
How do you turn a family weekend into a disaster?

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 35
Artist Candice Davis Unearths Truth in the Soil
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Candice Davis, Artist, Credit: Sheila Regan
How does past trauma from generations ago play out in contemporary life? Artist Candice Davis creates works from clay, blood, and cloth with her ex...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Keep it 1 Million Show (02-08-22)
From: KRDP
Piece image
We talk about the Brian Flores lawsuit against the NFL and the bombshell allegations he and Hugh Jackson alleges what their bosses told them to do.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 57:58
Painting the Walls Black: Chaka Mkali Challenges Traditional Notions of Curatorial Work
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Album Cover, I Self Devine, Rituals of Resilience, Credit: Illustration: Johnalynn Holland, Lettering: Andres Guzman, Image Courtesy of I Self Devine
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
A Huey P. Newton Story
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Piece image
One of the most distinctive voices in civil rights history re-emerges to tell his own story.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 24
A Paramilitary Industrial Complex is Growing in Americans' Backyards
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
Piece image
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. "Veteran activists organizing across this state [Nor...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
Adjoa Andoh from Netflix's Hit Series Offers Advice to a young BIPOC Artist
From: Anne Hoffman
Series: Off Mic from Philly Audio Diaries
Caption: Adjoa Andoh playing the fan favorite, Lady Danbury, on Netflix’s Bridgerton.
“Don’t worry about if you’re messing up as a woman or messing up, you know, as representing women of Chinese heritage or Iranian heritage or Grenad...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 19:43
In Real Life
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Piece image
A hilarious and harrowing account of an actor's journey.

Bought by KMUN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 22
Vaccine Hesitancy: Building Public Trust For Public Health
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
The Biden administration has promised to make Covid-19 vaccines available to all US adults by May 1st, but getting a vaccine to those who need them...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Fabulation
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Piece image
From Lynn Nottage, the story of one woman’s rise from rags to riches … and back again.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KALW and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 19
GN_4.60_BarberShopMeds
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Piece image
Using the barbershop in black communities to help black men stay healthy.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
A Conversation with Charles Person
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:26:58
A Conversation with JoAnne Blackmon Bland
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:06:54
A Conversation with Dave Dennis
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Freedom Rider, Dave Dennis, never thought about getting involved in the Civil Rights Movement but he did want a date with a pretty young lady.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:31:59
A Conversation with Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:23:34
Dr. Synnika's Topical Poem of the Week
From: Synnika Lofton
Series: Dr. Synnika's Topical Poem of the Week
Piece image
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