PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
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Have you ever found yourself looking around in a meeting or a class only to realize that you are the only one? Standing out in the crowd can be har...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 34:53
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"Transparency is important, especially in matters of public health. We treasure what we measure..." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring tim...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Left: Tweety Suazo; Right: Jim Harvey
Juan de Onate is responsible for brutalizing New Mexico’s Indigenous people...hear more about the history of the Spanish colonizer.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
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"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news th...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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When Hurricane Florence hit coastal North Carolina, Shecoria Smith, age 16, was worried about her father returning from a work trip.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 02:49
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:54
Caption: Monica Hand, Credit: Meredith Turk
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
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“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 22:40
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This reading is a passage describing two giraffes seen in crates on a ship bound for Germany.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:49
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Vietnam Veteran and drug therapist Woody Curry returns to Vietnam forty years later.

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUOW, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
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Bethany Ocansey reminisces about the influence of racism on her childhood and how it didn't affect her until she moved from Europe to America.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2006
  • Length: 03:55
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A remembrance of a friend from junior high school who was murdered in 2000 by a chicago policeman

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Jun 28, 2005
  • Length: 34:33
  • Purchases: 2