PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Race and Identity at Home is a narrated public radio audio feature exploring parenting in multicultural families with Kristin Leong and Diana Opong...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 17:47
Hi I’m Makayla and my piece is about my adventures being a fifth grade reject.
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 13:40
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
Marcus Bullock is the founder of the tech app Flikshop—which allows families to communicate digitally with their loved ones in prison. In this clip...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 05:56
This hour is dedicated to listening to members of our Black community. They share their experience and responses to recent social uprisings and the...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 59:08
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother. It's a tragic love stor...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 38:13
- Purchases: 2
Darnell Moore the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. A story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with...
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
"What we don’t know is what happened in the 18 seconds that the police officer that was in the hallway. He ended up shooting my son seven times in ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 36:29
Nashua, NH Police Sergeant, Lakeisha Phelps is one of two black police officers on a force with 176 police officers, in one of New Hampshire’s most...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
An emotional and poetic tour of a day in the life of a youth at Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 07:13
“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 13:10
Ta-Nehisi Coates' friend from Howard University was shot and killed by police in Virginia back in 2000. Written in the form of a letter to his own ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Daquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis laments losing a best friend.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis, writes about moving forward despite having to struggle
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 1
Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School, tells about the experiences that hade him what he is. A good deal of pathos is included.
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:35
- Purchases: 2
Melvin talks about what it's like being from New Orleans.
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 01:20
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:04
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Thomas McCall, a 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be, was already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produc...
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 02:39
Basic facts and about elephants from Carol Buckley, founder of The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, plus a personal elephant story from NY Times be...
- Added: Dec 03, 2008
- Length: 07:06
