PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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“I didn’t do what they said I did. And it was like, I don’t know how to disprove the police. I mean, it’s my word against theirs. I don’t really st...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 33:00
After being incarcerated for 15 years, Chalana McFarland is reunited with her daughter following a federal memorandum that called for releasing non...
Bought by WYAP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WERA-LP
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 3
73-year-old Winfred Rembert is one of the only people ever known to have survived a lynching. At StoryCorps, he sat down with his wife, Patsy, to r...
- Added: Nov 22, 2019
- Length: 03:09
Roxanne Simmonds and her husband, Dennis, remember their son, police officer D.J. Simmonds, who died due to injuries he sustained confronting the B...
- Added: Apr 13, 2018
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 2
10-year-old Dezmond Floyd talks with his mother, Tanai Benard, about the active shooter drills in his 5th grade classroom.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WEZU
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 2
33-year-old April Gibson talks to her teenage son, Gregory Bess, about how she felt when he was born.
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 02:10
- Purchases: 2
Starring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Condola Rashad (“Billions”), CELL tells the riveting story of three African-American women working at ...
Bought by WCPN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WHRV
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 5
StoryCorps gives people the chance to sit down together and have a conversation they’ve never had before. Five Mualimm-ak did just that with his so...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 02:52
- Purchases: 1
Robert Howard II talks with his mother, Roberta Vincent, about losing his father, an Army Sergeant killed in action during the Vietnam War.
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 3
What’s it like to be a teenager sent to prison for what may be forever, and what’s it like to be his mom?
Our story is Mother and Son.
- Added: Apr 05, 2017
- Length: 37:45
Six students from one Seattle high school have died from suicide or murder this year. Why hasn't this tragedy been front-page news? Is it because a...
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 35:26
Berta and Joseph spent years as drug dealers and hustlers in the roughest parts of New York. They both served time. Joseph was an alcoholic. Their ...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 19, 2014
- Length: 18:54
- Purchases: 1
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
