PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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This week, we’re celebrating the rich baritone voice of jazz singer Johnny Hartman, who would have turned 100 years old on July 3rd. We’ll explore ...
- Added: Jun 19, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In the 1970s, singer Roberta Flack made a name for herself performing covers of songs by folk singers and other little-known artists, creating, in ...
- Added: May 23, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Nina Simone, the “High Priestess of Soul,” was an enigmatic and eccentric figure in the world of jazz. This week on Afterglow, we’ll feature Simone...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, I’ll introduce you to the music of two underrated female singers, revered among jazz aficionados: Lorez Alexandria and Ethel Ennis.
- Added: Jan 09, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Few singers had as much of an influence on the next generation as the suave, full-throated “Mr. E” Billy Eckstine. This week, we’ll explore the wor...
- Added: Jun 10, 2022
- Length: 59:00
We usually think of Billie Holiday as a small-group singer, but she also worked with several big bands. This week on Afterglow, we’ll hear Holiday’...
- Added: Jan 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay speaks with Rowan Allen, the EMT who saved her son’s life and inspired her to become a nurse.
- Added: Dec 28, 2021
- Length: 01:59
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
Clifford has been a long-standing community activist on Austin’s east side. He routinely conducts focus groups, hosts various community meetings, a...
- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 08:50
Vancouver Symphony play Dvorak 9
Bought by KPOV, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 4
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
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
As a law student, Bryan Stevenson was sent to a maximum security prison to meet a man on death row. The man told Stevenson he’d never met an Africa...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 17, 2016
- Length: 24:56
- Purchases: 2
Lana Williams is serving life without parole. Here she describes a typical day.
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 03:39
We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 13:31
- Purchases: 1
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
This reading is a passage describing two giraffes seen in crates on a ship bound for Germany.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 03:49
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
Seniors in Atlanta Remember Where They Were When King Died
Bought by WABE, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 4
Chief Warren McDaniels, the first black fire chief in New Orleans passed away on Feb. 23.
- Added: Mar 06, 2008
- Length: 06:28
6 minute radio piece with interviews and music about the New Orleans keyboadist, singer, and producer Willie Tee
- Added: Oct 19, 2007
- Length: 05:57
This piece focuses on memories of South Rome Park, a formerly racially segregated park and pool located in historically black neighborhood of South...
- Added: Jun 08, 2007
- Length: 07:04
This piece focuses on memories of businesses located in the historically black neighborhood of South Rome (Rome, Floyd County, Georgia), a communit...
- Added: Jun 08, 2007
- Length: 02:35
A compilation of memories of the historically black neighborhood of South Rome (Rome, Floyd County, Georgia), a community currently undergoing "red...
- Added: Jun 08, 2007
- Length: 06:31