PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Nestled in the Rondo community of St. Paul, among the burgeoning business district of a revitalized neighborhood, is a publishing entity ready and ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2023
- Length: 05:34
This program was recorded on February 19, 2016.
Who we are and where we come from is a crucial question that now we are more able to answer than e...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Originally Broadcast: February 13, 2012
The exodus of approximately six million black people from the American South between 1915 and 1970 had a s...
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is arguably the most consequential social insult in ...
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In part 2 of our conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 29:00
There are clear lines that connect the legacy of slavery to many of our present day issues, including the racial inequities of COVID-19 infection a...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, KSQD Santa Cruz, KCPW Salt Lake City and more
- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 57:58
- Purchases: 19
We dig into the history of a once-unacknowledged African burial ground in East New York, Brooklyn, and ask how a new library branch can honor that ...
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 33:36
From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 22:24
- Purchases: 2
In this year's celebration of Black History Month and the 50th Anniversary of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, author and journali...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 50:32
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
- Purchases: 1
Blues songs about race relations, floods, hurricanes and fires.
- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
Join Tom Cairns for one hour of good old Georgia Blues from the 1920's to the 1940's.
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
Join Tom Cairns for one hour of good old Georgia Blues from the 1920's to the 1940's.
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
Join Tom Cairns for one hour of good old Country Blues from the 1920's to the current day.
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
A discussion of the important the heritage of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 31:35
This week’s episode focuses on the importance of education in prison. We speak with Dr. Scarlett Brooks, who has taught English and writing in seve...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 29:07
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 14:46
A bell tower that has been mute for 70 years at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia is about to get a voice thanks to Diane Watkins.
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 55:55
14-year-old AJ Frazier reports on how higher standards at his middle school impact his work ethic.
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: 08:55
- Purchases: 3
The need for male African-American elementary teachers remains pressing.
Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WUFT
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 3
Burgundy Farm School was desegregated 4 years before Brown v. Board
Bought by WCSU-FM, WTJU, 90.5 WSNC, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 06, 2007
- Length: 05:48
- Purchases: 4
A panel of three African-Americans reflect on their greatest challenges and successes in resolving racial conflict throughout their lives.
Bought by KUAC, Radio Catskill, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more
- Added: Dec 05, 2005
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 15
