PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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History is made by the daily decisions of regular people. One family's story of the Great Migration.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 52:50
HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "Everything is Exhaus...
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
Tribute to one of Blues music's great contributors, Memphis Minnie.
- Added: Sep 15, 2021
- Length: 58:54
James Garrett Jr. is an architect at 4RM+ULA architects. His family has deep ties to St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. During his childhood, James fel...
- Added: Jul 19, 2021
- Length: 19:20
The number of Black-owned farms has drastically declined since the 1920s, and now make up less than two percent of total U.S. farmland. In this epi...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 21:23
- Purchases: 1
Some historical recordings from another era.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 58:58
A revisit to a great album by Buddy Guy recorded in 2001.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 59:54
A collection of Blues songs that have relevance to current issues in 2020
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 59:13
Margaret and Matilda Roumania Peters were sisters and tennis champions in the 1930s, long before Serena and Venus Williams. While still in high sch...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
A virtual trip back in time to November 21st, 1964 to Chicago's Regal Theater to hear B.B. King
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 59:49
A career spanning 50 years, Robert Cray is a major mainstay in the world of Blues music.
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 59:58
A great album from 1999. The album is "Double Shot" by Snooky Pryor and Mel Brown.
- Added: May 10, 2020
- Length: 59:06
What did segregation look like in everyday life and culture? We tell the stories of an African American opera singer and a white woman who transf...
Bought by WCPN, WCNY, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCMU Michigan and more
- Added: Oct 03, 2019
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 11
HOUR ONE: "Hip Hop Future" - "Straight Outta Compton" turns 30 this year and hip hop has more influence than ever. What will it change next? HOUR...
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 01:58:59
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 27:33
In this episode, Rebecca McInroy is joined by Dr. Coleman Hutchinson, Dr. Dina Berry, and Steve Wilson to discuss the some of the creative decision...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 59:03
Meet the oldest African-American family in Washington, D.C. - and, perhaps, the United States.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Radio Catskill, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 19, 2011
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 6
The Funk Show: An interview with THE NEW BIRTH - A one hour (Part #2) interview with LESLIE WILSON and MELVIN WILSON of THE NEW BIRTH SOUL R&B Grou...
Bought by WJAB
- Added: Dec 17, 2009
- Length: 58:11
- Purchases: 1
