PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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Ma Rainey-a Celebration of the Blues and African American Performance
From: Don McIver
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Using "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" film now out on Netflix, we look at how she influenced the blues with selections from her, Sterling Brown, Bessie...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 56:40
1619, Past and Present (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-- Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should commemorate 1619 and what’s at stake when we ignore it. -- Richard Chew explains how a Britis...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 10
1619, Past and Present (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Nearly 400 years ago, in 1619, the first Africans arrived in English-speaking North America. Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should comme...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9

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