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
In 1963, a 12-year-old Freeman Hrabowski III accepted Martin Luther King's challenge to march, and that week set the course of his life.
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 52:49
Black Soldiers of Utah was an exhibit on display in Utah showcasing and exploring the often untold history of black soldiers and veterans and how t...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 1
Lady J Griot and her Root Doctors not only play the blues, but tell of the connections with African religion, philosophy and folklore. The group pe...
- Added: Aug 22, 2022
- Length: 08:00
At the age of 42, Bridget Mason won a court case in California that freed her and her daughters from slavery. She went on to become a California re...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 05:14
After he died, John Glanton's photo negatives were forgotten. But then a relative unearthed those images from a trash bag in a garage. The result: ...
Bought by KBEM
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 1
Try Wine for Cats and Meet Sarah & Arthur of Purr Cat Cafe! It's also our Quarterly Semi-Biannual Begathon Episode!
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Apr 24, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
Summer is the time for baseball all over the country, and in Minnesota that’s no different. The history of baseball in Minnesota, however, has inc...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 29:56
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WTJU
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 16:56
- Purchases: 2
This documentary views Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" through the lens of California's ma...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, and WZEN.org
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Hint: It doesn't have a whole lot to do with paint swatches...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 3
Novelist Alice Walker discusses the theme of revival in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Congressman ron Paul of Texas and Chicago Tribune Columnist Clarence Page discuss marijuana and racism
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Jun 28, 2007
- Length: 29:45
- Purchases: 1
