PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.
Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 56:56
- Purchases: 2
An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging proje...
- Added: Jul 01, 2019
- Length: 27:53
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal talk compassion, snap judgments, and the Michael Bay button.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 14:08
This week, we examine the intersections between domestic violence, along with other forms of gendered violence, the courts, and the prison system. ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 29:40
Ten years after New Orleans flooded following Hurricane Katrina, the city has changed. New Orleans is now home to far fewer Black people and far fe...
Bought by KZYX and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 2
In the heart of the Tenderloin, amid the crowded corners and occupied stoops, there’s an anomaly that’ll catch your eye. It’s a man in a suit and a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
When President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper initiative in 2014, he said he hoped it would help boys and young men of color find success. ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 06:59
If you have walked the streets of the Bay Area recently -- you might have seen posters featuring the names and faces of Oscar Grant, Renisha McBrid...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
...And Other Essays is the book's title, by author Clifford Thompson who reads a passage here. Observations with wit about life and people, from m...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
More than 2.7 million minors in America live with a parent in prison. Studies show that the majority of incarcerated parents reside over 100 miles ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 06:18
At the age of 51, William Bennett was one of the oldest people in California who could claim that. But in June 2013, eight months after leaving pri...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 07:25
Bennett and Porter do their cooking in a shared kitchen that’s part of a transitional house in West Oakland. But they met many years ago.
“Well, w...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 10:42
Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster talk commitment, reflection, and unconscious racism.
- Added: Nov 17, 2013
- Length: 24:20
California has been in an ongoing struggle trying to figure out how to deal with overcrowding in prisons. The problems extend to the Division of Ju...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 07:19
One of the early and most important Supreme Court decisions of the Civil Rights movement
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In this edition of Tiny Spark, we explore what happens when someone refuses to accept the idea of a "lost cause" and instead gets down to the work ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2011
- Length: 14:56
- Purchases: 2
Keith Plessy, descendant of Homer Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, great, great grandaughter of Judge John Ferguson, both litigants in the 1896 Supreme ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2009
- Length: 29:00
5 generations share essays on Race from This I Believe archive
- Added: Nov 10, 2007
- Length: 24:40
Shareef Cousin was wrongly convicted and sent to death row for over a decade.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and KTNA
- Added: Mar 16, 2007
- Length: 07:57
- Purchases: 3
