PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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When the aging jazz artist was hospitalized, his doctors thought they should get some background information on his life, and he told them that he ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Is it possible to study human remains ethically?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 44:44
Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.
- Added: May 14, 2023
- Length: 56:58
Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 4
Rufus McKenzie of Perry, GA shares a tale of degradation in exchange for a meal.
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 06:00
On 2/24/2016 President Obama will present the Selma voting rights marchers the Congressional Gold Medal. On March 7, 1965, the marchers were attack...
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 03:57
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
As part of KUT’s Views and Brews series we engaged in a spirited discussion about Miles, his music, his relationships with his musicians, and the g...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 01:58:04
- Purchases: 1
Blues, jazz and folk music of the 1920s and '30s featuring the guitar, piano, violin and more.
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Marijuana has made big news again: The Michael Phelps photo and backlash against Kellogg's; The arrest of George Obama in Kenya and CNBC's Marijuan...
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 29:33
From: Chris Goldstein
Is Marijuana Prohibition Enforcement Institutionalized Racism? 85% of all the possession arrests in New York City and Philadelphia are mirrors to G...
- Added: Feb 05, 2009
- Length: 03:50
5 generations share essays on Race from This I Believe archive
- Added: Nov 10, 2007
- Length: 24:40
Chance encounters of love with singer Nora York, renown chef Vertamae Grosvenor and a reading of Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2007
- Length: 58:34
- Purchases: 4
An audio history of the New York Police Department
Bought by WNYC, WFUV, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WGBH Radio Boston, and WAMU
- Added: Aug 25, 2006
- Length: 59:45
- Purchases: 5
A powerful 1985 reading of an anti slavery poem by the late Amiri Baraka. In this piece, Baraka treats the issue of voice - and what happens when a...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1