PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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Caption: Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976), The Cotton Bowl, from the series Strange Fruit, 2011. Chromogenic print. , Credit: . Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Copyright Hank Willis Thomas
Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ first major retrospective, “All Things Being Equal” is open at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Thomas’s work addresses the on...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 05:29
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We don'y just plant the seeds so we can eat the fruit. We plant the seeds so the fruit will be there for generations.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy about her bestseller about two brothers, a kidnapping and a mother's quest.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 30:31
Caption: Daina Ramey Berry
A historian and a journalist speak about the devaluation of human life past and present in America.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Author of "1968: A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then", Bill Natale sits down to discuss race relations in Chicago and his new book with Elysab...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 47:02
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Students at Lewiston High launched a town wide dialogue about race after the principal ordered to students to take down posters proclaiming “Black ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, Credit: Earth Flavors
This food-justice-related audio collage features the voices of Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, co-managers of Gardens United, a community gar...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:52
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
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Musician and legendary innovator, Afrika Bambaataa, discusses the origin and legacy of hip-hop. [13:35]

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Robin Steinberg is founder and executive director of The Bronx Defenders, which represents people in the criminal and civil courts who can't afford...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:47
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Whether looking at the 1920s or 2013, people's behavior and attitudes toward race are often influenced by factors beyond their own experience and c...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2013
  • Length: 15:45
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:42
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
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Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent Hip-Hop Radio & 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & J...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 03:08:04
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Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent Hip-Hop Radio & 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & J...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Sep 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:11:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: One Hello World, Credit: http://www.theonlymagicleftisart.com/
How could anybody be blind to the fact that, underneath it all, we’re all just shadows?

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 3
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Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton believe in forgiveness, but from different perspectives.

Bought by WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 4
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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
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A look at Baltimore's preeminent M.C. competition, Style Warz, from the perspective of the rappers who square off in front of a live audience to do...

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 49:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Public housing residents scramble to figure out where to go next when their Chicago public housing high-rise is slated for demolition. It's all p...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 2
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"A Danger to Self or Others" documents everyday life inside the Chicago Cook County Jail's Mental Health Division - the largest provider of mental ...

Bought by PRX Remix and WYBC


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2