PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Some call it a new civil rights movement. Others simply call it “black lives matter”. We hear a conversation about waging strategic non-violence be...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious visits with Orell Massey, a black sheriff's deputy in rural Mendocino County, Ca, who shares his experiences as a black sheriff in a ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 58:02
Teen radio journalist, Lilli Carlsen, traces how her journey to become a feminist directly corresponds to musical artist Beyonce’s lyrics. For many...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 1
Mauro Oliviera, local activist and producer of Smallworldradio.net, co-hosts with me today. Our guest is direct action activist and organizer, Cat...
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 58:54
Diamen, Rosa and Javon interview Nate Brown (Family Resources) and Jason Harris, Taymar Fields, Tramell Perry and Aaqila Youngblood (public housing...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 03:16
In her collection of essays, author and publisher Janet Cheatham Bell emphasizes our mutual dependency. It’s about identifying and using the power ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
The protests carry on and for now, as the protestors say, Ferguson is everywhere — not just in the news, but in our institutions, our interactions,...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Dr David E. Kirkland, Transforming the world with more inclusive education methods
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 28:57
What might happen when the descendants of a white slave trader and of slaves meet? That is the brave and wrenching journey of Thomas DeWolf, whose ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2014
- Length: 28:30
A Radio Theatre piece about the creation and performance of one of America's most controversial songs.
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 13:22
Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:04
This radio documentary highlights the voices of nine men and women who have experienced the workings of the US criminal justice system from the ins...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KVMR, WVAS, KUNM, WORT and more
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 8
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
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
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
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Radio Curious discusses interracial relationships with Harvard professor Randall Kennedy, author of “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identit...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Jan 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In the final episode, the NAACP begins efforts to fight the death sentences handed down in Helena, led in part by Scipio Africanus Jones, the leadi...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Jan 06, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
This is a story that begs to be told. It’s long overdue.
The year was 1919. The place: Phillips County, Arkansas.
What became a watershed moment i...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
"I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur in 1994. From an unheard interview recorded by Benjamin Svetkey, then a writer for...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVNF, KJZZ, PRX Remix, and KALW
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 5
A thoughtful array of ideas about race, with the voices of President Obama, young James Batley, and theatre professor Fanni Green.
- Added: Nov 27, 2013
- Length: 03:47
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
