PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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Caption: Jonquilyn Hill
Long time GJ member Jonquilyn Hill speaks with us about her new podcast Through the Cracks.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 58:18
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Amari Poindexter, 17, says the indifferent attitudes and racism of people during the coronavirus in coastal North Carolina remind her of how her pe...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:06
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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
Caption: Vernon Baker
First Lieutenant Vernon Baker received the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II, April 1945, near Viareggio, in Tuscany, Italy and Ca...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 34:20
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Melanated people are here. We are thriving. Our businesses are thriving. The return to kings and queens is here. We are vibrating higher by the mil...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Damon Davis & Sabaah Folayan, San Francisco, CA 4/14/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis talk hypocrisy, reckless disregard, and modernized blackface.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 15:17
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On this edition of Making Contact we present, The Struggle Inside: The Murder of George Jackson, a program about the modern anti-prison movement.

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop
The Legacy of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and A Sermon to White America

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Anti-lynching banner flew outside NAACP headquarters in midtown Manhattan from the early 1900s until 1938. , Credit:  (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/COURTESY OF THE NAACP)
For “Lynchings on Loop” Courtney Baker, author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death joins us to talk about ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
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What comes after Whips and Chains? Solitary confinement. Lisa Guenther of Vanderbilt University discusses the reformist good intentions of Benjamin...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:45
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For tonight’s show, "The United States of Apartheid," we welcome Gerald Horne.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:15
Caption: A die-in near Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade., Credit: Lena Nozizwe
A news report from Santa Monica, California on "Reclaim MLK" actions there.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:42
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We remember the Nobel Prize-winning South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who passed away on July 13, 2014. In this 1994 interview with former NEW ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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J.T. Johnson and Al Lingo remember having acid thrown on them after jumping into a whites-only swimming pool in St. Augustine, Florida in June of 1...

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KMUD, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: David Simon, Credit: American Library Association
In Treme, Simon explored New Orleans’ viability as an expression of its culture. After the 2005 levee failure, keeping New Orleans cuisine and musi...

Bought by Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 52:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Struck down but not destroyed", Credit: Makalah
Check out Makalah's piece about the Trayvon Martin vigil in downtown Austin. She talks about her experience and asks citizens about their view on t...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2013
  • Length: 04:35
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Students all over Philadelphia are being pushed out of schools and right into the school to prison pipeline. This is happening because of the lack ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:45
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Washington D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood has been a historically black, working-class community. Now, as property values in D.C. are climbing, a wa...

Bought by WCSU-FM, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 3
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LaDarrell Hagans is something of a full-time volunteer for Deval Patrick's reelection campaign for Governor of Massachusetts. Although LaDarrell k...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
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In rap music, being tough is often a pre-requisite for success. Long jail time, stolen guns and cars, and other outlaw antics beef up the thug image.

  • Added: May 08, 2010
  • Length: 09:48
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Chicagoans reflect on the inauguration of Barack Obama.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2009
  • Length: 18:36
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Action Speaks looks at contemporary issues through the lens of history by using under-appreciated dates of the twentieth-century that have changed ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WRNC-LP, WRVO Public Media, KUT-HD, WDCV and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2009
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
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The Racial Wealth Gap

  • Added: Feb 11, 2008
  • Length: 28:00
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Youth Producer Nicole Baty interviews the Albuquerque community about the upcoming 2008 presidential election.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Oct 15, 2007
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Tony Visconti and Santana discuss the making of Angelique Kidjo's Djin Djin.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 56:33