PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Raynita Snipes Johnson remembers her great-uncle, US Army veteran Maceo Snipes, a Black man lynched for voting in 1946.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 02:23
- Purchases: 1
February 1st is National Freedom Day, made into a holiday due to one man's efforts.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Margaret and Matilda Roumania Peters were sisters and tennis champions in the 1930s, long before Serena and Venus Williams. While still in high sch...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
One of the many types of Blues music is a regional style named "Bentonia Blues" as it was founded and based out of Bentonia, Mississippi.
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 59:36
The First band to be recorded for the Alligator Records label.
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 57:40
An unsung guitar hero of the blues who made a BIG mark very few know about.
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 59:01
The Legacy of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and A Sermon to White America
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 57:58
- Purchases: 2
The largest attempted slave escape on U.S. soil happened in SouthWest Washington, DC. That's the tale in "Passenger on the Pearl." Young readers d...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 39:45
Poetry is form of self-expression that’s become vital to the incarcerated. To mark National Poetry Month, we bring you a special production by the ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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
Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Anthony Braxton. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn why ...
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 14
Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, talks about the legacy of Medgar, shares her thoughts about civil rights t...
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 21:51
Before Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycotts, a 16-year-old student led a student strike that went all the way to the Supreme Court and helped...
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Studs Terkel reads excerpts from Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" in this history of African Americans in the packinghouse industry of Chicago.
Bought by WFHB, WORT, Spokane Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC and more
- Added: Nov 04, 2008
- Length: 28:21
- Purchases: 12
From: N Lorde
A personal insight into the life of former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - his life after the blockbuster hit movie.
- Added: Jan 08, 2006
- Length: 14:07
- Purchases: 5
