PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Sidney Francis and his daughter, Candice Francis, reflect on his time as one of the first Black Marines to serve at Montford Point during World War...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
In honor of Black History Month, OHR pays tribute to African Americans’ profound contribution to American music. Forged into the roots of blues, j...
- Added: Jan 11, 2024
- Length: 58:59
Welcome to “Unveiling the Ancestors,” a radio special that sheds light on who we are today by looking at WHO came before us. I'm your host, Anne Ho...
- Added: Nov 24, 2023
- Length: 53:10
Author David Mura talks about his new book "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself"
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 17:13
Rev. Harry Blake came to StoryCorps to speak with his daughter Monica Mickle about how his experiences growing up the son of a sharecropper in Loui...
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 02:44
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
Topic 1 - Harriet Tubman; Topic 2 - Global Warming; Topic 3 - Library Fines
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS and more
- Added: Feb 24, 2021
- Length: 51:42
- Purchases: 6
Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1 - Witness of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech; Topic 2 - Representation in Media; Topic 3 - Being Anti-Racist
Bought by KTXK, Radio Catskill, WLPR , WCPN, RadioStPete Florida and more
- Added: Dec 29, 2020
- Length: 52:19
- Purchases: 6
Topic 1 - Voices from the March on Washington 2020; Topic 2 - Photographer’s Intimate Portraits of 10,000 Species and Counting; Topic 3 - The Scien...
- Added: Oct 26, 2020
- Length: 51:22
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series revisits Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, whose 2020 book, CASTE, is now a bestseller. ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDCB, and WRKF
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
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
In a this Juneteenth edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attended the June 19th obse...
- Added: Jun 27, 2020
- Length: 01:10:53
In a this Juneteenth edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attended the June 19th obse...
- Added: Jun 27, 2020
- Length: 30:00
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
Black History Month continues with a tribute to one of America's best fiction writers, Ernest Gaines (1933-2019.This Past American Voices episode f...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess reads from his multi-award winning poetry book, OLIO, delving into the voices of African American creatives in ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
It’s Banjo Time! Join host Dave Smith and banjo royalty Mark Jones as they explore music of the banjo. From its ancient African roots, we’ll follo...
- Added: Nov 27, 2019
- Length: 58:59
Dr. Martin Luther King, I waited on him. He had ham and egg and hash browns.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 2
Once you forget the struggle, you won’t appreciate where you are.
- Added: Jul 31, 2018
- Length: 04:15
"Freedom"
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: 150 years ago, two girls crossed the Missouri River trying to escape a life of slaver...
Bought by KSTK
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 1
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
