PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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How did he deal with it? Was his school helpful? What did he learn from it?
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- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
This story shows the process and the drastic change from an alcoholic and addict to a wife , a mother , a grandmother, 12 year recovering addict an...
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 07:29
Geography - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditional s...
- Added: Jul 10, 2020
- Length: 02:04
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
"My dad's life story is kind of like Cinderella’s. He grew up without a mom, worked for an evil relative and found his princess in the least expect...
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 05:40
- Purchases: 1
In the United States, we take the right to get an education for granted but that's not the case for many refugees. RadioActive's Faisa Muse brings ...
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 05:12
Calvin Burns and his teenage daughter, Stepheni Bellamy, visit StoryCorps to have a difficult conversation about rac
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- Added: Apr 24, 2017
- Length: 02:50
- Purchases: 3
Zavier Thompson is a 15-year-old activist and artists who uses his words to inspire and empower others. Interviewing him is Joshua Horton, a youth ...
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 05:33
It?s our last podcast of the summer, and we?re going out with two pieces about self-expression. DaeDae Williams shares a powerful poem about the c...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 07:52
When Radio Rookie Danielle Motindabeka came to the United States at age 13, she didn’t speak English. By the time she was in high school, Danielle ...
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- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
In this piece, a middle school poet from Minneapolis tells of his background, including slavery and citizenship.
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- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 01:25
- Purchases: 1
Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis, writes about moving forward despite having to struggle
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- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 1
Dayquan, a student at Harrison Hish School in Minneapolis writes of his heartbreaks.
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- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 1
Dayquan writes about his struggles losing his mother to death at an early age.
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- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
Locks, Dreads, or Jata (Hindi) is a kind of hairstyle that portrays different meaning and belief. In today's society, having dreads is something co...
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- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 11:43
- Purchases: 1
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: 01:25
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: 01:31
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
High School is not an easy time of life. Minneapolis Edison students Breanna Koger and Jazzmin Keys collaborate to tell the world about it.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 04:49
This week on YO!Radio -- Poverty gets trumped by the political bonanza, teens get a 'How to Guide' in dealing with the cops, and why teens cringe w...
- Added: Oct 21, 2008
- Length: 07:56
Her fifth year in the competition, KeeKey says this piece is about the love of writing, from the perspective of a multi-racial girl (note: in Engli...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 01:34
A year in the life of a South African teenager.
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- Added: May 30, 2006
- Length: 27:09
- Purchases: 17