PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Franklin Gilliard and his wife, Sherry, reflect upon their time in a homeless shelter after...
Bought by WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 3
The last mass lynching in the U.S. took place back in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. The case remains open, but one group stages an annual re-enactment i...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 08:59
- Purchases: 1
According to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, "Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fomented the musical revolution known as hip-hop. Theirs was a p...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
Wake up with swinging Latino, ease into convention and go forward but not out (yet). Blues, dark & sinister, and a brass odyssey. A Big Band char...
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 2
On the next Snap, we're dropping the story-pocalypse. Snap Judgment presents "The Passion" performed LIVE! in San Francisco's Nourse Theater. Amazi...
- Added: Sep 11, 2014
- Length: 53:57
A mobile market aims to revitalize a formerly thriving commercial district in New Orleans' historic Central City neighborhood.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 04:37
- Purchases: 1
Andre Simms is 45. He’s been shot. Stabbed. Homeless. Arrested. He sold and used drugs. But everything changed when his girlfriend died and he was ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 29, 2014
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
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
What are the origins of this dance? How did it begin? Who are the rising talents of this subculture based on the West Side of Chicago? And how has ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 11:57
As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
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 ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
Dekalb Walcott III talks to his dad, retired Chicago Fire Chief Dekalb Walcott Jr., about...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 3
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...
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 4
Journalist Gianluca Tramontana takes you through the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, introduces you to their people, examines their history and explores...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 01:00:13
- Purchases: 1
Everything Sounds explores the the origins and sounds of South African gumboot dancing.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
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
This program tells the untold story about Dr. Martin Luther King and his appearance on the most prestigious lecture series in Canada, shortly befor...
Bought by WXXI Rochester
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 49:57
- Purchases: 1
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
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
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
In this piece, a middle school poet from Minneapolis tells of his background, including slavery and citizenship.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 01:25
- 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
Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century an...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 09:21
- Purchases: 3
Judith Tannenbaum taught poetry in prisons across the United States and intensively at San Quentin and other California prisons through Arts-in-Cor...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 18:09
- Purchases: 1
