PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:58
Caption: Francine Anderson
Francine Anderson grew up in rural Virginia during the 1950s. It was the Jim Crow South and “Whites Only” signs punctuated the windows of many busi...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Another authentic author's voice -- Jo Ivestor reads from her touching book, The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960's Deep South. Her true sto...

  • Added: May 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Alex Landau, who is African American, and his adoptive mother, Patsy Hathaway, who is white,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WTJU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
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A young boy's father is killed in Somalia, as he makes his way to a camp in Kenya. After a long journey, now in the US, he doesn't feel discriminat...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 08:51
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Families of murder victims gather to offer each other support during the holiday season.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:32