PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Food is an expression of who we are. Table host and folklorist next door, Yvette Blair-Lavallais, catches up with two generations of two North Texa...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 13:08
When Drew Lanham was a child, he used to lie down in a field and play dead, just so he could get a glimpse of vultures flying over him. He made bin...
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 37:14
David Wilson and his husband Rob Compton, one of the first legally married same-sex couples in the US, talk about how they met and reflect on the s...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 1
A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 24:49
Melba Beals, one of the nine African-American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, tells her story of faith under fire.
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Composer Dolores White talks about some of her experiences of segregation, the importance of having access to a broad cultural education, and why e...
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 30:20
Mario Loiseau talks with his 9-year-old daughter, Mabou, about why he works so hard to provide for her education.
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 01:48
Command Sergeant Major Roy Wilkins and Retired Army 1st Sergeant Keith Melick, who first crossed paths at war in 2004, talk about reuniting in a VA...
Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 3
Miguel Alvarez (L) and Maurice Rowland (R) remember caring for residents at an assisted living home, where they were a janitor and a cook, when it ...
Bought by WRIR, Blue Mountain Radio , WTJU, and WEZU
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 01:35
- Purchases: 4
For StoryCorps' 10th anniversary, we're revisiting some favorite stories.
At 27, Wil Smith's age wasn't the only thing that set him apart from oth...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 2
NEA National Heritage fellow Mary Jackson talks about the art and tradition of sweetgrass basketmaking.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 22:53
- Purchases: 1
