PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Trey Phillips came to StoryCorps with his college roommate Andre Thomas to talk about their first year at school and the impact they had on each ot...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Oct 12, 2023
- Length: 03:49
- Purchases: 1
If you ask Hannah Jean what would be her greatest wish, she will say running Brooklyn Public Library. Last month, she got to do just that.
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 09:14
Zaylore Stout (he/him) is a gay, African American attorney and author of "Our Gay History in Fifty States," which illustrates stories of queer Amer...
- Added: Jun 01, 2023
- Length: 05:52
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
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 10:12
Nearly 30 years after surviving a house fire as a kid, Myeshia Oates reunites with the Los Angeles County firefighter who saved her life, Derek Bart.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
Rev. Farrell Duncombe talks about growing up in Montgomery, AL, and the role models who shaped him, including his Sunday school teacher, Rosa Parks.
- Added: Aug 12, 2021
- Length: 03:15
Albert Sykes speaks with his nine-year-old son, Aidan, about black fatherhood, and his hopes for the future.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WERA-LP, and WYAP
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 3
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
Burnell Cotlon owns and operates the only grocery store in the Lower Ninth Ward. When it opened in 2014, it was the first grocery store to serve th...
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 02:11
- Purchases: 2
Nine-year-old Aidan Sykes interviews his father, Albert Sykes, about being a dad.
Bought by WEZU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 2
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
15-year-old Keith Tingman remembers his tenth birthday better than any other birthday before or since. That was the day he watched his mom get arre...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Vocalo.org, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 01, 2010
- Length: 07:43
- Purchases: 4
A tour of Chicago's west side and one teenager's memories.
Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and WTIP
- Added: May 19, 2009
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 2
The Dalai Lama visits a women's homeless shelter in WASHINGTON DC
- Added: Jun 11, 2008
- Length: 05:43
