PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Author David Mura talks about his new book "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself"
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 17:13
Rev. Harry Blake came to StoryCorps to speak with his daughter Monica Mickle about how his experiences growing up the son of a sharecropper in Loui...
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 02:44
Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series revisits Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, whose 2020 book, CASTE, is now a bestseller. ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDCB, and WRKF
- Added: Aug 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Black History Month continues with a tribute to one of America's best fiction writers, Ernest Gaines (1933-2019.This Past American Voices episode f...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess reads from his multi-award winning poetry book, OLIO, delving into the voices of African American creatives in ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Once you forget the struggle, you won’t appreciate where you are.
- Added: Jul 31, 2018
- Length: 04:15
Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy about her bestseller about two brothers, a kidnapping and a mother's quest.
- Added: Aug 18, 2017
- Length: 30:31
Author of "1968: A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then", Bill Natale sits down to discuss race relations in Chicago and his new book with Elysab...
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 47:02
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
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
English professor and Harlem Renaissance expert Rafia Zafar discusses the ways in which food relates to ethnic, personal, and class identity.
- Added: Nov 25, 2013
- Length: 08:55
Before Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycotts, a 16-year-old student led a student strike that went all the way to the Supreme Court and helped...
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
An audio history of the New York Police Department
Bought by WNYC, WFUV, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WGBH Radio Boston, and WAMU
- Added: Aug 25, 2006
- Length: 59:45
- Purchases: 5
Ann Searcy is a 76-year-old jazz singer. She grew up as one of the only people of color in Old Orchard Beach, Maine where music legend, Duke Elling...
Bought by Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), SALTcast Podcast, Iowa Public Radio, WJAB, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Feb 18, 2004
- Length: 06:05
- Purchases: 7
