PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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A lonely, guarded black man falls into a relationship with a Latina who is desperate to leave the home in which she is made to feel inferior. Regin...
- Added: Jun 25, 2021
- Length: 08:45
The Elevator is an infectious love story with a twist. Working for the same company, Chase and Hilda are star-crossed lovers trapped in a broken el...
- Added: Aug 05, 2019
- Length: 39:39
The 1840s South. In the thick plantation air, two enslaved sisters spin a poetry of escape. Today’s the day: Field Girl is making her run for freed...
- Added: Jan 29, 2018
- Length: 20:56
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. In the short play, A Man of His Time, a descendant of Supreme Co...
- Added: Jan 29, 2018
- Length: 32:06
- Purchases: 2
Starring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Condola Rashad (“Billions”), CELL tells the riveting story of three African-American women working at ...
Bought by WCPN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WHRV
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 5
Sam Waterston and John Douglas Thompson star in this offering from Playing on Air. It features two short plays about American Black History. In th...
Bought by KSKQ, KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Feb 28, 2017
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 7
In the fact of the fear, confusing and despair many Americans feel after the election, one group of individuals joined together to share stories of...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 52:51
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 04:15
Aidan Quinn, Audra McDonald and Tonya Pinkins star in shorts by John Patrick Shanley (Oscar, Pulitzer, Tony winner) and Lynn Nottage (Pulitzer Priz...
Bought by KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFCF FM and more
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 10
Features a conversation with August Wilson scholar Jeannie Zeck about Wilson’s plays and the many influences on his work; the show also features pe...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 29:03
SueMedia Productions, in conjunction with the National Audio Theatre Festivals, (NATF) is offering "William’s Leap for Freedom" for Stations to bro...
Bought by KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis, WEMU and more
- Added: Jan 02, 2011
- Length: 52:57
- Purchases: 21
This episode looks at music as communication. In Africa drums were always used to send messages across the jungle. These same drums are now used to...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 18:08
- Purchases: 1
Contemporary short stories, performed by two prize-winning young women writers. ZZ Packer has "Brownies," about violence that brews when white girl...
- Added: Mar 19, 2009
- Length: 56:17
- Added: Nov 02, 2003
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 1
