PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Kesha Powell and Amen Emile have been working at BPL for over 20 years in various roles, from public safety to circulation manager. Thanks to BPL's...
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 13:48
Eunice Wiley shares how becoming one of the only Black teachers at a predominantly white Florida elementary school helped define her as a teacher.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 1
Ingrid Douglas never finished high school as a teenager. When she started looking for a better job at age sixty, she found not having a degree was ...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
Join us today as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and we share stories and songs, bringing focus to the Civil Rights Movement.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, Radio Catskill and more
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 7
We all remember the influential teacher who made a difference in our lives. But for Drego Little, the teacher that changed his life was the one he ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
The message from Dr Kimbro, Brian Courtney Wilson, and Robert Ferguson to all that surrounds the American Black Male Leadership Institute
- Added: Dec 06, 2015
- Length: 12:11
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
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 27:33
Twenty-three-year-old Tierra Jackson talks to John Horan, the president of her high school, about what her life was like when they first met.
Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:07
- Purchases: 3
A.P. Tureaud Jr. tells his friend Steven Walkley about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.
Bought by WEZU, KUOW, and Vocalo.org
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 3
One actor from the cast of the new HBO television show "Treme" is doing more than just acting.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 1
A martial arts school in Chicago’s South Side reinforces community in a violent neighborhood.
Bought by Vocalo.org
- Added: Jan 14, 2010
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 1
To get kids off a path of drugs and gangs, sometimes it takes a mentor who's been there
Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: May 29, 2008
- Length: 05:24
- Purchases: 3
