PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired – Spring 2021

  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 07:30
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I'm Shawn Hughes and a student from Walter Payton College Prep. This project details, despite the success, the complications and struggles that our...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 07:15
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Season 1, Episode 10 Asha Lane, a senior at one of New Orleans' high schools (all of which are charter schools) investigates why security and disc...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mr. Drego Little teaches a class at Rainier Scholars., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/FEVEN MEKONENN
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 ...

Bought by Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: RadioActive hosts Paul Kiefer and Hassan Abdi., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/JENNY ASARNOW
RadioActive youth producers take a look at one of the most important things in their lives: school.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 12:12
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In the United States, we take the right to get an education for granted but that's not the case for many refugees. RadioActive's Faisa Muse brings ...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
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Does your race affect how you act? Well, it probably affected how you answered that question.... In this award-winning story, hear why one young ma...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 3
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Blunt discusses cultural insensitivity in the digital age.

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:26
  • Purchases: 1
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A common topic among high schoolers when discussing the college application process and admittance is race. Listen to hear the opinions on affirmat...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:07
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Malik Barrios, an 14 year old from Data High School and is a member of the New Mexico Youth Alliance. He was one of the speakers at the Martin Luth...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WEZU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:08
  • Purchases: 4
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In 1964, more than 700 students from around the country joined organizers and locals in Mississippi to demand rights for black voters. Fifty years ...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 06:43
Caption: Danielle Motindabeka in the WNYC studio
When Radio Rookie Danielle Motindabeka came to the United States at age 13, she didn’t speak English. By the time she was in high school, Danielle ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Jeff Menzise of Morgan State University's Institute for Urban Research talks with Jason Fuller of Generation Justice about education equity. In...

  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 14:28
Caption: James at Phillips Exeter
James Simmons lives on the south side of Chicago. For five weeks, he was granted the opportunity to attend a summer program at Phillips Exeter Acad...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2013
  • Length: 08:08
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Here is a peice Makalah did for Black Music Month back in June.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:08
Caption: Addie Malone
In the summer of 2012 WUNC established its first ever Youth Radio Institute. The station hired five young people -- and two mentors -- to produce r...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:57
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Featuring Louder Than a Bomb 2012 Poetry Finalist, Rachel Smith. When Rachel Smith's older sister was a second-semester high school senior, she an...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 11:03
Caption: Poet Rachel Smith
Poet Rachel Smith, 18, is a senior and a member of Epic Sound, the Kenwood Academy Slam Poetry Team. This is her second year participating in Loud...

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Students all over Philadelphia are being pushed out of schools and right into the school to prison pipeline. This is happening because of the lack ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:45
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Since it's February, I wanted to ask teachers and students from my high school how they felt about Black History Month. The responses were surprising.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:21
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I spoke with my best friend, my mother, and my coach about the roles of a young woman in the household, as dictated by East African culture.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 19, 2011
  • Length: 10:34
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Breanna Koger (l) and Jazzmin Keys, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
High School is not an easy time of life. Minneapolis Edison students Breanna Koger and Jazzmin Keys collaborate to tell the world about it.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
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Sharee Johnson wants to find out if Barack Obama can inspire positive change in her community.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2008
  • Length: 04:58
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An examination of the direct relationship between schools and prisons.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1