PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

506 results


Caption: This chart represents scores for African-American child well-being. Michigan is all the way on the right, third worst in the nation., Credit: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Race for Results report
Our State of Opportunity team looks at many statistics and reports about child well-being in Michigan. Recently, the Annie E. Casey Foundation rele...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
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
Piece image
Ashley, an honors graduate from Polytechnic High School in Fort Worth, spent much of her childhood in and out of foster care. Ashley received a ful...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:11
Piece image
Making the jump from middle to high school is one of those big moments in a kid's life. In this installment of KERA's education series Class of '17...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:53
Piece image
Heading to high school is a challenge for any kid. There are new friends, new teachers and the normal ups and downs of being a teenager. For 15-yea...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 03:22
Caption: Bruce Larson with the first scholarhip recipient, Mohamud Ali, in 2005.
Bruce Larson spent his entire life in rural southern Minnesota, milking 70 Guernseys every morning and every evening. When he and wife, Mary, quit ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
IN THIS EDITION OF THE CUTTING EDGE, WE BRING YOU A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HISTORIAN ERIC FONER AND SYLVIAN DIOUF, AUTHOR OF “SLAVERY’S EXILES: THE STORY...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:56
Piece image
In the wake of the decision reached in the Brown v. Board of Education court case, education expert Dr. Pedro Noguera tackles the question as to wh...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
Piece image
In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the landmark US Supreme Court case Brown versus Board of Education, internationally renowned education ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
Piece image
Reflecting on American education over the last 60 years, New York University professor Dr. Pedro Noguera offers suggestions as to what can be done ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Internationally renowned education expert Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., discusses the impact of the 60th anniversary of Brown versus Board of Education and...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the landmark US Supreme Court case Brown versus Board of Education, internationally renowned education ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Internationally renowned education expert Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., discusses the expansion of educational options afforded to many children as a resul...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
Piece image
In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the landmark US Supreme Court case Brown versus Board of Education, internationally renowned education ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
Piece image
Internationally renowned education expert Dr. Pedro Noguera discusses how historically black colleges and universities have fared as a result of th...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
Piece image
Internationally renowned education expert Dr. Pedro Noguera reflects on the objectives of the Brown family as he discusses the rationale for the hi...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
Caption: Bioneers Radio Series XIII
It's obvious that we're not here for ourselves. That makes no evolutionary sense. There's something larger than us, and to the extent that we can l...

Bought by WCNY, Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, KRZA, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 8
Piece image
Pointing to the environment as a learning tool, MK Asante interlaces personal stories of the unconventional teachers that allow his precocity to sh...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Propelled by an insatiable thirst for knowledge, MK Asante’s self-discovery continues as his father and a teacher at an alternative school feed his...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
MK Asante invites listeners to travel with him as an alternative educational system reinvigorates the natural curiosity that other schools—public a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
MK Asante takes listeners on a personal odyssey as he takes a fresh perspective on a common topic: the disparity between public and private schools...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Insisting that creativity and imagination are often stripped from the American education system, MK Asante offers ideas for its implementation. Geo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Julia R. Masterman High School Student Nuwar Ahmed introduces us to her classmates and teachers—all of whom are struggling to keep education a prio...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 07:10
Piece image
In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Taylor Branch discusses his trilogy of the Civil Rights Movement America in the King Years. [24:25]

Bought by KSFR and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 2