PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 33:44
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 1
Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.
Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 6
Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:24
Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
Zora was one of the shining lights of the Harlem Renaissance as a writer of novels, short stories, essays, articles, plays, folklore collections, a...
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 02:21
5 generations share essays on Race from This I Believe archive
- Added: Nov 10, 2007
- Length: 24:40