PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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

22 results


Pulitzer Prize Winner Leonard Pitts Jr.
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Leonard Pitts Jr.
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WJCU


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Babo In the Sunshine: Herman Melville and the Tryal Rebellion
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anthony Imbert. Wrapper illustration for “Life in Philadelphia” (ca. 1829-30).
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Lovers of The Poor
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
Piece image
Poetry and music which reacts to racism and social unrest.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 1
Reading Race
From: Rebecca Nolan
Piece image
A racial justice book group confronts the reality of racism on Cape Cod.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:32
Afrofuturism: 3 Women you Need to Know
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Piece image
Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...

Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Thomas Mullen discusses "Lightning Men"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
Piece image
Thomas Mullen is the author of The Lightning Men, Darktown, and The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA TODAY. To l...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 15:39
PN 16-15 "What Do You Call" by Cornelius Eady
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Cornelius Eady, poet, Credit: Lynda Koolish
Cornelius Eady reenacts a scene of racial discrimination from the film A Raisin in the Sun.

Bought by KVNO, KHSU, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
"The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America" with Michael Eric Dyson
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Piece image
Michael Eric Dyson's new book, "The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America", explores the powerful, surprising way the p...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:50
2016 Features Editor of THE NATION Kai Wright
From: New Letters on the Air
Piece image
The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Frantz Fanon: Toward a New Humanism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Piece image
Psychiatrist, philosopher, writer, activist and insurgent, Frantz Fanon influenced such revolutionary leaders as Malcolm X and Che Guevara. Fanon ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 57:30
James Hannaham discusses "Delicious Foods"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
Piece image
James Hannaham is an author, part-time conceptual artist, journalist, and teacher.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 17:27
Shadows Are Black: Slavery's Long Setting
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Piece image
Tonight’s show, Shadows are Black: Slavery’s Long Setting, features a discussion on the text and context of Herman Melville’s 1855 novella “Benito ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 57:12
"Stokely: A Life"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
Piece image
Kwame Ture, once known as Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinadad, later moving to the United States at the age of eleven. He would become a lead...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:35
  • Purchases: 1
Nadine Gordimer Memorial
From: New Letters on the Air
Piece image
We remember the Nobel Prize-winning South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who passed away on July 13, 2014. In this 1994 interview with former NEW ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gilbert King reads from his Pulitzer-winner, Devil In The Grove: Thurgood Marshall, The Groveland Boys, and The Dawn of A New America (5/20)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
Piece image
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Before becoming the first African American on The Supreme Court, Marshall risked his life in ...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Amiri Baraka: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
Piece image
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) Obituary
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Piece image
Producer Dred-Scott Keyes looks back at the life of poet/writer Amiri Baraka, who died on January 9th in Newark, New Jersey

  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:04
A Conversation with Kevin Young
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Piece image
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 23:45
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Piece image
Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:33
  • Purchases: 16
Confronting the Warpland: Black Poets of Chicago
From: Ed Herrmann
Caption: Gwendolyn Brooks
Hear some of the great African American poets who have lived and worked in Chicago.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KZYX, WRGY, WLPR , KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2009
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 23
1997 Lorenzo Thomas - The New Age
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
black arts movement poet reads an anti war poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
1985 Amiri Baraka - Why's Wise
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Piece image
A powerful 1985 reading of an anti slavery poem by the late Amiri Baraka. In this piece, Baraka treats the issue of voice - and what happens when a...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1