PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:00
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One principle guiding Burning Man is "Radical Inclusion." But it's never been racially diverse. Activists like Favianna Rodriguez are changing that.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 56:11
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After decades of economic inequality ravaged the population of mostly African-American residents, the outcome of the coronavirus outbreak was predi...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2020
  • Length: 20:56
  • Purchases: 2
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The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Dawn Arrington, Credit: Angie Hayes
Welcome to Watershed, a podcast about life in a group of neighborhoods on the East Side of Cleveland.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 08:25
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New voter identification laws could sharply curb voter participation in N.C. and other states, says Duke University historian Gunther Peck.

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:14
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The past finalist on NBC's The Apprentice shares insights into community building with nonprofits in Austin, Tx, lessons learned working with Donal...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 21:42
Caption: Tricia Rose, Credit: Rama Hughes
In this conversation, Juanita Brown wanted to go beyond the hype that President Obama's election marked "the end of history" in American race relat...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 38:28
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Community member Sally Shepard fights the odds and her health to launch a successful parade in Frogtown, St. Paul.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
Caption: Community Check Cashing in Oakland, CA, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
This week we talk to lenders who are doing things differently and to people who are helping others stave off financial scammers.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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Police wrestle with solutions for St. Louis gang problem

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 1
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How some immigrants once considered non-white became white

  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
  • Length: 06:02

  • Added: Feb 23, 2006
  • Length: 02:50
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"A Danger to Self or Others" documents everyday life inside the Chicago Cook County Jail's Mental Health Division - the largest provider of mental ...

Bought by PRX Remix and WYBC


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2