PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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In 1963, a 12-year-old Freeman Hrabowski III accepted Martin Luther King's challenge to march, and that week set the course of his life.
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 52:49
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
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world — and it is Black mothers who are dying at the hig...
Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: May 31, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
We talk with Carl Hart about his book, Drug Use For Grownups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear.
We also talk with Hari Ziyad about their memoir...
- Added: May 21, 2021
- Length: 59:01
Season 1.5, Episode 3
Retried Judge Calvin Johnson was a lot of firsts, including the first elected African American judge in New Orleans. Johnso...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 11:51
Guy Bryant talks to his foster son, Romario Vassell, about what it means to be a foster parent to more than 50 kids.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2019
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
Each day starts off at ground zero. Based on my motivation, it'll either be mundane or it'll be a masterpiece.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 22, 2019
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 2
For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: May 05, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
June 7th marks the one year anniversary of the death of Clinton Gilkie, and so we devote our June 2nd and June 16th episodes of Kite Line to his st...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:55
America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a black m...
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 56:32
What’s it like to be a teenager sent to prison for what may be forever, and what’s it like to be his mom?
Our story is Mother and Son.
- Added: Apr 05, 2017
- Length: 37:45
Our focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion between our friend Lucy and one of her fe...
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 28:10
Is a person with one black parent and one white parent black? White? Neither? Both?
Bought by KSKQ, KMUN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KTSW 89.9 and more
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 8
“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangba...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
A community organizer in North Minneapolis worked with local youth on a documentary project aimed at fighting racism--challenging stereotypes and s...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:12
Deafening gunshots rang out just as James Martin arrived home. Troubled by the news of a 17-year-old young man dying in front of his house, he did ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:38
WADDIE WELCOME & THE BELOVED COMMUNITY tells the story of friendships that transcended divisions of disability, race, and income.
Broadcast on WMPG...
- Added: Feb 01, 2011
- Length: 56:48
This is the story of how, NHS a non-profit organization, helped the Venerable and other low income families become homeowners.
- Added: Jul 09, 2007
- Length: 07:56
