PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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This hour is dedicated to listening to members of our Black community. They share their experience and responses to recent social uprisings and the...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 59:08
When Hurricane Florence hit coastal North Carolina, Shecoria Smith, age 16, was worried about her father returning from a work trip.
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 02:49
Five years after they met in Ferguson protesting the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by police officer Darren Wilson, Jamell Spann and Elizabeth Vega ...
Bought by KWMU St. Louis, KVNF, and WHRV
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 02:23
- Purchases: 3
33-year-old April Gibson talks to her teenage son, Gregory Bess, about how she felt when he was born.
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 02:10
- Purchases: 2
RadioActive youth producers take a look at one of the most important things in their lives: school.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 12:12
Judge Michael John Ryan talks with his son, Michael Benjamin Ryan, about growing up in an abusive household, and how he found the strength to gradu...
Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 3
Mental health is an issue that rarely gets discussed in the black community. For college students of color the issue gets even more difficult.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 04:22
- Purchases: 2
Ebony Isis Booth is a poet in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She currently works as the Programs and Commumications Coordinator at the Harwood Arts Cente...
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 08:24
An emotional and poetic tour of a day in the life of a youth at Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 07:13
The foot soldiers of the civil rights movement were shot, beaten, jailed, even murdered. Yet they kept on marching. Love for their community and fa...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 07:46
- Purchases: 1
From the Mississippi Delta, the call for Black Power electrified the nation in the 1960's. For some it was an affirmation of hope and strength, a p...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 1
Raymond Summerville uncovers the surprising and troubled past of George Hatton, a beloved citizen of Columbia, Missouri, whom neighborhood children...
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 06:58
Six students from one Seattle high school have died from suicide or murder this year. Why hasn't this tragedy been front-page news? Is it because a...
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 35:26
Check out Makalah's piece about the Trayvon Martin vigil in downtown Austin. She talks about her experience and asks citizens about their view on t...
- Added: Sep 29, 2013
- Length: 04:35
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:47
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:05
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: :54
Twenty-three-year-old Tierra Jackson talks to John Horan, the president of her high school, about what her life was like when they first met.
Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:07
- Purchases: 3
In an age when handguns are bought and sold for less than twenty-dollars on urban street corners and the price of a human life sometimes seems even...
- Added: Dec 08, 2008
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 07, 2007
- Length: 04:06
- Added: Feb 15, 2007
- Length: 07:37
- Purchases: 1
