PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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“Don’t worry about if you’re messing up as a woman or messing up, you know, as representing women of Chinese heritage or Iranian heritage or Grenad...
- Added: Oct 10, 2021
- Length: 19:43
This story shows the process and the drastic change from an alcoholic and addict to a wife , a mother , a grandmother, 12 year recovering addict an...
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 07:29
My Grandmother, who I loved dearly, passed away, and nobody spoke up until three days later: I was told.
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 06:59
Hear how guest Cathy McGill responds to Marcus Garvey’s words “A people who lack the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture are like a...
- Added: Oct 01, 2018
- Length: 12:48
Poet Mia Harris, 17, is a junior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this ye...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
Poet Kush Thompson, 18, participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this year. Her piece "The Blind Side (Live!) or When White Women Rai...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
Poet Chelsea Dixon, 16, is a sophomore at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:45
Poet Savia Gordon, 18, is a senior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this ...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:52
- Purchases: 1
Sex Sells is a team piece about the objectifying stereotypes of women, performed by the poets of Lyrikally Xplicit from Gwendolyn Brooks College Pr...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:57
Poet Antwon Funches, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. His piece "You...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:47
From preteen girls to college women to female faculty at the highest ranks of academia—a show about how women are learning to become leaders throug...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WJCT, WMPG, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR and more
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 9
Poet Asha Ransby-Sporn, 17, is a senior at University of Chicago Laboratory High School. This is her first year participating in Louder Than a Bom...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Poet Kush Thompson, 17, is a senior at Orr Academy High School, but she was representing YOUmedia Chicago in this year's competition. This is her ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 03:14
Poet Kush Thompson, 16, is a junior at Orr Academy; she competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing her high school.
When asked about the sub...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 1
Poet Melana Bass, 17, is a junior at TEAM Englewood; she competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing her high school.
‘What would I do withou...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:36
In 2003, Carolyn's 15-year-old daughter, Ortralla, was brutally stabbed by her boyfriend in the hallway of Reagan High School in Austin, TX. Caroly...
- Added: Jan 30, 2011
- Length: 24:45
A sophomore at TEAM Englewood Community High School on Chicago's south side, Melana helped represent Team Englewood in the finals of the 2010 Loude...
Bought by KUER and Remix Radio
- Added: Apr 01, 2010
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 2
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 54:15
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 04:49
Her fouth year in the competition, Dianna says this piece is about Emmett Till's mother. Dianna Harris is 17 years old and was an individual final...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
Her first year in the competition, Esther says this piece is about being made fun of for talking "white". Esther Ikoro is 18 years old and was an ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 01:48
Her fifth year in the competition, Supreme says this piece is about a longing for home (Chicago) and feeling displaced after heading off to college...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:52
Her fifth year in the competition, KeeKey says this piece is about the love of writing, from the perspective of a multi-racial girl (note: in Engli...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 01:34
- Added: Aug 07, 2007
- Length: 04:06
With her amazing voice and sly poetry, this young writer approaches depression head-on. This poet is a student at Steinmetz Academic Centre (Chica...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Mar 22, 2007
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
