PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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Pepper and Ron Miller talk about what led to their divorce.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 07, 2011
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Buy book at waddiewelcome.com, Credit: Inclusion Press
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
Caption: The 5 Stairsteps & Cubie
The Five Stairsteps, The 5 Stairsteps & Cubie, The Stairsteps, The Invisible Mans Band and Keni Burke are the First Family of Soul. They performed ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WUFT, WUFT, KPIP-LP, WJAB and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Bridgette McGee holds a photo of her grandfather, Credit: Teri Havens
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KUT, WRPI, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 22:59
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: One Hello World, Credit: http://www.theonlymagicleftisart.com/
How could anybody be blind to the fact that, underneath it all, we’re all just shadows?

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 3
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Are African-American parents that choose unique or African-sounding names putting their children at a disadvantage? Is society unduly prejudiced ag...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 10:22
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Melonyce McAfee
Kwanzaa is known as a pseudo-holiday, but when Melonyce McAfee and her family tried out, back in the early 90s, it turned out to be more meaningful...

Bought by WSLR, WJAB, WTIP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Khadija Hussein is fourteen, and a Somali refugee living in Lewiston, Maine.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tanya Ward, Credit: Lisa Marie Albert
Tanya Ward shares her experience of recovery from the disease of addiction. In and out of jail from the age of 16, a life on the run, living on one...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 16, 2009
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré believes hard work can build character and promote freedom.

Bought by KPIK-LP, WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 6
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A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:49
Caption: metis/multi"race", Credit: Salon.com - census
People have been trying to think, and identify themselves, outside of "racial" boxes since even before W.E.B. DuBois called the color line the prob...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Feb 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Gabby wasn't too optimistic going into the election. Now he's proud to believe in America.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 2
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Educator and social activist Geoffrey Canada says he believes all children can learn and succeed.

Bought by WEZU, WCSU-FM, WEZU, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 4
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As a young sax player, C.J. Chenier planned to pursue a career in jazz. Then his father Zydeco great Clifton Chenier, recruited his son to play in...

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Nov 20, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Nike executive Howard White believes saying "hello" opens a door to deeper connections with people.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fifty hours a week, at the University of Washington Medical Center ER, Crystal Patterson is so busy that she barely has time to go to the bathroom....

  • Added: Jul 30, 2008
  • Length: 08:55
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Starting a relationship with a dad who's been absent

  • Added: Jul 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:49
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Reflections on My Father

  • Added: Jun 16, 2008
  • Length: 12:54
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today we take a trip outside the city; to the mall with the Jr. Zulu, a youth mentoring program, to teach shoppers how to decorate the infamous Zu...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2008
  • Length: 05:55
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The Battle to Preserve and Honor the New York African Burial Ground

Bought by WJAB, WDSE, and WNYC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Youth-produced piece on growing up in a fatherless household.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2007
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 3
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An Audio Portrait of a Muslim Polygamous Family

  • Added: Nov 01, 2007
  • Length: 11:32
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Washingtonian Yolanda Young believes not having loved her absent father allowed her to forgive him.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 3