PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
A caring black musician is dedicated to convincing Ku Klux Klansmen to leave the organization through the power of music and conversation.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "Shock Value" - When ...
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes world-renowned singer-songwriter plus electric husband & wife roots duo W...
Bought by Radio Bristol, WEJP-LP 107.1, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: May 04, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 24
If Black Lives Matter, how are journalists and media organizations considering Black pain in their coverage? And how are journalists and editors ac...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KWMR
- Added: Apr 21, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
One of America’s first Black female Marines talks about boot camp below the Mason-Dixon line, military service, her inspirational life journey and ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 40:42
A prepatory school in disheveled Newark New Jersey successfully helps young men reach their highest potential.
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 02:21
From Jamaica, Rosie Gordon-Wallace is a globally recognized curator, arts advocate, and community leader based in Miami, Florida, since the 1970s. ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 19:01
Ingrid Douglas never finished high school as a teenager. When she started looking for a better job at age sixty, she found not having a degree was ...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, three conversations about community storytelling. If listening is an act of love, then storytelling could be...
Bought by Morehead State Public Radio and WRGY
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Lowell Fulson was a blues icon with a great history and is still an influence today to many blues musicians.
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 59:47
Actor and director Tyler Perry is drawing on his own painful past to give others a better future.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:27
Every school day in February, first grade teacher LaToya McGriff dresses up to teach Black History.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Bard College, a small Private University in New York State, offers the Bard Prison Initiative, or BPI, to interested inmates who have committed ser...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:33
Ballerina Aesha Ash is on a mission, to help change the often demoralizing, objectified images of African-American women, and she’s doing it, in a ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:30
We'll hear and celebrate the voices of women: Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, Joan Armatrading, and civil rights heroine Fanny Lou Hamer on this women'...
- Added: Mar 05, 2021
- Length: 01:57:59
- Purchases: 11
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Newest release from a Blues veteran, Nora Jean Wallace, who has been missing in action for the past 16 years.
- Added: Mar 03, 2021
- Length: 59:59
Renowned author Yaa Gyasi, whose novel Homegoing won the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book and the Pen/Hemingwa...
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 01:21:49
The first electric Blues artist to use a Fender Stratocaster given to him by Leo Fender himself.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Every March, a number of college basketball teams square off in a tournament called March Madness. So, we thought we'd put up our own best players ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 01:50:40
Join us as author Fatima Shaik uncovers the hidden history of a free Black brotherhood that was almost lost forever.
- Added: Feb 21, 2021
- Length: 24:52
On this week’s On Story Emmy Award® winning television producer, actor, comedian and writer Larry Wilmore discusses the creation of the influential...
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 53:57
Kevin Clash made Sesame Street’s Elmo the global phenomenon he is today. He worked with The Muppets starring as Clifford, who went on to host Mupp...
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 01:34:21
We're talking about chess on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries! We'll join Warren Woodberry, the founder of multiple award-winning aft...
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 06:04
The number of Black-owned farms has drastically declined since the 1920s, and now make up less than two percent of total U.S. farmland. In this epi...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 21:23
- Purchases: 1
