PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:23
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career retrospective of blues/jazz singer Helen Humes

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, and KUHB


  • Added: Mar 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 5
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A long-lost Bay Area soul singer, newly found.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WMPG


  • Added: Mar 12, 2006
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 2
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Here's why Cornell Park is the hot place to be.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 02:17
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life & career of Big Mama Thornton

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, KHNS, WEFT, WJAB and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 7

  • Added: Feb 23, 2006
  • Length: 02:50
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Thomas Jefferson wrote it, and we say we believe it, but

  • Added: Feb 23, 2006
  • Length: 27:58
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review of Tail Dragger's recent album "My Head Is Bald"

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, and KUHB


  • Added: Feb 22, 2006
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 5
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Profile of William Grant Still, the dean of black classical composers, with excerpts of an interview with his daughter Judy.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2006
  • Length: 19:57
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Profile of classical and jazz artist Bobby McFerrin, with interview excerpts

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2006
  • Length: 30:02
  • Purchases: 3
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Four-part series that profiles opera star Denyce Graves, with interview excerpts

Bought by WNMU-FM and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Feb 21, 2006
  • Length: 20:01
  • Purchases: 2
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A series of four short programs that examine the song known as the Black national anthem.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WHFR, RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2006
  • Length: 19:53
  • Purchases: 7
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A 15 year-old, five-foot tall girl explores why basketball is important to her.

Bought by WMNF, 90.5 WSNC, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 20, 2006
  • Length: 07:50
  • Purchases: 3
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Baltimore poet and MC Slick Vic Low reflects on his childhood and his longterm relationship with the microphone

Bought by KUCB


  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 16, 2006
  • Length: 02:31

  • Added: Feb 16, 2006
  • Length: 02:36
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Nanci Olesen describes her (very positive) reaction to Rise Up Singing, Black Women Writers on Motherhood

  • Added: Feb 16, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
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A student's journey in search of hope

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2006
  • Length: 09:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Kevin Phinney looks at race relations, as seen through the prism of music.

Bought by KUHB


  • Added: Feb 10, 2006
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Gospel and Soul singer David Dye reports on Mavis Staples and her family's beginnings and artistic evolution.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WUMB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northwest Public Broadcasting, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Feb 09, 2006
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 5
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Film-maker Kevin Willmott talks about his mockumentary CSA.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2006
  • Length: 13:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Music & Interview, "The Color Purple", Brenda's music "Past & Present"

Bought by WJAB and WSGE


  • Added: Feb 08, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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A commentary about Alito, Corretta Scott King and Civil Rights

  • Added: Feb 08, 2006
  • Length: 03:10
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Host David Dye reports on soulman Al Green, the musical legend who has learned to balance the spiritual and secular in his music and his life.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WUMB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., 90.5 WSNC, KCUR and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2006
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 6
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England's Linton Kwesi Johnson is the inventor of dub poetry. He's also been making reggae music about the Black experience in Great Britain since...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WUMB, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Feb 03, 2006
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 3