PRX - Pieces for Format: Special

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

244 results


Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series, Credit: Paul Vogelzang
 New Episode Alert!  Dive into history with the Not Old Better Show! ️✨ Join us as Smithsonian historian Jon Grinspan reveals the untold story...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 31:27
Caption: Jefferson Cowie and Kelly Lytle Hernandez examining the Eufaula Tribune archive
Jefferson Cowie’s book Freedom’s Dominion gives the history of white Americans fighting for the freedom to dominate others and won the Pulitzer Pri...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 53:25
Piece image
On June 20 2024, Major League Baseball will host a regular season game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. But the 114-year-old stadium has a...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KERA


  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 51:29
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month". John Biggers

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month". Bessie Coleman

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month". Barbara Jordan

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
Piece image
Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 13:00
Piece image
From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
Piece image
From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, Morehead State Public Radio, WLRH and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
Piece image
I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Echoes of a Coup art, Credit: Zaire McPhearson
One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, Baltimore Public Media, WFDD and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 25
Piece image
Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
Piece image
A centennial tribute to Max Roach, who set the pace for modern jazz drumming and became an outspoken activist for civil rights.

Bought by WSKG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUAT and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Piece image
Welcome to “Unveiling the Ancestors,” a radio special that sheds light on who we are today by looking at WHO came before us. I'm your host, Anne Ho...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2023
  • Length: 53:10
Piece image
How enslaved Americans and Black Americans pushed against the document from the very beginning of our nation’s founding.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 14:42
Piece image
The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 40:50