PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
New York Times columnist Charles Blow, one of America's most innovative and respected journalists, has written a redemptive memoir that fits both t...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:49
Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This pre-season sneak-peek features singer and songwriter, Ge...
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 13:37
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
We traveled to San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison, to learn about the lasting tradition of arts and spoken word in this well know...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 10:26
- Purchases: 1
We asked poet Kyes Steven of Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to record a workshop for us. Take a listen.
Prison Poetr...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 2
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:52
- Purchases: 1
New York City Subway Conductor Paquita Williams talks to one of her passengers, Laura Lane, about her job.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WEZU, and KMUD
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 01:51
- Purchases: 3
My Choice My Voice teen talks about his transformation from a "troubled kid" to a high school graduate headed to college. Meanwhile, we hear his re...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 12:37
- Purchases: 1
This month's Tin Roof Project features Simeon Wright, author of Simeon Speaks, the first eyewitness account of the kidnapping and murder of his cou...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 42:00
In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:00
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 1
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:19
As the 2009 ACORN scandal quickly unfolded and funding started to dry up, the groups’ members and organizers had to jump ship. Many formed new loc...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
This week our writers grapple with the colors that separate, whether black, brown, or white. Stories by Tyler Thompson, Leslie Epps, and Jennifer M...
- Added: Aug 25, 2012
- Length: 29:00
In this conversation, Juanita Brown wanted to go beyond the hype that President Obama's election marked "the end of history" in American race relat...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 38:28
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 44:14
WUNC is a part of the American Graduate Project. It's a public media initiative looking at the drop out crisis across the country. As a part of thi...
Bought by KZYX and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 2
The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.
Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious visits with Randall Kennedy, author of "The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency," and "Nigger:The...
- Added: Oct 31, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Lady E tells me that some nights when she’s finished singing and returns to her apartment and is having trouble with the zipper on her dress, she’l...
- Added: Oct 15, 2011
- Length: 56:36
Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...
- Added: Aug 31, 2011
- Length: 29:00
This show features the work of younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
A college professor is following the footsteps of a civil rights icon James Farmer, by training his students in the art of debate. Lydia Wilson, ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez became immortalized on the silver screen when Robert Downey, Jr., portrayed him in the 2009 movie THE SOLOIST, bas...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
Changing our place in the world, through philosophy and math skills.
- Added: Jan 28, 2010
- Length: 29:01
