PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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Caption: BLM rally in North Hollywood, Credit: Jed Alexander
Even in complicated times, we tend to forget the simplicity of, “why we protest” even if the issue is a no-brainer or has complicated edges. We kno...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 07:34
Caption: Dan Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Rain - In March 2004, Dan Bazile joined the news team at WNYT (a television affiliate of NBC), where he anchors "Weekend Today". Prior to that, he ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:35
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What's could be controversial about a movement insisting that Black lives matter too?

Bought by KSKQ, WTJU, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ, KRZA and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Robin Washington at the Ramsey County Courthouse in St. Paul, Minn., awaiting the verdict in the trial of Officer Jeronimo Yanez in the shooting death of Philando Castile.
One year ago this week, July 6, Philando Castile was shot to death by Officer Jeronimo Yanez in suburban St. Paul. Commentator Robin Washington a...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:59
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Jim Sims and Liz Mitchell host Cherrish Pryor, Chairwoman of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus. Hear how the caucus is advancing the primary co...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
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Jim Sims and William Hosea host a special show with two interviews previewing Black History Month in the community. City of Bloomington has adopted...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:47
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Beverly Calender- Anderson and Leila Randle speak with Gary radio producer and personality Dinahlynn Biggs, host of the syndicated “Dinahlynn Biggs...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:20
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Cornelius Wright and William Hosea speak with Jim Sims, the newly elected president of the Monroe County Branch of the National Association for the...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 58:40
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William Hosea and Amrita Meyers speak with Stanley N-ju-guna, Jacob Mills, and Nick Greven, leaders of student organizations Students for a Democra...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 54:05
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This week, we focus on a topic that is close to many of us on the outside: the story and struggle of political prisoner and Ohio death row inmate B...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:54
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William Hosea and Leila Randle hear about the Indiana University Thomas I. Atkins Living Learning Center and The Twenty-First Century Scholar Progr...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 58:19
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Brittney Packnett gives a passionate speech to honor the civil rights leader birthday.

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The most popular destinations for Megabus routes out of New Orleans are Atlanta and Houston., Credit: Eve Abrams
Ten years after New Orleans flooded following Hurricane Katrina, the city has changed. New Orleans is now home to far fewer Black people and far fe...

Bought by KZYX and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2015
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Students at Lewiston High launched a town wide dialogue about race after the principal ordered to students to take down posters proclaiming “Black ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: The Story of Black America: From Slavery to Civil Rights and the Modern Era
In-depth documentary on the Story of Black America - from slavery to the civil rights movement. It’s fast-paced with a great original musical score...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 14, 2012
  • Length: 17:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Last Words of the Executed by Robert K. Elder
Elder collected the final words of American serial killers, psychopaths and more. The book has an introduction by the late journalist Studs Terkel.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:53
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Keith Plessy, descendant of Homer Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, great, great grandaughter of Judge John Ferguson, both litigants in the 1896 Supreme ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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This year's college graduates weigh in on what's next for the American Dream, in this piece by Jordan Nelson of KOSU in Stillwater, Okla.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:33
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Two years ago, 166 Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans ended up in Omaha, Nebraska. Two years out, one man is trying hard--perhaps too hard...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT-HD


  • Added: Dec 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 2
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A mother remembers her murdered son, as well as a look at what needs to be done to reduce inner-city street violence

  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 04:30
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A commentary about Alito, Corretta Scott King and Civil Rights

  • Added: Feb 08, 2006
  • Length: 03:10