PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Conchetta Brown and her daughter, Nidera Brown, discuss their close relationship in life and in death.
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
For Black History Month, we'll hear from Patricia Smith, the author of eight poetry books and the 2021 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for li...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
81-year-old Navy veteran Joseph Patton remembers his service and the discrimination he faced as a gay man in the 1950s.
Bought by KALW
- Added: Feb 09, 2021
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
In 1969, Civil Rights leader Edwin Pratt was assassinated in his own home with his wife and daughter, Miriam, present. Miriam Pratt and her godmoth...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 02:37
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Charme churns through the rough St. Louis Public Schools while she is going through her gender transition.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 08:37
- Purchases: 1
Gwen Moten remembers her childhood best friend, Denise McNair, who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WTJU
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 01:41
- Purchases: 2
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
A young boy's father is killed in Somalia, as he makes his way to a camp in Kenya. After a long journey, now in the US, he doesn't feel discriminat...
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 08:51
Ayodeji Ogunniyi describes how the death of his father inspired him to become a teacher.
- Added: Dec 27, 2011
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 2
A.P. Tureaud Jr. tells his friend Steven Walkley about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.
Bought by WEZU, KUOW, and Vocalo.org
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 3
Mary Morris remembers her husband, Thomas, one of two Washington D.C. postal workers who died from exposure to anthrax in October, 2001.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Oct 13, 2011
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 1
George Robinson tells his daughter, Katie, about meeting his biological father after searching for more than 40 years.
Bought by WEZU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 3
