PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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National education leaders are trumpeting recent increases in high school graduation rates, yet about 20 percent of kids still dropout before compl...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 04:06
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
The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 1
The tribulations of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, are depicted in the popular film 12 Years a Slave. A soon to be publis...
Bought by WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WLIW
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Public transportation is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than driving a car, but in cities where it is widely used—like New York, Boston ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 05:52
It has been more than 50 years since a small recording company moved into the old Capitol Movie theater on East McLemore Avenue, and took the name ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 20, 2013
- Length: 04:37
- Purchases: 1
This piece examines the gang problem through the eyes of Shelby County Sheriff Sergeant Eldridge, who leads the Street Crimes Unit working to elimi...
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 09:52
The Black Belt of the Deep South stretches from Virginia to Texas. It got its name from the dark, rich soil that made cotton production a highly p...
- Added: Dec 11, 2006
- Length: 07:09
