PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American

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Generation Justice celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day! We read some impactful words from Dr. Bernice King, his daughter, regarding the trage...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 04:14
Caption:  Brandon D. Anderson, veteran of the U.S. Army., Credit: Ben Bloodwell
Brandon Anderson spent nearly five years in the Army, deploying twice to Iraq between 2003 and 2008. But as a gay service member during the Don’t A...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, KUT, RadioStPete Florida, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KDNK, WNYE, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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An interview with National Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin who at 95 shares her prespective as an African-American woman during the Second World War ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 22:16
  • Purchases: 2
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A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 18:59
Caption: Richard Mosse in front of one of his Aerochrome images
Richard Mosse’s images of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of The Congo, are shot on film which is no longer made. In the past, it ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
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William and Yvonne Russell talk about life after his return from Vietnam; and how they dealt with PTSD before the term existed.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
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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
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Poet Yusef Komunyakaa reads from and discusses his latest collection, WARHORSES (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2008).

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 16:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Vietnam Veteran and drug therapist Woody Curry returns to Vietnam forty years later.

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUOW, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
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How one man went from an African war zone to performing on the stages of California.

Bought by KUSP and KVMR


  • Added: Feb 02, 2006
  • Length: 16:55
  • Purchases: 2