PRX is Ready…

John posted on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 | Blog, Station Newsletters

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Hi friend of PRX,

If you have the urge to go to the Inauguration, it’ll be memorable. And if you have the urge to go at the event it could be, well, miserable. Good luck finding an available port-a-potty.

PRX knows a lot about planning for overwhelming capacity. We’ve seen a massive jump in traffic to the new PRX site since launch. We’re always adjusting to handle the crowd. You do know that with a paid account, you get unlimited storage on PRX. More than enough room for everyone’s…business!

Always prepared!
-John

Black History: Hear

Unique February programming

Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs
The Kitchen Sisters, 53:55
A PRX exclusive
Award-winning actress Alfre Woodard hosts these stories from The Kitchen Sisters collection — stories of black pioneers, self-made men and self-taught women, neighborhood heroes and visionaries. People who said “yes we can” and then did.

LiveHopeLove
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, 52:57
A PRX exclusive
Explore the universal problems faced by people with HIV/AIDS, through the specific lens of Jamaica, where almost no one is unaffected by the disease.

Confronting the Warpland: Black Poets of Chicago
Ed Herrmann, 58:42
Beginning with the early 20th century and continuing to contemporary poets, hear interviews and readings by writers who have made unique contributions to African American literature.

Hear more for Black History Month.

The Obama Inauguration

January 20th is almost here

Barack Obama – The Remix

Peter Bochan, 53:56

The journey to the White House, remixed in words and music, featuring Bill Cosby, Oprah, Chris Rock, Colin Powell, Steve Harvey, Will. i. am, Hillary Clinton, Obama himself, and more.

Browse more pieces about Obama’s life, the election, and presidential history.