PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Caption: Shalvah Lazarus pitching in 2021, Credit: Jen Stillerman
Sixteen-year-old Shalvah Lazarus shares her own story and interviews other young female baseball players about the choice they face when they start...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 09:15
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Jake's been playing baseball since age 4, but his family has been playing for generations.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 04:11
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You don't have to keep your traditions. You can always change them to make them better.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:50
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Kids at Martin Middle School discuss what Dia de los Muertos means to them.

Bought by RADIOLEX, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jessica Hofer, Credit: courtesy Rocky Mountain Treatment Center
Before she started running the horse therapy program at Rocky Mountain Treatment Center in Great Falls, MT, Jessica Hofer was an addict. For her, s...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Physics, math, canyoning between buildings: Not scary. Finding an apartment, learning how to vote: Scary. How one young woman feels about making th...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 03:40
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:19
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Chloe Espinosa, a student at a Catholic school in Santa Fe, NM, explores the issue of gay rights in the context of religion. She interviews a local...

Bought by WDBM and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGXC, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 3
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Shayla Torres dealt with a lot of violence in her last school, where she was a peer mediator. Here, the 17-year-old junior recalls one especially c...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and WGXC


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 3
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Youth producer and radio DJ Yithzak Ledesma explores his love of Tejano music and interviews a local Tejano DJ. Produced at LBJ High School in Aus...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Grampa appreciating, Credit: Probably my Grandmother
A girl who is really, really proud to be from Montana

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, YouthCast, KUOW, KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2009
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 6