PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Caption: Marcus Bullock
Marcus Bullock is the founder of the tech app Flikshop—which allows families to communicate digitally with their loved ones in prison. In this clip...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 05:56
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One Teacher is short form audio content, each vignette is an interview with a story teller where they describe the 'one teacher' that inspired them...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:04
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Born 1981 — Sports Coordinator, Penn Hills YMCA Interview by Dominic Burden, Azeiryus Britt & Darrell Holloway

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 04:44
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Coach Craig Williams Born 1971 — Retired, US Navy; President, Penn Hills Midget Football Association Interview by Miguel Jackson & Cameron Griffin

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 04:33
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Born 1959 — Funeral Home Associate, House of Law Inc. Interview by Cameron Tarrant, Daivon Stephens, Tamar Patillo

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:35
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Born 1980 — Executive Director, Penn Hills YMCA Interview by Garrison Kemp, Raymeir Williams & Ronald Wiggins

Bought by KHSU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Born 1988 — Community Activist Interview by David Freeman, Nasheed Goodwine & Lamont Johnson

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 04:33
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Born 1967 — Curator, Allegheny City Historic Gallery Interview by Daivon Giles & Tyreece Archie

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:09
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Born 1970 — Site Manager, YouthPlaces Interview by Tyreece Archie & Daivon Giles

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 04:55
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Born 1969 — Program Manager, Brothers and Sisters Emerging Interview by Jordan Franklin, Lydell Price & Ramir Johnson

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:19
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Born 1947 — Community Activist, Retired Interview by Maxwell Martin, Davon Hamlin, Michael Mosley & Xzavier Rodgers

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:23
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Born 1970 —Police Officer, City of Pittsburgh Interview by Jordan Franklin, Lydell Price & Ramir Johnson

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:34
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Born 1969 — President and CEO, Brothers and Sisters Emerging Interview by John Krall, Keylen Kenney & Xzavier Rodgers

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 05:39
Caption: Odessa Summers
For 22 years, Philadelphia FIGHT has hosted an entire month of free workshops, trainings, and outreach about HIV and AIDS. This year, Life of the L...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:58
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An emotional and poetic tour of a day in the life of a youth at Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 07:13
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Hill District community leader Robert Bowden (b. 1946) reflects on his education, upbringing and life's work based on interviews conducted by stude...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Pittsburgh-based sculptor Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926) reflects on his life and art based on interviews conducted by teens Martay Howard and Wyatt Wad...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:15
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Hip Hop legend Paradise Gray (b. 1964) reflects on becoming an activist and ushering in a new generation of hip-hop based on interviews by teens Da...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Hill District pastor and community leader Johnnie Monroe (b.1941) reflects on the importance of the church and his faith in today’s youth to become...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:33
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Veteran and retired police sergeant Homer Craig (b.1939) reflects on family and community life in Hazelwood based on interviews conducted by teens...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Malik Bankston, Executive Director, The Kingsley Center (b. 1962), reflects on his college experience and his desire to better his community based ...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Pastor and retired paratrooper Donald Turner (b. 1936) reflects on racial tension in his adolescent years and his faith in God based on interviews ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
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
Caption: Clifford Brown
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:15