PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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OutCaster Justin talks about what it means to LGBTQ youth, especially struggling youth, to see LGBTQ people elected to public office.
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 07:00
Elena from El Salvador was excited to come to the United States but found her predicament for her and her son difficult. Not knowing any English, s...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 06:39
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This week, we begin with the story of a woman who was in flight to the US when President Trump signed his first travel ban. We later hear about how...
- Added: Jul 13, 2018
- Length: 29:59
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Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.
- Added: Feb 27, 2018
- Length: 05:00
On this episode of Palestinians Podcast we hear from author Wafa Ghnaim about her struggle with being the daughter of immigrants in the United Stat...
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 37:13
When racism changes everything.
A late night recitation on that teenage decision of what will be your identity in matter of your friend's racism...
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- Added: Nov 24, 2016
- Length: 05:42
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Need relief from all the juvenile antics of campaign season? From PRX's Radiotopia, "MORTIFIED'S TOTALLY JUVENILE ELECTION SPECIAL" is your antidot...
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- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 51:58
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We hear from Amer Zahr, a comedian, writer, and activist who resides in Dearborn Michigan in this episode of Palestinians Podcast. Amer shares chil...
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 40:27
Is live theatre still relevant? Why do I spend my summers doing family-friendly theatre in small towns?
- Added: Jul 23, 2015
- Length: 08:27
In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
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"She called us on the phone and said, 'You will not be allowed to return to the Y.'"
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- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 08:32
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What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 11:00
What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 21:09
I really wish Donald Sterling wasn't quite the jerk that he is, because his case gives the push-back against our loss of civil liberties a bad nam...
- Added: May 03, 2014
- Length: 02:17
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
The image of India has changed in American eyes, yet so has America's image... in Indian eyes.
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.
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- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 04:30
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Charmil Davis talking to the US Congress from New Jersey Donald Payne Jr.
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 09:40
A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 04:47
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 20:05
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
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When the votes are counted, the election night parties are over and the mud-slinging stops, voters (according to...
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 04:59
