PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative
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From Antonín Dvorak's “New World Symphony” through Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land”, James Baldwin’s visions of a “Native Son” into the lat...
- Added: Jan 18, 2019
- Length: 59:25
I'm not about to declare continental living a danger to one's health, but I'm starting to wonder. What is it about small, isolated places surrounde...
- Added: Sep 16, 2018
- Length: 13:08
In the spring of 1967, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had an experience that changed his thinking about America, and his own responsibilities. His awake...
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- Added: Apr 05, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
What we do for our children today will have a major impact on the future of democracy.
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- Added: Dec 21, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
On a sunny morning during her junior year of high school, Noel Gasca was taking the SAT, when she got to a question that left her stumped. It basic...
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- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 05:57
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People sometimes take unlikely paths to get where they're going. This is the story of an unlikely scholar.
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- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
RadioActive producer Kamna Shastri tries to understand where she fits into conversations about race and identity as an Indian-American with albinism.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:52
Neighborhoods shape our perspectives and our personalities. They become a part of us, an identity we carry even if we leave. On the latest RadioAct...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 19:21
Elinor Jones Toutant was homeschooled for most of her education, even though her family isn't one you'd expect to make that choice.
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 05:03
Guilt can haunt any parent whose child commits suicide. That’s especially true for a murder-suicide.
- Added: Jul 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This audio feature is produced by Nour Ibrahim as she attempts to go on an Islamic fast.
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- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 03:31
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Two generations of law enforcement recount the rewards and hardships of living in uniform.
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 14:11
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq.
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 03:03
It’s not unusual for a new president to find the adjustment from candidate to leader to be jolting but President Trump’s first week in office has b...
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- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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Here's Gerald's audio book review of My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson by Milton Erickson and Sidney Rosen.
- Added: Jan 12, 2017
- Length: 02:17
We hear from Munir Jirmanus, a physicist near Boston, MA about his multiple experiences and encounters with the concept of "home." Munir tells a nu...
- Added: Jan 04, 2017
- Length: 26:19
The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...
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- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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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
- Purchases: 1
The Art League's program changes lives through art.
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- Added: Nov 17, 2016
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 4
The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency
From: Guy RathbunSeries: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
The Glass Ceiling: That’s a term that’s been bandied about for some time. Those women who reach the top of their field whether it’s in business or ...
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- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 42:13
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Black girls make up for more than one-third of all girls with school related arrests. Yet, they comprise just 16-percent of female students.
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- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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In the winter of 2009, a social worker with the Iowa Department of Human Services, received an anonymous tip:
A couple dozen disabled men were liv...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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Imagine a large population of Americans living in prison-like-conditions. That’s what it’s like in the so-called Black Belt of South Side Chicago.
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- Added: Aug 09, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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