PRX - Pieces for Topic: Family

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Nike executive Howard White believes saying "hello" opens a door to deeper connections with people.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 3
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Reflections on My Father

  • Added: Jun 16, 2008
  • Length: 12:54
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Washingtonian Yolanda Young believes not having loved her absent father allowed her to forgive him.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 3
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Choreographer Judith Jamison believes being "good" includes being open, honest and true to oneself.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Mar 30, 2007
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 3
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With a black father that wanted to be darker and an aunt that passed for white, Novana writes about how to accept her biracial identity. This poet...

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
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One young writer's lessons learning from a family member with a mental disability. This poet is a student at Oak Park-River Forest High School (IL).

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:27
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Partners in music, and in life, for somewhere around 50 years ...

Bought by PRX Remix, KGLT, and KGLT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2007
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 3
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Ordinary people recall how they participated in the Civil Rights Movement now fifty years after it's advent.

Bought by WSKG and KRPS


  • Added: Jan 03, 2007
  • Length: 52:32
  • Purchases: 2
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New York City Finance Commissioner Martha Stark believes numbers shape our lives more than we realize.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 3
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Listener Phyllis Allen once defined her beliefs by social movements. Now, she finds them in herself.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:15
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Renowned pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson believes he owes his life and career to his mother.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WJAB, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 3
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Journalist John W. Fountain believes God offered him more parenting than his father ever could have.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, WNIN, and KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 4
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Kentucky poet Frank X Walker believes creativity helps people stay happy and enriches our world.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KJZZ, and KWCW


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 4
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A remembrance of a special woman, my godmother

  • Added: Apr 22, 2006
  • Length: 04:29
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Nanci Olesen describes her (very positive) reaction to Rise Up Singing, Black Women Writers on Motherhood

  • Added: Feb 16, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
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A young man's visit to his Godmother's African-American Baptist church

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Feb 01, 2005
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 1