PRX - Pieces for Topic: Family
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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:00
Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 12:15
When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 26:07
Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 20:54
Feature story about a woman squatting in an abandoned house in Detroit with her family of five.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 20, 2019
- Length: 05:22
- Purchases: 1
Connecting Kids to Meals is a non-profit organization in NW Ohio fighting childhood hunger through a summer and school year meal program. We visit ...
- Added: Jan 21, 2019
- Length: 06:03
For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: May 05, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 04, 2017
- Length: 02:42:35
Sue Taylor talks about saving a county, with music from the late Prince...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 02:52:20
In November 2014 a vibrant young artist named Zoe Cassidy killed himself, leaving a deep wound in the arts community he was a part of.
In this epi...
- Added: Oct 01, 2015
- Length: 33:27
Resources are pretty sparse down here in the Bootheel. No single town has every service to meet the homeless community’s needs. The apartments at S...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:24
Up until fairly recently, the public knew very little about what happens to a woman when she lands in jail and is pregnant. What prenatal services ...
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 10:30
There's a growing body of evidence that many animal species actively grieve. And, a look at how people grieve when their pets die. Plus, how autism...
Bought by WJCT, 'The Sea', KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, and KMXT
- Added: Oct 11, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 5
There's a growing body of evidence that many animal species actively grieve. And, a look at how people grieve when their pets die. Plus, how autism...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Oct 11, 2013
- Length: 53:23
- Purchases: 1
Deafening gunshots rang out just as James Martin arrived home. Troubled by the news of a 17-year-old young man dying in front of his house, he did ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:38
When it comes to giving birth in America, less than 1% of couples choose a "natural birth;" that is a birth with no drugs - and little to no medica...
- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 17:14
Thousands of Nepali speaking refugees from Bhutan are coming to North America. Correspondent Adelaide Chen takes us on a journey with these new arr...
- Added: Jun 05, 2009
- Length: 28:56
Health care reform in Massachusetts has led to a dramatic increase in the number of people with health insurance. But there’s an unintended consequ...
Bought by KRUA and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 26, 2009
- Length: 05:39
- Purchases: 2
A picture of gay America that is rarely portrayed by the media - one of gay Americans who choose to live in small, heartland towns.
Bought by KRCB 104.9, WGBH Radio Boston, and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2008
- Length: 10:35
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jul 30, 2007
- Length: 07:02
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 13, 2007
- Length: 06:38
This Think Piece relating to developing character and values presents a series of scenarios in which kids need good morals to make the right choices.
Bought by Radio Catskill
- Added: May 27, 2005
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 1
A look a life for the elderly in the years before Social Security was created
Bought by WBEZ, New Hampshire Public Radio, WYSO, KVMR, and WSHU
- Added: Mar 30, 2005
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 5
