PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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His early depression gave way to acceptance when he came to understand what made him different.
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Apr 28, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Hi I’m Makayla and my piece is about my adventures being a fifth grade reject.
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 13:40
This hour is dedicated to listening to members of our Black community. They share their experience and responses to recent social uprisings and the...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 59:08
Episode 31
Two years ago on July 28th, Houda’s family stepped off a plane into the intense Tucson heat. They weren’t sure what was in store for the...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:38
After we finished recording this episode over coffee at Safaa and Sedra’s apartment, Houda said that it was the most important episode we have reco...
- Added: Aug 17, 2018
- Length: 04:30
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
Daquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis laments losing a best friend.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis, writes about moving forward despite having to struggle
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 1
Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School, tells about the experiences that hade him what he is. A good deal of pathos is included.
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:35
- Purchases: 2
When Maryama Abdi came with her family to this country from Somalia, she left behind someone very dear to her.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 01:49
Melvin talks about what it's like being from New Orleans.
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 01:20
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 02:04
A sister tries to reacquaint herself with her older brother during a cross country road trip only to realize it might not be so simple a task.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Oct 10, 2012
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 1
We all have different stories to tell.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 2
Youth producer Gracia Manzanares' touching interview with her mother about immigrating to the United States and the differences between women in Me...
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 03:07
YouthCast features a love story in honor of civil unions between same sex couples being recognized in the state of Illinois and the marriages of co...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WGXC
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 2
For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 01:55
- Purchases: 2
"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison ...
Bought by WGDR
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 14:58
- Purchases: 1
A poem by three students from the Santa Fe Indian School's Spoken Word team -- Santana Shorty, Clara Natonabah, and Nolan Eskeets -- about understa...
- Added: Apr 21, 2010
- Length: 03:38
A teenager explains what it's like to grow up with epileptic seizures. Gaining independence is hard work.
Bought by KHSU and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Feb 17, 2010
- Length: 09:34
- Purchases: 2
This year about 750,000 teenagers will become pregnant. According to The Centers for Disease Control teen pregnancy has risen three percent in 200...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 28, 2009
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 1
Hilary Uselu performs her piece Mother/Father, slamming about environmental situations from the point of view of Mother Earth.
- Added: Jul 13, 2009
- Length: 04:59
A young high school student tells the story of a decision that changes her life..
- Added: Jul 13, 2009
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 3
