PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
How did he deal with it? Was his school helpful? What did he learn from it?
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 04:51
- 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
My name is Shawn Hughes. I wrote this piece consciously, recapping one of my most important moments of the year. In the midst of two pandemics, eve...
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 06:54
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
Raven and Eboni are friends who look like each other. And there are not a lot of people who like they do at their college in Missoula, Montana. But...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2019
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1981 — Sports Coordinator, Penn Hills YMCA
Interview by Dominic Burden, Azeiryus Britt & Darrell Holloway
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 04:44
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Coach Craig Williams
Born 1971 — Retired, US Navy;
President, Penn Hills Midget Football Association
Interview by Miguel Jackson & Cameron Griffin
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 04:33
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1959 — Funeral Home Associate, House of Law Inc.
Interview by Cameron Tarrant, Daivon Stephens, Tamar Patillo
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 05:35
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1980 — Executive Director, Penn Hills YMCA
Interview by Garrison Kemp, Raymeir Williams & Ronald Wiggins
Bought by KHSU
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 05:16
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1988 — Community Activist
Interview by David Freeman, Nasheed Goodwine & Lamont Johnson
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 04:33
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1967 — Curator, Allegheny City Historic Gallery
Interview by Daivon Giles & Tyreece Archie
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 05:09
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1970 — Site Manager, YouthPlaces
Interview by Tyreece Archie & Daivon Giles
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 04:55
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1969 — Program Manager, Brothers and Sisters Emerging
Interview by Jordan Franklin, Lydell Price & Ramir Johnson
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 05:19
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1947 — Community Activist, Retired
Interview by Maxwell Martin, Davon Hamlin, Michael Mosley
& Xzavier Rodgers
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 05:23
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1970 —Police Officer, City of Pittsburgh
Interview by Jordan Franklin, Lydell Price & Ramir Johnson
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 05:34
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Born 1969 — President and CEO, Brothers and Sisters Emerging Interview by John Krall, Keylen Kenney & Xzavier Rodgers
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 05:39
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
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Hill District community leader Robert Bowden (b. 1946) reflects on his education, upbringing and life's work based on interviews conducted by stude...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Pittsburgh-based sculptor Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926) reflects on his life and art based on interviews conducted by teens Martay Howard and Wyatt Wad...
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 04:15
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Hip Hop legend Paradise Gray (b. 1964) reflects on becoming an activist and ushering in a new generation of hip-hop based on interviews by teens Da...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Hill District pastor and community leader Johnnie Monroe (b.1941) reflects on the importance of the church and his faith in today’s youth to become...
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 06:33
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Veteran and retired police sergeant Homer Craig (b.1939) reflects on family and community life in Hazelwood based on interviews conducted by teens...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Malik Bankston, Executive Director, The Kingsley Center (b. 1962), reflects on his college experience and his desire to better his community based ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
Pastor and retired paratrooper Donald Turner (b. 1936) reflects on racial tension in his adolescent years and his faith in God based on interviews ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
Does your race affect how you act? Well, it probably affected how you answered that question.... In this award-winning story, hear why one young ma...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 3
