PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Primary care doctor Tseganesh Selameab brings us inside her practice as a provider for immigrants and refugees, and describes one of the most commo...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 39:02
Race and Identity at Home is a narrated public radio audio feature exploring parenting in multicultural families with Kristin Leong and Diana Opong...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 17:47
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
As healthcare workers, many of us have had to leave our home and go wherever our profession takes us. This week we asked you to reflect on what hom...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 31:03
- Purchases: 1
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother. It's a tragic love stor...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 38:13
- Purchases: 2
One Teacher is short form audio content, each vignette is an interview with a story teller where they describe the 'one teacher' that inspired them...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 02:04
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
How do you feel about the future? Do you feel hopeful? Do you feel scared? Can we move forward together as a country? In our Season 1 finale, Carve...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 30:48
- Purchases: 1
How do you stand against evil, but not the evildoer? How do you go to war for what's right with love for the people you're fighting? Carvell Wallac...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 38:36
Do you love America? No, seriously, Carvell Wallace wants to know: do you love America? Today, he talks with Van Jones and Rabia Chaudry about love...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 39:18
It's like visiting a small town...but it's also like visiting the remaining survivors of an apocalypse. Carvell Wallace goes to his hometown of McK...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 32:01
Going out and talking to people is a little thing, but it's also a big thing. Especially if those people are different from you, or might not like ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 01:01:00
How can we come together as a country when it seems like so many things are working to keep us apart? Host Carvell Wallace turns to Shereen Marisol...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 01:09:48
Who or what is in your own past right now that you need to face, but aren’t facing—and why not? Carvell Wallace has a theory that maybe this whole ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 57:02
Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.
- Added: Feb 27, 2018
- Length: 05:00
Nashua, NH Police Sergeant, Lakeisha Phelps is one of two black police officers on a force with 176 police officers, in one of New Hampshire’s most...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
Interrupting my Saturday night music radio show with some words about Muhammad Ali who passed earlier in the day. Ali's impact on me as an 8th gra...
- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 46:15
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
In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
If James Brown was the Godfather of Soul, George Clinton remains the undisputed Crown Prince of Funk.
Parliament-Funkadelic. Flashlight. The Mothe...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 04:59
In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:04
Joshua Sirotiak seeks out the history of Second Line Jazz culture in New Orleans. Along the way, he finds a few answers to questions about his own ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 2
When Radio Rookie Danielle Motindabeka came to the United States at age 13, she didn’t speak English. By the time she was in high school, Danielle ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
