PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Many incarcerated people are also parents. Their children navigate social stigma and barriers to staying in contact with their loved ones.
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 58:23
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
Jonny Morales, 18, worries that COVID-19 will overwhelm the healthcare system he's gotten to know so well from his ER visits.
- Added: Apr 16, 2020
- Length: 03:35
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School 2016-17 Stories
Series: Martin Middle School 2016-17 Stories
Kids at Martin Middle School discuss what Dia de los Muertos means to them.
Bought by RADIOLEX, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 3
Have you ever stuck with something that was difficult because you knew the reward was worth the journey? Follow Robert Franklin’s day as he prepare...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 05:21
How do you save an important piece of your past while building your future?
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 06:39
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
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:34
When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 05:35
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
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
Annie confronts her brother about his lying.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WJCT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 17, 2013
- Length: 12:14
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 07:15
Erika Kooda shares a short essay on some monumental changes she faces in 2013. From graduating high school and entering Columbia College in Chicago...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:58
- Purchases: 2
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: 01:25
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: 01:31
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 05:12
This week, our stories are all about turning points, as our writers move from innocence to knowledge, their lives forever changed. Stories by Sarah...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
This week's stories are all about the lasting impact of grandmothers, whether we like it or not. Stories by Jennifer Miller, Mary Button, and Carla...
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week our writers go up against the elements of water, fire, and earth-- and live to tell the tale. Stories by David Prud'homme, Holly Patton, ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Lee Mier is a student manager of the Minneapolis Edison girls basketball team. It was exciting to get to the championship game last year.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
High School is not an easy time of life. Minneapolis Edison students Breanna Koger and Jazzmin Keys collaborate to tell the world about it.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
At Minneapolis Edison High School, the football coach places a lot of defensive responsibility on the linebackers. And that suits student Jesse Cla...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
"Family Tree" is a short piece written and produced by Andres Ortiz. His piece is a journey into Ortiz's unknown family history. Growing up being...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 06:08
- Purchases: 1
