Dead Man Walking: Life, Death and Justice with Sister Helen Prejean
Rebroadcast Dates: April 13-19, 2020 Original Air Dates: April 21-27, 2018 Since 1976, nearly 1,500 Americans have been executed in
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Story in the Public Square
“Story in the Public Square” is a year-round initiative to study and celebrate public storytelling. It features an annual conference, lectures, awards and student contests, as well as original scholarship about public storytelling and how those stories can affect the public debate.
Story in the Public Square is directed by Ocean State Stories Director G. Wayne Miller with Pell Center Executive Director Jim Ludes.
Celebrating the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage with Susan Ware
Air Dates: April 6-12, 2020 The history of the American women’s suffrage movement is the history of determined community organizing,
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Advocacy in Crisis with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
Rebroadcast Dates: March 30-April 3, 2020 In April 2014, officials in Flint, Michigan, switched the source of the city’s water
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Defense and Climate Change: Adapting to a Changing Physical Landscape with Michael Klare
Air Dates: March 16-22, 2020 The partisan split on climate change is unmistakable. Democrats view the climate as one of
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The Makings of Mass Incarceration in the United States with Elizabeth Hinton
Air Dates: March 9-15, 2020 While the United States contains less than five percent of the planet’s population, it has
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Telling the Stories of the Voiceless with Sara Jordenö
Air Dates: March 2-8, 2020 In the course of producing “Story in the Public Square” each week, co-hosts Jim Ludes
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Experiencing Climate Change Through Story with Elizabeth Rush
Air Dates: February 24-March 1, 2020 Climate change is reshaping America’s coast-line—from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico; from Staten
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The Expanding News Desert with Penny Abernathy
Air Dates: February 17-23, 2020 It wasn’t so long ago that small and mid-sized American communities were served by multiple
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Telling the Stories of War with Mark Jacobson
Air Dates: February 10-16, 2020 War stories—whether the stuff of memoir or fictional portrayals of people at war—are mainstays of
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