Convicted and Condemned with Keesha Middlemass
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Air Dates: December 30, 2019-January 5, 2020 With less than 5 percent of the planet’s population, the United States
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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.
Afghanistan Beyond the War with Adela Raz
Air Dates: December 23-29, 2019 Afghanistan is known to most Americans as the site of America’s longest war. Since 2001,
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2019 Story of the Year: The Fracturing of America’s Public Narrative
Air Dates: December 16-22, 2019 Each year since 2013, the Pell Center has announced the public narrative that has had
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Bridging the Divide with Susan Rice
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Air Dates: December 9-15, 2019 Politics, it’s often said, is a tough game. But lost in the back and forth
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The Cost of Child Poverty with Lenette Azzi-Lessing
Air Dates: December 2-8, 2019 For generations, American politicians have promised reducing—or even eliminating—poverty as one of their goals. In
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Blood Libel in an American Town: Antisemitism in the United States with Edward Berenson
Air Dates: November 25-December 1, 2019 On September 22, 1928, a four-year-old girl named Barbara Griffiths disappeared in the woods
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Open Technological Innovation and Tomorrow’s Terrorists with Audrey Kurth Cronin
Air Dates: November 11-17, 2019 After Alfred Nobel developed dynamite, his invention reshaped the world—literally. From mining to infrastructure projects,
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“Story in the Public Square” will Debut Fourth National Season on Public Television January 6, 2020
Newport, R.I. – The two-time Telly Award-winning series Story in the Public Square will continue to be broadcast across the
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World with Dr. John Halpern and David Blistein
Air Dates: November 4-10, 2019 In 2017, opioid addiction claimed nearly 50,000 American lives—that’s as many Americans as were lost
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