Brining Big Topics to the Big Screen with Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Documentary filmmakers take us into the lives of their subjects in a way that the written word can’t capture. We see what they see. We get a sense of ...
Story in the Public Square
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“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 a partnership between the Pell Center and The Providence Journal, and is directed by visiting fellow G. Wayne Miller with Pell Center executive director Jim Ludes.
Fighting for Human Rights for All Americans with Kylar Broadus
The Human Rights Campaign estimates that there are 2 million transgender people living in the United States, today. Yet Kylar Broadus says the fight f...
Uncovering the Truth Behind a Haunting Holocaust Photograph with Wendy Lower
In 2009, an acclaimed historian of the Holocaust was shown a picture of one family’s execution by Ukrainian allies of the Nazis some 70 years earlier....
Exploring Heartache Through Word and Music with Dessa
Everyone of us knows heartache—the sweet melancholy of a love that just doesn’t work. Multi-talented Dessa traces much of her musical inspiration to t...
Harnessing Love as a Force for Pivotal Change with Valarie Kaur
Love is the stuff of poetry, and heartache, and hope, and songs. Valarie Kaur says love can be revolutionary and is needed as a public ethic to confr...
Earning, Learning and Serving: Jamie Merisotis on Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines
The prognosticators of doom would have you believe that humanity is cursed to a future without work as Artificial Intelligence replaces people in the ...
Discussing The State of Asian-American-Targeted Violence with Janelle Wong
Hate crimes are nothing new to members of the Asian American community. Dr. Janelle Wong helps us put them in historical context—from the Asian Exclu...
Capturing Life in Lyric and Melody with Mariee Sioux
Folk music has a long and rich tradition in the United States, telling stories by capturing life in lyric and melody. Singer-songwriter Mariee Sioux ...
Jonathan Karp Matches Books with their Readers
Books have always seemed like self-contained worlds to me. Pick up a book, and you can transport yourself to any time in history—or the future. Delve...
Creating a Collective Urban Experience with Julian Chambliss
The analytical mind can explain the world around us, but the creative mind can help create our future. Dr. Julian Chambliss explores the power of Afro...