Financial Literacy for All

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location My Extraordinary Life: Growing up in Pawtucket The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, Mosaic, has a series of community essays. This one is by Marcy Reyes. She writes about her goal to end generational poverty in BIPOC communities in Rhode Island.  When I […]

My Extraordinary Life: Growing up in Pawtucket

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location My Extraordinary Life: Growing up in Pawtucket The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, Mosaic, has a series of community essays. This one is called “My Extraordinary Life: Living in Pawtucket” by Marcia Cardoso. She writes about her childhood experiences as a Cape Verdean […]

The Seekonk River Bridge

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location The Silence of Suicide The Public’s Radio’s podcast, Mosaic, has a series of community essays. This one is called “The Seekonk River Bridge” by Marissa Gallerani, a writer living in Providence, Rhode Island. The first time I saw the Seekonk River Bridge was […]

The Silence of Suicide

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location The Silence of Suicide The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, Mosaic, has a series of community essays. This one is called “The Silence of Suicide” by Amy Dunkle  is a professor at the University of Rhode Island. She writes about her mother’s suicide […]

A Birthday Promise to My Mother

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location A Birthday Promise to My Mother The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, Mosaic, has a series of community essays. This one is called “A Birthday Promise to My Mother” by Richard Lawrence. The exact year is unknown, but this story begins around the […]

Growing up in Smith Hill

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, Mosaic, has a series of community essays. This one is called “Remembering Smith Hill” by David Torres. I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, in the Smith Hill neighborhood. We came from a small place in El […]

The Dream

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, Mosaic, has a series of community essays. This one is called “The Dream” by Ruth Machie who lives in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. I remember it was a February afternoon, the snow was coming down, I was excited. I […]

What’s Real?

Mosaic Community Essays  The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, Mosaic, has a series of community essays. This one is by Eve Kerrigan [KER-iginan] a writer and actor living in Cranston, Rhode Island.  Her essay is titled “What’s Real?” The text said, “Happy Birthday! Hope you had a blast!!!! Truly yours, xhusband.” There were heart emojis […]

Being a Kurd is the Hardest Job in the World

Mosaic Community Essays I think most people will find the title of this article exaggerated and many will reject it. I was 7 years old when I first heard this phrase and I did not understand what my uncle meant. Over the years, it’s become real to me. Who were we? Why was it so […]

Life Stopped in Evin Prison

Mosaic Community Essays I, Mohammad H. Fallahiya, was born in 1975 in Ahwaz region in the southern part of Iran. In 2006 I was arrested in Tehran. I was considered a threat to national security. I worked as a journalist and a teacher. I spent more than 3 years in Evin prison from 2006-2009.  They […]