The Dreamer Through the Nightmare

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location The Healing Journey  This week’s essay is by Osiris Grafals. She writes about coming to the U.S. illegally when she was a child and the hardships she faced because of being undocumented.  To listen to this story, click the play button above. My […]

Remembering Those We Have Lost

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location Remembering Those We Have Lost The Public’s Radio’s podcast Mosaic has a series of community essays. This essay is by Dr. Michael Fine, a writer, community organizer, and family physician.   On June 25th 2022,  Rhode Islanders came to the installation of the […]

The Fierce Thing

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location The Fierce Thing The Public’s Radio’s podcast Mosaic has a series of community essays. This essay is by Jon Lavieri, a writer and ESL teacher for the Providence Public Library’s Rhode Island Family Literacy Initiative program (RIFLI).  It’s early one fall evening in […]

Returning Home

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location Returning Home The Public’s Radio’s podcast Mosaic has a series of community essays. This essay is by Sean O’Connor, a science educator and co-owner of NewportOut, an organization that serves LGBTQ+ visitors and the LGBTQ+ community in Newport, Rhode Island. A little over […]

Ukraine: Where do we go from here?

Mosaic Community Essays –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location –––– Ethnicity Location Ukraine: Where do we go from here? The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, Mosaic, has a community essay series. This essay is by Artem Agvanian, a student at Brown University. Artem is from Mariupol, Ukraine. He writes about his hometown and the future […]