Every summer for the past seven decades, 50 high school seniors—one from every state—descend on Mobile, Alabama to take part in one of the country’s most lucrative scholarship competitions for teen girls. The Competition takes you behind the

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Listen Now: New Podcast “Ghost Story”

Oct 23rd, 2023 8m 36s

Tristan Redman is a journalist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in his teenage bedroom – weirder than normal. When, years later, he discovers subsequent occupants of his family home say they have been visited by the ghos

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Introducing Magnificent Jerk

Sep 18th, 2023 3m 58s

On the last day of her grandmother’s life, journalist Maya Lin Sugarman finds a box of forgotten screenplays that sets her on a journey to uncover the truth about their author: her late uncle, Galen. She discovers that he was a leader of a Chin

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Introducing: Classy with Jonathan Menjivar

Jun 30th, 2023 4m 37s

Classy is a collection of surprising stories, juicy and uncomfortable interviews, and engaging segments that explore the ways that class infiltrates our day-to-day lives. In the host seat is Jonathan Menjivar – a working-class Latino kid who jo

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Introducing: Back Issue

Feb 24th, 2023 4m 28s

We’re introducing something special from Pineapple Street Studio: Back Issue Back Issue is BACK with a brand new season! Back Issue reminisces on moments in pop culture’s past that have shaped our present. Each episode brings personal reflect

Introducing: Oprahdemics

Jun 3rd, 2022 5m 35s

We’re bringing you something special this week. We’re introducing a new podcast produced by Radiotopia and PRX, called Oprahdemics – which tries to understand Oprah Winfrey’s impact on our culture. On Oprahdemics… historians, best friends, and

Episode 5: Sound of da Police

Mar 15th, 2022 41m

After four days of unrest, the energy in Crown Heights seems to have calmed. Still, residents are eager to hold someone responsible for the deaths of Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum. In comes Rudolph Giuliani and the violent policing tactics Am

Episode 4: Four Days in August

Mar 8th, 2022 45m 8s

It’s a warm evening in August 1991. Two Guyanese children are playing on the sidewalk when a car in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s motorcade crashes into the two children. The moment ignites a series of events that will change not just Crown Heights,

Episode 3: Things Fall Apart

Mar 1st, 2022 31m 26s

As more and more white people leave New York City for the suburbs, the Chabad-Lubavitchers and Caribbean-Americans remain in Crown Heights. Everyone is talking about violent crime. Private citizens patrol the streets in groups. New York City el

Episode 2: Coming to America

Feb 22nd, 2022 41m 44s

How did Chabad-Lubavitchers and Caribbeans end up buying homes and settling in Crown Heights? Collier Meyerson goes back to the first half of the 20th century to understand how these two groups, from such different places, changed New York City

Episode 1: All Good

Feb 15th, 2022 33m

It’s August 2020 in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Collier Meyerson is at a retirement party for an NYPD officer. Listening to speeches, chatting with guests, watching politicians hobnob with religious leaders, everything seems…all

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Introducing: Love Thy Neighbor

Feb 10th, 2022 3m 22s

Thirty years ago, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, a car accident set off four days of unrest. Two people died. Dozens were injured. Hundreds were arrested. In this Pineapple Street Studios series, journalist Collier Meyerson expl

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