Axel Gutierrez

Axel Gutierrez was a junior at Grace King High School in New Orleans.

Learning Division

by Axel Gutierrez

A young boy details the last memory of his father.

Taiyiana Robinson

Taiyiana Robinson was a freshman at Grace King High School in New Orleans.

Alone No More

by Taiyiana Robinson

A girl has a hard time in a new school.

Judy Gold

Judy Gold is an actor and comedian, best known as the star of the Off Broadway one-woman show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother. She recently starred in It's Judy's Show: My Life As A Sitcom, and is a featured panelist on TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest. She lives in New York with her two children.

To Judaism and Back

by Judy Gold

A comedian discusses how her faith helped her through some of her darkest hours.

Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other awards) and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of fourteen awards, including the 2001 National Book Award. His first novel, A Stone Boat, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award, has recently been reissued. Solomon’s work is published in twenty-two languages. He is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Cornell University and Special Adviser on LGBT Affairs to Yale University’s Department of Psychiatry. For speaking engagements, please contact the Tuesday Agency.

A Time of Hope

by Andrew Solomon

A writer travels to Afghanistan in search of art.

Wayne Reece

Reverend Wayne G. Reece has been a United Methodist Pastor for more than five decades. He is the author of the book Giving Beyond Ourselves among others. Rev. Reece developed the Project HOMES that renovated low-income houses, spent two years as the President of a Housing Commission and was a delegate to the World Methodist Conference among numerous other accomplishments. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, and has four daughters, fourteen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren... with more on the way.

Easter in a Texas Roadhouse

by Wayne Reece

After running out of gas, a young preacher in 1960s Texas ends up in a pool hall

Al Sharpton

Reverend Al Sharpton is one of the nation’s most renowned civil rights leaders and the founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), a not-for-profit civil rights organization based in Harlem, New York. He's currently the host of PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton on MSNBC.

Conviction

by Al Sharpton

The Reverend has to decide if he really wants to be like Dr. Martin Luther King. 

Mack McClendon

Mack McClendon is a New Orleans native, proud grandfather, and former telephone technician. The Lower 9th Ward Village, the only center of its kind, now offers literacy, job training, and apprenticeship programs, and serves as a focal point for residents returning to the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood.

What Can You Do?

by Mack McClendon

A New Orleans native realizes he can never return to his pre-Katrina life.

Matteson Perry

Matteson Perry grew up in Colorado and currently lives in Los Angeles, where he's a writer and comedian. He discovered The Moth while living in New York City. He's proud to be one of the hosts of the LA StorySLAMs.

Take The Bull By The Horns

by Matteson Perry

A young American tests his mettle in Spain.

Courtney Bellanti

Courtney Bellanti is a wife and mother of three from Brighton, Michigan. Her hobby is couponing and she gives classes in how to get started. She credits her dad for helping her be the type of person who can get up and tell a story and for a lot of great material.

Meeting The Folks

by Courtney Bellanti

A high school girl takes her boyfriend hot tubbing with her dad.

Fathia Absie

Fathia Absie is a Somali-American filmmaker, essayist, poet and activist based in Eden Prairie, MN. Her first documentary film, Broken Dreams, is about the Somali American youth that left Minnesota to return to their war torn homeland of Somalia. Fathia is now working on a feature film called The Secret Recruit.

My Sister's Keeper

by Fathia Absie

A Somali immigrant struggles to keep her troubled sister in the country.