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PBS American Portrait Project By East Baton Rouge Parish Library
With a health pandemic and countrywide protests, this national storytelling project is more important than ever – it's a recorded history.
August 21, 2020
It’s your story. Have you joined in the conversation? Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) invites people across our state to take part in the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) storytelling project AMERICAN PORTRAIT. It’s a collection of stories contributed by people all over the country – a portrait designed to show and explain what it really means to be an American today.
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And that story may have drastically changed over the past few weeks or months. With a health pandemic and countrywide protests, this national storytelling project is more important than ever – it’s a recorded history. So even if you took part in the project earlier, we encourage you to go back and look at some of the new prompts. If you are just getting started, it’s easy! Go to https://www.lpb.org/americanportrait to see the simple instructions on how to upload your entry
This press release was produced by the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.