One of the stories I worked on through my summer Knight-Carnegie News21 Fellowship aired October 13th.
The 8-minute Saturday Weekend Edition feature was called “American Muslim Family Chooses Polygamy,” a slightly shorter version of the piece I did this summer called “Matters of Love and Faith.”
I encourage folks to listen to the longer version - it gets more personal and has a lot more ambient sound.
There’s been some web discussion about the piece, which I’m happy about. But I didn’t always feel that way. Given the extreme sensitivity of the issue (Islam, polygamy and race, all in one!), I considered disabling online comments on the newsinitiative.org site to prevent a flame war. But so far it’s received positive feedback overall, especially from Muslims.
Special thanks to Sandy Tolan for editing, and for encouraging me to tell the story I felt most passionate about.
