Kamilah Kashanie

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  • Username: KamilahK
  • PRX Member
  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent

Recent Pieces from Kamilah Kashanie

Caption: Dr. Thomas in his lab., Credit: Public Domain

StoryCorps Griot: Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris (02:20)
From: StoryCorps

Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris remember their mentor, Dr. Vivien Thomas, a surgical researcher who developed groundbreaking medical techniques.
Caption: Latasha Harlins as an early teen., Credit: Christina Rogers.

StoryCorps Griot: Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff (02:20)
From: StoryCorps

Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the catalysts for the 1992 Los ...
Caption: Daniel Jacob and Rob Maiden at their StoryCorps interview in Dallas, TX in 2014., Credit: Liyna Anwar for StoryCorps.

StoryCorps Griot: Rob Maiden and Daniel Jacob (02:43)
From: StoryCorps

Rob Maiden tells his friend and fellow Mavs ManiAACs performer, Daniel Jacob, about what led him to join their hip--hop dance group of self--proclaimed “beefy” men.
Caption: Neil Kramer and Sophia Lansky on February 9th, 2022 in Queens, New York. , Credit: Neil Kramer

StoryCorps: Sophia Lansky and Neil Kramer (02:46)
From: StoryCorps

Neil Kramer and his ex-wife, Sophia Lansky, talk about their unique quarantine experience together.
Caption: Willie Edwards Jr. died in 1957. He was killed by Klansmen who told him to either jump off a bridge or be shot., Credit: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts

StoryCorps Griot: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts (03:17)
From: StoryCorps

Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.
Caption: Dr. Charles Drew, pictured in a lab at Howard University in 1942, was known as the father of blood banking for pioneering the way we store and transport blood today., Credit: Dr. Charlene Jarvis

StoryCorps Griot: Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis and Ernest Jarvis (02:55)
From: StoryCorps

In the 1940s, Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon and blood scientist, and today he is known as the “Father of Blood Banks.” His daughter, Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis, came to ...