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  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:00
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Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 12:15
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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 26:07
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Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Thien Tran, Credit: Orlando Gili
'A Seat in Soho: Thien Tran' is a firsthand profile of long-time Soho, London resident Thien Tran. In this poignant piece, Thien discusses the chal...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 10:00

  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gerald Alston, Credit: Shefik
Faith - Gerald Alston is an American R&B singer, and the lead singer with The Manhattans. Between 1988 and 1995, he left the group to record five a...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:50
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After two kids and more than ten years of marriage, Jenni and Sarah were lying in bed one night when Sarah shared she was a woman born in a man’s b...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:47
Caption: Neal Bennington, Credit: Shefik
Destiny - Neal Bennington founded Broadway Sings for Pride, in response to tragic suicides within the LGBTQ+ community. The live concert series has...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 03:18
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
What would it look like for you to live your life with grace? This SUPERHUMANS story shows us how to experience loss with Grace. Kristi opens up a...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 36:40
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
If given a do-over in life, what would you do with it? This SUPERHUMANS story takes us on a beautifully raw journey that displays the courage and ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 26:36
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Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something stra...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:23
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The summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s house had been burglarized. So, 12-year-old Jessica g...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:54
Caption: Toni Burnett Rands at the Dark Mofo Winter Feast, Credit: Toni Burnett Rands
The process of cooking a dish connects Toni Burnett Rands to her ancestors. She recalls cooking with her grandmas and how power can be found throug...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we'll talk to a few spouses about their experience of a deployment.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 03, 2020
  • Length: 09:10
  • Purchases: 1
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An experiment in living together, forever.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 23:04
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John “Sonny” Franzese was once described as “largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia over the past century.” He’d been active in the...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 23:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Three women, two countries, one shared experience: Motherhood. From giving birth to receiving support – our producer Melissa Gerr looks at the role...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 24:46
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:01
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When Tyler Wetherall was a kid, her mother and father packed up the family car and drove through the night. They were on the run from the FBI. And ...

Bought by ABC and KSFR


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 26:41
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Chicago's lost children - The reality for many children in Chicago’s notorious West Side is a short life in the fast ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 30:00