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Law student and former go-go dancer, Armando Torres' Song Story recalls a time when he was a god above all, transmitting his energy from a box in t...
- Added: Oct 11, 2015
- Length: 06:15
“When I was incarcerated, I had no intention of falling in love. I wasn’t looking for it...Then one day our hands touched.”
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 08:56
“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 13:10
12 year old Lesly Monroy was being bullied at school. She decided to make a radio story about it. In the process, she found out she wasn't alone ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 04:54
“I'll always have this wonderful memory of my father who loved to dance with his daughter, and still does to this day.”
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 04:57
A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 20:02
- Purchases: 1
An intimate conversation with Studs about the edges of life and death.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Amina Al-Sadi is a 25-year-old American Muslim currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. This year in the west, Ramadan lines up with the summ...
Bought by KZYX, KREV-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KZYX and more
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 8
For some bears, weird spring weather was a wake-up call. For humans, not so much.
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 08:47
She didn't start with her name or with me. We trace the pure bred mutt's story back to the beginning, or as best we can.
Bought by North State Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2015
- Length: 14:29
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 09:53
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 09:33
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 10:03
- Purchases: 1
Berkeley-based Wilderness Torah is one group that’s trying to bring new meaning to the old tradition. Intrigued, I tagged along this past spring fo...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 11:58
In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
- Added: Dec 16, 2014
- Length: 05:16
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 40:27
A narrative weaving together the voices and stories of women who, by choice or chance, do not have children and what they are doing with their love...
- Added: Oct 19, 2014
- Length: 15:41
Irasema Gonzalez talks about coming of age as a young Latina in 1990s Chicago, and how her definitions of love and womanhood shifted with the passi...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 1
This story was the winner on October 17th, 2013 at Fortier Park. The theme was "Thrown." Lindsey Bottinger tells of the sweaty morning in Spain tha...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 06:12
Vocalo contributor Alex Thibodeau talks about growing up biracial outside of Detroit… without the benefit of knowing his Jamaican father. He shares...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 10:55
- Purchases: 2
Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 23:59
How old is gender? Can a six-year-old child really be considered transgender? Marlo Mack explores this question, with a little help from her tran...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 06:17
- Purchases: 1
This week, on State of the Human, people are changing radically in order to recover
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 2
