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The Portland Cello Project returns to Musician's Spotlight, and this time they are joined by frequent collaborator singer Saeeda Wright. Doug Jenki...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lillie Cotlon and Burnell Cotlon in front of Burnell’s store, ‘Burnell’s Lower Ninth Ward Market’ in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 19, 2015., Credit: By Ian Spencer Cook for StoryCorps.
Eight years after their original StoryCorps interview, Burnell Cotlon reflects with his mother, Lillie Cotlon, about opening up a store in New Orle...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:09
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WDET's Jerome Vaughn talks with financial advisor and author Alvin Hall.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Shannon Gibney talks about her new picture book "Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight"

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 08:04
Caption: Margaret Powell and Folashade Alao at their StoryCorps in Decatur, Georgia on January 31, 2023, Credit: Kevin Alarcon
Folashade Alao remembers when she presented a Bill of Rights to her mother, Margaret Powell, and how it shaped their relationship.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Penny, Credit: Andrea Canter
Guitarist John Penny Is in touch with many jazz styles, and he uses many as sources for his new compositions. Also, when John performs, he offers i...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
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Rev. Harry Blake came to StoryCorps to speak with his daughter Monica Mickle about how his experiences growing up the son of a sharecropper in Loui...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:44
Caption:  Mary Othella Burnette and Debora Hamilton Palmer at their StoryCorps interview in Saint Clair Shores, MI, and Sparks, NV, on Feb. 6, 2022. , Credit: By StoryCorps
Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
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“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 26:16
Caption: Pamela Sneed's poetic memoir "Funeral Diva" is described as a “coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s.”, Credit: Patricia Silva
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...

Bought by KALW and WORT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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For National Pride Month, we'll hear from 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, who describes the joy he finds in writing poetry and how his wo...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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As one-half of Austin's 'Band of the Year,' (RAS) Riders Against the Storm, Jonathan 'Chaka' Mahone is a born musician. Knowing that it's truly 'bi...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 07:04
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Poet and culture critic Hanif Abdurraquib discusses his new book, "A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues Black History Month with Nikky Finney whose fifth book is called LOVE CHILD'S HOTBED OF OCCASIONAL POETRY: POEMS A...

Bought by KWMR and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Geraldine Robinson, center, and one of her sons, right, wait for her to be honored for her advocacy by the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in September 2019
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Marlos E'van standing in front of his North Nashville mural, "Fighters." , Credit: Photo by Melissa Saenz Gordon
A story about North Nashville contemporary artist Marlos E'van, who uses the social-practice art form to build community.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
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The centerpiece in today’s program is our talk about the essay “The Suffering of Strangers” which details a visit Sanders took to Charleston, South...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hadiyah-Nicole Green-Argieard and Tenika Floyd at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta, Georgia on January 28, 2017., Credit: Jacqueline Van Meter for StoryCorps.
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green speaks with her cousin Tenika Floyd about being raised by her Auntie and Uncle, and how their separate battles with cancer...

Bought by WERA-LP


  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: M.C. El Bee, Credit: Shefik
Identity - Author Larry Boatright, also known as M.C. El Bee in the hip-hop community, talks about the birth and propagation of hip-hop in the 1970...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:36
Caption: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Dr. Hassan Tetteh is a board-certified surgeon specializing in thoracic surgery, critical care, heart and lung transplantation, rese...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:05
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Topic 1: Replacing detention with meditation. Topic 2: A complicated personal journey across race

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 48:34
  • Purchases: 1
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We asked members of Tucson's black community to share insight on topics related to their blackness. A series of short segments designed for broadca...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2020
  • Length: 14:29
Caption: Dave McClinton interviewed by Akins High School Austin Corps class, Credit: Texas Folklife
Artist profile of Dave McClinton, an Austin-based artist and graphic designer. This story is part of an audio series "See It Through My Eyes" creat...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 05:24