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Illuminating Invisible Women with Historian Carolyn Zola

From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery

Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City

StoryCorps Griot: Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Latasha Harlins as an early teen., Credit: Christina Rogers.

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 c...

Bought by WYAP

StoryCorps: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman at their StoryCorps interview in Chicago Illinois on September 4, 2014., Credit: By Andre Perez for StoryCorps.

Halyna Hrushetsky tells her daughter Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman about when she learned her Ukrainian parents had lived through the Holodomor famine.

Bought by WYAP

StoryCorps: Phillip Lazowski and Ruth Lazowski

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Philip and Ruth Lazowski on their wedding day, in 1955. , Credit: Courtesy of the Lazowski family.

Rabbi Philip Lazowski tells his wife Ruth about the stranger who saved him from the Nazis as a young boy, and how this fateful encounter would mark...

Bought by WYAP

StoryCorps Griot: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

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

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.

Bought by WYAP

StoryCorps: Dorlie Fong

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

In the late 1930’s, dancer Dorothy Toy debuted on Broadway with her partner Paul Wing. It capped years of hard work on the Vaudeville circuit and l...

Bought by KALW and WYAP

StoryCorps: Evan Yabu and Shig Yabu

From: StoryCorps

Shig Yabu tells his grandson Evan about an unlikely friend he made as a Japanese American internee during World War II.

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix

StoryCorps: Patsy Rembert and Winfred Rembert

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Patsy and Winfred Rembert at their StoryCorps interview in Hamden, CT in April of 2017. , Credit: By Jacqueline Van Meter for StoryCorps.

73-year-old Winfred Rembert is one of the only people ever known to have survived a lynching. At StoryCorps, he sat down with his wife, Patsy, to r...

StoryCorps Griot: Miriam Pratt and Jean Soliz

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

In 1969, Civil Rights leader Edwin Pratt was assassinated in his own home with his wife and daughter, Miriam, present. Miriam Pratt and her godmoth...

StoryCorps Griot: Myles Spencer-Watson and Charisse Spencer

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Charisse Spencer tells her teenage son Myles what it was like integrating her elementary school in Norfolk, Virginia in the 1960s.

Bought by WEZU

StoryCorps: Gary Koivu and Kim Koivu

From: StoryCorps

Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman living near Detroit. On a June night in 1982, he and a group of friends went out to celebrate his wedding,...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU

StoryCorps: Ellie Dahmer and Bettie Dahmer

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Vernon Dahmer was a successful farmer who fought for voting rights in the mid-1960s. His family recalls the night he was killed by the KKK.

Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP

StoryCorps OutLoud: Joel Tucker and Gordon Blake

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Joel Tucker (left) and his friend, Gordon Blake (right)

In this special StoryCorps production, Joel Tucker and his friend Gordon Blake share Joel’s experiences following an anti-LGBTQ incident from 2000.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRIR

Of Numbers and Names

From: Israel Story

For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended.

StoryCorps: Barry Romo

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Bill Branson (L) and Barry Romo (R)

Veteran Barry Romo and his nephew Bobby Romo were born a month apart and grew up together. They both went to Vietnam, only one came home.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU

The Lower 9th Ward Lives On

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Robert Green, Lower 9th ward resident, Credit: Andrew Stelzer

We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

StoryCorps Griot: Gwen Moten

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Gwen Moten remembers her childhood best friend, Denise McNair, who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WTJU

THE GREEN PRINCE -- Nadav Schirman, Mossab Hassan Yousef, and Gonen Ben Yitzak Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Nadav Schirman, Gonen Ben Yitzak, and Mossab Hassan Yousef, San Francisco, CA 7/25/14, Credit: Andrea Chase

Nadav Schirman, Mossab Hassan Yousef, and Gonen Ben Yitzak talk hope, perspective, and first meetings.

StoryCorps: LJ Evans and Suzanne Bishop

From: StoryCorps

LJ Evans (R) and Suzanne Bishop (L) remember working at an animal rescue clinic following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WEZU

FRUITVALE STATION -- Michael B. Jordan & Octavia Spencer interview.

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Michael B. Jordan & Octavia Spencer, Oakland, CA 6/21/13 , Credit: Andrea Chase

Michael B. Jordan and Octavia Spencer talk truth, pain, and spirituality.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix

National Parks Centennial: The Dispossessed of the Shenandoah

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Madison County, Credit: Charles McGuigan

More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...