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Illuminating Invisible Women with Historian Carolyn Zola
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Angeline Presley and Les Harris
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Les Harris and Angie Presly at their StoryCorps interview in Springfield, MO on April 22, 2022., Credit: By Sarah Padgett for StoryCorps.
Les Harris and his daughter Angie Presley talk about how the accident that left him paralyzed changed their lives.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Historias: Casimiro "Cas" Torres
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Casimiro “Cas” Torres reflects on how his childhood led him to incarceration at New York City’s Hart Island, where he buried the poor and unclaimed...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
Anxiety & Relief: Returning To Work After COVID
From: Christopher Beale
Caption: PRX default Piece image
After COVID-19 - a Palmdale couple grapple with completely different receptions upon returning to work.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 06:44
StoryCorps: Emma Pelosi and Debra Fisher
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Debra Fisher, an occupational therapist in the New York City Public School System, speaks with her friend Emma Pelosi, a special education teacher,...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:24
StoryCorps Griot: Shirley Darkeh and Ayim Darkeh
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dr. Ayim Darkeh speaks with his mother, Shirley, about his experiences being one of the few Black students at his predominantly white elementary sc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
From the frontlines of labor to beocming a Hollywood insider
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: Helen Hernandez: Connecting the dots from Labor Unions to Hollywood to Travel Journalism
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In this episode we profile Helen Hernandez, CEO of the North American Travel Journalist Association. We start from her humble beginnings and labor...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2020
  • Length: 23:58
Juan Botta Makes One-Minute Movies in Puerto Rico
From: Cathy Byrd
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In 2018, Puerto Rico based actor, composer and filmmaker Juan Botta left job security behind to center on his creative life. That’s when he launche...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 12:52
SEEING RED: A TIME TRAVELING MUSICAL -- Rotimi Agbabiaka
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Rotimi Agbabiaka, San Francisco, CA 8/2/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Rotimi Agbabiaka talks discovering hidden history, questioning assumptions, and having his mind blown open.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 25:39
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Percy White III and Terry Wright
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Perry White III and Terry Wright
Percy White III tells his friend Terry Wright about his family’s time as sharecroppers on a Virginia farm.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Neoma Farr and Greg Yance
From: StoryCorps
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Greg Yance and Neoma Farr worked alongside each other during the Great Flood of 1993, to gird the town of Niota, Illinois from the rising waters of...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Jul 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Gene Kendzior and Jennifer Kendzior
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Gene Kendzior tells his daughter, Jennifer, about his father, who died working in a coal mine in 1967.

Bought by WEZU, WVBI-LP, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Michael Yandell and Amy Yandell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Michael Yandell tells his wife, Amy, about being exposed to sarin gas while serving in the U.S. Army as a bomb disposal technician in Iraq.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: William Chambers and Ceceley Chambers
From: StoryCorps
Caption: William Chambers and Ceceley Chambers
William’s mother is a chaplain providing spiritual support to seniors and hospice patients. At StoryCorps they discuss how her work affects them both.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 03:23
StoryCorps: Vito de la Cruz and Maria Sefchick-Del Paso
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Civil rights lawyer Vito de la Cruz grew up in a family of migrant farmworkers. He describes his childhood and the loving aunt who raised him.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 5
A Dream Job
From: Daniel Wanschura
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What exactly is a dream job? Is it one that pays a lot of money? One where you don’t have to do much work? Is it one that makes you famous? …Or, is...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:58
Pilot
From: Consensus Coop
Series: Consensus
Caption: Congressman Chaka Fattah
Philly Congressman Chaka Fattah, lead sponsor of the Coop Jobs Act, KALW takes us inside the bike coop ColectíVelo in Oakland, and the Coop Job of ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
WIN Labor Report: December 13, 2013
From: Workers Independent News
Caption: The Voice for Working People
Updates on locked-out nurses, NYU grad students, and restaurant guides!

  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
StoryCorps: Rowan Allen and Bryan Lindsay
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Bryan Lindsay (L) and Rowan Allen (R)
Paramedic Rowan Allen talks to Bryan Lindsay about the day he saved his life.

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Boyd Applegate and Rhonda Dixon
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Big-rig driver Boyd Applegate tells his sister, Rhonda Dixon, about volunteering at the polls nearly every Election Day for 20 years.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Ken Rensink and Laurel Hill-Ward
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Special education teacher Ken Rensink tells his friend Laurel Hill-Ward how surviving a near-fatal car crash influenced his teaching.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps NTI: Al Siedlecki and Lee Buono
From: StoryCorps
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Neurosurgeon Lee Buono and his eighth grade science teacher, Al Siedlecki, remember reconnecting after more than 15 years.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: John Klein and Bernice Flournoy
From: StoryCorps
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John Klein remembers meeting the love of his life, Mary Ann Allen, with her daughter Bernice Flournoy.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 3