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Caption: Laamar at First Ave's Best New Bands show in 2024, Credit: James Napoli
In the wake of the police killing of Philando Castile, North Minneapolis native Geoffrey Lamar Wilson turned to music as an act of protest and reme...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 05:39

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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Mary Johnson-Roy first came to StoryCorps in 2011, to speak with Oshea Israel, the man who murdered her son. 12 years later, they share the latest ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 2
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Season 1.5, Episode 3 Retried Judge Calvin Johnson was a lot of firsts, including the first elected African American judge in New Orleans. Johnso...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 11:51
Caption:  Nia Cosby and Chalana McFarland in Marietta, GA on June 28, 2020., Credit: Michael Reese for StoryCorps.
After being incarcerated for 15 years, Chalana McFarland is reunited with her daughter following a federal memorandum that called for releasing non...

Bought by WYAP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WERA-LP


  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lebronze and Arguster Davis at their StoryCorps interview in Birmingham on October 3, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Lebronze and Arguster Davis grew up on their family’s farm in Wetumpka, Alabama. As two of 17 siblings, they had little time for anything outside o...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 03:01
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The US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jamison and Yuvette at the BART Station going to Disney on Ice, Credit: Photo provided by Jamison Robinson
Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson’s brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the poli...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: The Purdy family pose in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1984 when all four kids were in high school. From left, Kristen, Ron, Jessica, Hoãng Stephen, David and Pamela Purdy., Credit: Photo courtesy Pamela Chatterton Purdy
For more than forty years, Reverend David Purdy and his wife Pamela saw themselves as the heroes in their own story – white people who were civil r...

Bought by WJCT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 14:10
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Mike Wiley performing Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.

Bought by KUER and WUNC


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
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


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 11:03
  • Purchases: 2
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George Robinson tells his daughter, Katie, about meeting his biological father after searching for more than 40 years.

Bought by WEZU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 3
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Sonia Sanchez broke literary ground during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.

Bought by KENW, KISA Digital Studios, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Thomas McCall, a 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be, was already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produc...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:39