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StoryCorps American Pathways and Griot: Tasreen Khamisa and Tony Hicks
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In 1995, 14-year-old Tony Hicks shot and killed 20-year old Tariq Khamisa in a gang-related robbery. 20 years later, Tariq's older sister, Tasreen,...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Nia Cosby and Chalana McFarland
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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
Vivian Leonard, Marissa Ochs, and Vivian Leonard
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Vivian Garcia Leonard (left), Baby Liana, Marissa Ochs, and Vivian J Leonard. , Credit: Marissa Ochs.
Three generations of hospital pharmacists discuss staying safe during the COVID-19 pandemic and what carrying on their family legacy means to them.

Bought by WERA-LP and KVNF


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Denise Baken, Richard Yingling, and Christian Yingling
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Denise Baken (center) with her children Christian Yingling (left) and Richard Yingling (right) at their StoryCorps interview in Baltimore, MD on August 23, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Denise Baken tells her children about her family's legacy of military service—and the battles faced along the way.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, PRX Remix, and WHRV


  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Pedro Lopez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Pedro Lopez (left) stands beside his mother, Consuelo Lopez (right) in May of 2011 at St. Bridget Catholic Church on the 10th anniversary of the Postville raid. Consuelo is carrying the Book of Names — a record of those arrested and detained. , Credit: Photo by Jim Slosiarek of The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Pedro Lopez remembers the day his mother was detained and deported in the largest single-site, single-day immigration raid in U.S. history.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WHRV, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 4
Don't Look Back
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories for Creative Forces
Caption: Cherry Woodburn (left) and Gary Emmert (right) editing audio., Credit: Texas Folklife
Gary Emmert was interviewed by Cherry Woodburn about his military experience. Gary enlisted when he was 18-years-old as a combat engineer, and reti...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 06:37
Life of the Law #119 - Live Law Detroit: Transition and Transformation
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Look around. Change is happening. People you know and people you pass on the street are in transition. They are transforming their lives. Unless yo...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:10:04
Yes, I'm from China. And yes those people are my parents
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Maya and her parents., Credit: Courtesy of Maya Konz
The first thing you say to someone you just met is most likely a polite greeting: "Hello! What's your name?" But not everyone is that thoughtful.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
Depression in 7th grade: 'I want to die but if I could get help that would be awesome'
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Sam struggled with depression in middle school., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/NATALIE NEWCOMB
“I started being like, I can’t talk about these things. You’re basically taught to bottle up your feelings in middle school.” RadioActive Youth M...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 2
I Always Wondered What A Psychiatric Hospital Was Like, And There I Was
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Fallon, 17, suffered a psychotic episode in sophomore year of high school., Credit: COLLEEN MCDEVITT / KUOW
Lots of teens struggle with depression or anxiety, but what’s less talked about is psychotic disorders in teens and what the struggle is like. Radi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
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: Hartmut Lau and Barbara Lau
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Hartmut Lau and Barbara Lau
A decorated veteran who served 24 years in the U.S. Army talks with his wife for the first time about his experiences during the Vietnam War.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:40
StoryCorps: Jamal Faison and Born Blackwell
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Jamal Faison (right) with his uncle, Born Blackwell (left)
Jamal Faison talks with his uncle, Born Blackwell, about his release from Rikers Island and the support he received through the challenges of re-en...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Public Radio for All, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Sean Fitzpatrick and John Gately
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: John Gately (L) and Sean Fitzpatrick (R)
Sean Fitzpatrick and Officer John Gately remember the day back in 2003 when Sean came to school with a gun.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:27
Labels and Discrimination
From: Littleglobe
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In this edition of Audio Revolution students from YMP’s production team explore the theme of labels and discrimination from a variety of angles inc...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Edith Green and her granddaughter, Chaya
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Edith Green tells her granddaughter, Chaya, about being a survivor of gun violence.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
I've Got the Blues and I've Got Soul! The Incredible Jimmy Smith
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: The Incredible Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith was instrumental in shifting the Hammond organ into the spotlight in the jazz genre and his many Blue Note albums of the 50s and 60s, i...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, KSRQ, and KREV-LP


  • Added: May 27, 2012
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 5
This can go on forever
From: Big Shed Audio
Caption: This polaroid of Joel was given to Carol by her social worker when the adoption process was completed., Credit: Photo courtesy Carol Brobeck.
When Carol was 20, she gave her baby boy away for adoption. Twenty years later, the son, Joel, came looking. The two tell their story of reunion.

Bought by American Voices, KUT, SALTcast Podcast, KCRW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2009
  • Length: 10:25
  • Purchases: 8
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
Killing is the New Fighting
From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"
Caption: Youth Radio reporter Ayesha Walker., Credit: Youth Radio
In an age when handguns are bought and sold for less than twenty-dollars on urban street corners and the price of a human life sometimes seems even...

Bought by PRX Remix and WMNF


  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 2
Late Night Action
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV news checks in with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, we catch up with a television film crew working ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:45
Cops and Firefighters
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, a police officer and a firefighter talk about the la...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WBFO, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 3
Construction Night Shift
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, construction workers count the time-and-a-half pay a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KISU, Delta College Public Radio, Here and Now, WBFO and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 7