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Guy Bryant talks to his foster son, Romario Vassell, about what it means to be a foster parent to more than 50 kids.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2019
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
Judge Olly Neal tells his daughter how discovering African American author Frank Yerby's books in his school library turned him around academically.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
David Wilson and his husband Rob Compton, one of the first legally married same-sex couples in the US, talk about how they met and reflect on the s...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 1
Ellen Hughes speaks with Keith Miller, the hospital safety officer who helped her son when he had a violent reaction to a medication.
- Added: Apr 22, 2019
- Length: 02:34
Old friends Jeanne Satterfield and Barbara Parham talk about how their unexpected reunion in a shelter led them closer to home.
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 01:47
- Added: Jan 04, 2019
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 1
De’Marchoe Carpenter and his wife Brandy Carpenter talk about the impact of his wrongful conviction on their relationship.
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Jul 23, 2018
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 1
Ed Cage and Nicole Paris are a father-daughter beatboxing duo. At StoryCorps, they talk about how it all began.
Bought by KWMU St. Louis
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
Melba Beals, one of the nine African-American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, tells her story of faith under fire.
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Dr. William Lynn Weaver remembers one Christmas when he was 18 years old in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WVBI-LP, and WEZU
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
During the 1940s, custodians who worked for the New York Public Library often lived inside the buildings they tended. In exchange for cleaning and ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 02:11
Omar Ali is a hero in the eyes of his family. He embarked on a long journey that could have landed him nearly anywhere, fighting to find a safe spa...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 1
"My dad's life story is kind of like Cinderella’s. He grew up without a mom, worked for an evil relative and found his princess in the least expect...
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 05:40
- Purchases: 1
Who are helpers? Often it's people who know how much it means to be helped.
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 1
Camaran Henson grew up hearing stories about his grandfather, Leonard Simmons, who was a police officer in Newark, New Jersey. He came to StoryCorp...
Bought by Public Radio for All, KALW, WEZU, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 4
John Washington, 95, who is blind and deaf, recently recorded a StoryCorps interview with his eldest child, Melva, using a TeleBraille machine.
- Added: Aug 22, 2016
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 3
Alice Mitchell and her 10-year-old brother, Ibukun, came to StoryCorps to talk for the first time about their mother who died just weeks after his ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
Seth Smiley and Octavius Humphries had their first date on Christmas Eve. They discuss that and other memorable holiday events they have shared.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
François Clemmons played Officer Clemmons on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." He came to StoryCorps to discuss the role and his life.
Bought by WITF, WMUU-LP, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2016
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 5
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
China Smith and her students share their perspectives on the dance world, and describe how they created their own world in Ballet Afrique.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 04:42
The image of the Mississippi Delta the public usually gets is one of poverty-- or of cotton fields. But, on a search for women like her grandmother...
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 25:16
- Purchases: 2
Black-eyed peas and collards. Fried chicken and peach cobbler. Customers at Delicious Southern Cuisine in Los Angeles come for these soul food sta...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 27:08
- Purchases: 2
What does *not* eating meat say about you? In one young biracial man’s family, his dietary change was construed as white, elite, even feminine. In ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 24:40
- Purchases: 3
Burnell Cotlon owns and operates the only grocery store in the Lower Ninth Ward. When it opened in 2014, it was the first grocery store to serve th...
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 02:11
- Purchases: 2
Mario Loiseau talks with his 9-year-old daughter, Mabou, about why he works so hard to provide for her education.
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 01:48
