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History is made by the daily decisions of regular people. One family's story of the Great Migration.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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In 1963, a 12-year-old Freeman Hrabowski III accepted Martin Luther King's challenge to march, and that week set the course of his life.

  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 52:49
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Anderson and Karen Lawson remember their father, engineer, Gerald Lawson and how his pioneering spirit influenced their childhood in 1970’s Silicon...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 1
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


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, three conversations about community storytelling. If listening is an act of love, then storytelling could be...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio and WRGY


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Hadiyah-Nicole Green-Argieard and Tenika Floyd at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta, Georgia on January 28, 2017., Credit: Jacqueline Van Meter for StoryCorps.
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green speaks with her cousin Tenika Floyd about being raised by her Auntie and Uncle, and how their separate battles with cancer...

Bought by WERA-LP


  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Albert and Aidan Sykes in Jackson, Mississippi, 2020, Credit: Albert Sykes.
Albert Sykes returns to StoryCorps with his son Aidan--now 14-- to talk about how Aidan is feeling as a young Black man in 2020.

Bought by WERA-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
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What you want for your brother, want for yourself.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Omar Ali with his family. Omar is standing fourth form the left holding his daughter., Credit: Courtesy of Awal Ibrahim
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

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 1
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If what I tell you can help just one of you all, then I feel good because know that somebody actually heard what I was saying and took it to heart.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 31, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mario Loiseau (L) and Mabou Loiseau (R)
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
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Just a few years ago, 18-year-old Noah McQueen was struggling in school, had been arrested multiple times, and spent time in juvenile detention. Bu...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Peggy & Lacey Schwartz, San Francisco, CA  8/5/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lacey and Peggy Schwartz talk capturing the right moment, the fluid nature of reality, and the revelation of openness.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 18:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Eleanor Warren talks about her song, "Coming Home."

Bought by WCSU-FM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
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Berta and Joseph spent years as drug dealers and hustlers in the roughest parts of New York. They both served time. Joseph was an alcoholic. Their ...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 19, 2014
  • Length: 18:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Cheri Lindsay talks with her father, Phillip, about vitiligo, a rare skin condition they share...

Bought by WEZU, WMUU-LP, and KMUD


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 3
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For StoryCorps' 10th anniversary, we're revisiting some favorite stories. At 27, Wil Smith's age wasn't the only thing that set him apart from oth...

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bayview's James Martin , Credit: R.J. Lozada
Deafening gunshots rang out just as James Martin arrived home. Troubled by the news of a 17-year-old young man dying in front of his house, he did ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
Caption: Adrian Hawkins (L) and Horace Atwater Jr. (R)
Adrian Hawkins talks to his foster father, Horace Atwater Jr.

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Mary Johnson speaks with Oshea Israel, who killed her son in 1993.

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: May 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 4
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This arts program attempts to generate positivity in Oakland, CA

Bought by KZSC and KVMR


  • Added: Jun 01, 2007
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 2