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It takes a special breed to head to a Great Lakes beach during the windiest months of the year. But storm photographers are up for the challenge.
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 09:18
Fifty years after Vietnam, historians debate the influence of Montana's uniquely positioned U.S. senator
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 06:09
This is a documentary that commemorates the Fourth of July holiday. Created, produced, and hosted by Shelley M. Johnson, it covers major events of ...
Bought by 90.5 WESA, Prairie Public, and WGTE Public Media
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: 52:31
- Purchases: 3
Reverend Patricia Gould Champ, also known as the Queen Mother or simply Reverend Pat, began her career as a teacher, but ultimately received the ca...
- Added: Jun 03, 2024
- Length: 27:20
A documentary about the decline in bird populations in the Great Lakes region and how the causes also are a warning for humans.
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 55:31
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 24:10
Taking care of ourselves goes hand in hand with taking care of the planet.
Bought by WOJB
- Added: May 19, 2024
- Length: 58:07
- Purchases: 1
Memorial Day began as a way to unite a country deeply divided by the Civil War. This documentary produced and narrated by Shelley M. Johnson talks ...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 18, 2024
- Length: 49:09
- Purchases: 1
Reverend Patricia Gould Champ, also known as the Queen Mother or simply Reverend Pat, began her career as a teacher, and later became the youngest ...
- Added: May 06, 2024
- Length: 27:25
Reverend Patricia Gould-Champ, a woman affectionately referred to as the Queen Mother, which, in her case, is not a petty, royal appellation. Rathe...
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 26:36
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 24:26
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 27:38
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 25:47
Audio documentaries from the front lines
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 15, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 26:38
The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 27:14
Our guest today, Smithsonian Associate Kevin Dennehy, is someone who can guide us through a journey to Normandy like no other. Smithsonian Associat...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Oct 09, 2023
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 1
How are Asian-Americans fighting back against accusations of divided loyalties and the sense of “perpetual foreignness”?
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 01, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.
Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 56:56
- Purchases: 2
"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 48:57
When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 51:34
If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 54:18
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 59:05
This week on On Story, we’re joined by co-creator, showrunner, and writer Lang Fisher for a conversation on writing the acclaimed Netflix comedy se...
- Added: Apr 05, 2023
- Length: 54:00