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Randy and his older brother, Angel Villegas, talk about Angel’s undocumented status and how it affected their relationship growing up.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Tina Dietz and Patrick Conteh at StoryCorps in Bismarck, North Dakota., Credit: By Savannah Winchester for StoryCorps.
Tina Dietz speaks to her partner, Patrick Conteh, about seeking refuge at her great aunt Shirley’s farm in rural North Dakota.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 02:57
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Students in Austin talk to Mr. Absher, a man with a devout love of fishing. We learn why people come from all over the world to catch the fish of c...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 04:20
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4th grade students in Austin interview their favorite math teacher.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:33
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Hear professor Dr. Shawn Secatero of the Navajo Nation, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, explain his Indigenous learning mod...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 13:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Justin poses with the tattoo that you got for his twentieth birthday, representing the cross country bib that was taken away from him in 2010., Credit: (c) Janel Semonasky, 2017
Justin Bachman has spent his whole life being different. After being diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome, Bachman chose to teach others about tolera...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAER Syracuse, NY, and WNYO


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Johnny Holmes (left) and Christian Picciolini (right)
In the 1990s, Johnny Holmes was head of security at a high school in Blue Island, Illinois, located just outside of Chicago, where he met Christian...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:19
Caption: Max Hanagarne (left) and Josh Hanagarne (right)
StoryCorps gives people the chance to talk to each other about the events that have helped shape who they are. Josh Hanagarne did just that with hi...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:51
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At Baldwin Elementary School in Austin, Texas, students have invented their own game based on a book series. Hear all about their elaborate rules a...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
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Calvin Burns and his teenage daughter, Stepheni Bellamy, visit StoryCorps to have a difficult conversation about rac

Bought by WVBI-LP, Public Radio for All, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 3
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Judge Michael John Ryan talks with his son, Michael Benjamin Ryan, about growing up in an abusive household, and how he found the strength to gradu...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 3
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A story told in two parts: Kayla Wilson came to StoryCorps in 2006 to talk about her mom’s drug addition and incarceration. Ten years later, she re...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:57
Caption: Jasmine Pacheco (left) and Carmen Pacheco-Jones (right)
A mother talks to her daughter about what it was like to reconnect with her children after her years of drug and alcohol abuse tore their family ap...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Alice and Ibukun Owolabi
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
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How exactly is NCAA recruiting younger aged athletes affecting the athlete in the long term?

  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 04:23
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Nasser Fitwi is a refugee who left his home country of Eritrea to find a better life in America. He left his wife and children behind for about tw...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 03:37
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Charme churns through the rough St. Louis Public Schools while she is going through her gender transition.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Kids on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
We will chat with three young Bay Area residents, Hali, Juliana, and Ruby, about what they think Making It Work all means!

  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 22:12
Caption: Amanda Harrinauth on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your show host on this episode of Making It Work, we will chat with undergraduate student, Amanda Harrinauth, about her exper...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 19:36
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Seventeen years after Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank at gunpoint, he came to StoryCorps...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
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At some point or another we've all known a person that's really into shoes, but have you ever met a "sneakerhead"? Produced at Vocalo (90.7 FM Chic...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 05:18
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Kris Kalberer and her teenage daughter, Erika, talk about being homeless.

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Aja (left), Kai (middle) and their mother Tonya David.
Aja David and her younger sister, Kai Leigh Harriott, remember the night Kai was hit...

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Roger Alvarez (L) and his former teacher Antero Garcia (R).
Antero Garcia (R) talks to his former student Roger Alvarez (L) who dropped out...

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KMUD, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Rogelio Martinez talks to his former dance teacher, Lisa Moya King, about how she helped him through abuse at home.

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 2