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I interview my mom about her personal history with this traditional Chinese dish—dumplings.

  • Added: May 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:28
Caption: Melvin Pender (right) with his friend, Keith Sims, at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta last month.
During the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, many black athletes were called to protest racial inequality. Not all were able to do so. That was the case f...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Yuri Kochiyama, Credit: Bob Hsiang
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...

Bought by WNJR and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bonnie and Freddie Lee Jackson
In the midst of war, love.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 05:15
Caption: Bust of Harvey Milk
This segment offers a rare look at the sculpture in San Francisco's City Hall of civil rights leader and local hero, Harvey Milk; its sculptor; an...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
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New Orleanian Robin Baudier believes it was a blessing to live with her family in a FEMA trailer.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Sep 04, 2007
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
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One-hundred thousand Chinese immigrated to America during the second half of the nineteenth century. They first came as miners during the Californi...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2007
  • Length: 03:12