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Caption: Candice Davis, Artist, Credit: Sheila Regan
How does past trauma from generations ago play out in contemporary life? Artist Candice Davis creates works from clay, blood, and cloth with her ex...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Feb 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 1
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In this piece we hear people from Kenya, Argentina, the UK, Sweden, Finland, and the US talk about their mothers and who they are because of them.

Bought by WMPG and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 26:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Celebrate Chinese New Year in 2021 with Music and Words.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WVTF


  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Starting in 2019, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advocates began an ambitious two year effort to flip the script on sovereignty, self-determ...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sunni, Credit: Shefik
Strength - Mathew Knowles found phenomenal success grooming and managing the mega group Destiny's Child. He is now handing out mics to Blush, a har...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
Caption: Grete Bergman and Sarah Whalen-Lunn at their StoryCorps interview in Anchorage, Alaska on August 14, 2018. , Credit: Camila Kerwin
Grete Bergman came to StoryCorps with her friend, Sarah Whalen, to talk about their experiences giving and receiving traditional Native markings.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:06
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From South Carolina to Oklahoma to Minnesota, this episodes got 17 country tunes from all over the country you're listeners have never heard before...

Bought by KSTK and KIYU-FM


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Martin Jenkins makes history as the first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, and only the third Black man ever to serve on the state's...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Pamela Sneed's poetic memoir "Funeral Diva" is described as a “coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s.”, Credit: Patricia Silva
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...

Bought by KALW and WORT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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An hour sharing the story and music of Arkansas Folk legend Jimmy Driftwood.

Bought by KHNS, KIYU-FM, and KSTK


  • Added: Jul 28, 2021
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Playing some of the great stuff I found on my recent buying trip to to Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas

Bought by KIYU-FM, KSTK, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
If given a do-over in life, what would you do with it? This SUPERHUMANS story takes us on a beautifully raw journey that displays the courage and ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 26:36
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I’ve made this piece based off of how it feels to be a wrestler.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 05:53
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In this story, Walker explores the memory of a short but powerful conversation with her partner, triggered by the scent of fresh evening air.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
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Commemorate Chinese New Year in 2021 through Music and Words.

Bought by WVTF


  • Added: Jan 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 32:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Martha Escutia and her cousin Marina Jimenez remember their grandfather, nicknamed Papu, who came to the U.S. as a Bracero worker in the 1940s.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Nearly 40 million Americans live in poverty, making less than $26,200 a year for a family of four. Their stories and their struggles, however, are ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Personal narrative describing a way to cope with uncertainty during the pandemic, and a reassessment of safety and risk following the largest earth...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2020
  • Length: 05:33
Caption: Taffy Nivert and John Denver playing “Country Roads” at the Cellar Door in December 1970, one of the first times the song was performed in public. Bill Danoff’s guitar is to the left. , Credit:  Courtesy Bill Danoff
The coronavirus pandemic has increased a desire to return home for some people; we’ll hear from several people who recently moved to Appalachia. So...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
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Two Artists in their conversations with Laura, wheelchair dancer Alice Sheppard and TourettesHero Jess Thom, expand our ideas about beauty, mobili...

Bought by KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: S. A. Cosby
S..A. Cosby is an Anthony award winning writer from Southeastern Virginia.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 15:10
Caption: Tony Lucca
Former Mouseketeer, *NSYNC opening act, and "The Voice" contestant, Tony Lucca shares songs from his home in Nashville.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Gaelynn Lea
Gaelynn Lea is a Duluth-based violinist, public speaker and advocate for those with disabilities. She won the NPR Tiny Desk Concert in 2016 and has...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 20:03
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For her fiftieth birthday this year, Danna Harman planned to embark on a spiritual pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago and hopefully hit on a d...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 15:50