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A young boy's father is killed in Somalia, as he makes his way to a camp in Kenya. After a long journey, now in the US, he doesn't feel discriminat...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 08:51
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Iraq war Veteran Travis Williams, sole survivor of his 12-man squad, remembers the explosion that took his 11 teammates.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sally Edwards (L) and Lue Hutchinson (R)
Sally Edwards (L) and Lue Hutchinson (R) remember becoming friends after they both lost sons in the Gulf War.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Teenager Rudy Gutierrez struggles with the fact that his mom has Multiple Sclerosis.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Tom Townsley reads his poem, When I am Old and Sick - words, sounds and music.

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: :46
Caption: ...the anonymous collaboration called humanity..., Credit: Susan Cook
Great affirmation of human purpose is the victory for those who watch the runners and wheelchairs racers come in at the Boston Marathon. They are ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 06:13
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Recently, a man convicted of aiding the prostitution of a young woman who was exploited by over 150 men, was given a 3 week sentence. This sente...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:45
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Dawn Maestas, who removes tattoos for survivors of domestic violence, talks to a client about her work.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, WMUU-LP, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Students study math at a cramschool in Kota, Rajasthan, India, Credit: Bianca Vazquez Toness
Getting into the top engineering schools in India is statistically harder than breaking into Harvard. So hard that students study for two years in ...

Bought by Outer Voices, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 3
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John Cruitt speaks with his former third grade teacher, Cecile Doyle, about how she helped him through his mother's death.

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
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Judy and Randy Pilgrim remember their son and Iraq war veteran, Army Specialist Lance Pilgrim.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: We should treat the truth better than that., Credit: Susan Cook
Corrupting the Message: Remembering the Iraq War Ten years ago this week, the Iraq War began. Like every other atrocity in history, or let's limi...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
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Harriet Caplan talks to her husband, Louis, about how their relationship began.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Patricia Kirkpatrick lives in St. Paul and teaches at Hamline University. She's won awards and fellowships from the McKnight, Jerome, Bush, and Wil...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:11
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From early calypso and New Orleans Mardi Gras music to New Orleans neighborhoods to my demise - what Mardi Gras means to me.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:47:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 25:00
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The residents of Riverside Gardens, a place built for Louisville residents to escape urban pollution, now have to contend with chemical plants, a p...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
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Scientists know the chemical vinyl chloride causes liver cancer because 26 former Rubbertown workers have died from the disease.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 04:38
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A profile of a community in Louisville plagued by odors and health concerns.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 03:49
Caption: "A quintessential wartime embrace.", Credit: Kenny Malone
In the safety deposit box that Udavilla Rutherford had with the Bank of America in Bradenton, Fla. she kept a strange array of items: a set of cow-...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Army Specialist Matthew Bolar
Gordon Bolar tells StoryCorps founder Dave Isay about his son, Army Specialist Matthew Bolar, who was killed in Iraq in 2007.

Bought by WSGE, WEZU, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 4
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Army National Guard Specialist Justin Cliburn tells his wife, Deanne, about Ali, the young Iraqi he befriended during his service in Iraq.

Bought by KOSU and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
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Vietnam veteran Harvey Hilbert remembers one night from the war.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Trooper Henry Dixon
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 06:49