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Caption: Lillie Cotlon and Burnell Cotlon in front of Burnell’s store, ‘Burnell’s Lower Ninth Ward Market’ in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 19, 2015., Credit: By Ian Spencer Cook for StoryCorps.
Eight years after their original StoryCorps interview, Burnell Cotlon reflects with his mother, Lillie Cotlon, about opening up a store in New Orle...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:09
Caption: Les Harris and Angie Presly at their StoryCorps interview in Springfield, MO on April 22, 2022., Credit: By Sarah Padgett for StoryCorps.
Les Harris and his daughter Angie Presley talk about how the accident that left him paralyzed changed their lives.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 2
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Here at Possibly, we try to make climate change feel more manageable and less overwhelming. But there’s no avoiding that this problem is terrifying...

Bought by KMXT and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
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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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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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
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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
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Zooey, a grad student and dance instructor, loves to both lead and follow. There was never a question about whether or not she would continue to do...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Sarah Churchill tells her daughter Yomi Wrong -- who has a genetic disorder that causes her bones to break easily -- about the night Yomi was born.

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


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 4
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Small race-based assumptions, or microaggressions can add up. How do people of color deal with this? Anton Treuer talks about developing racial awa...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WGZS


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 2
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The powerful multi-media exhibit, What's Left: Lives Touched By Suicide, organized by Northern Community Radio's John Bauer, opened at the MacRosti...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:55
Caption: Jonathan Brown
This story is about a high school teacher in New Orleans who looks back on his shenanigans as a student, and how teaching helps him grow.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Bryan Lindsay (L) and Rowan Allen (R)
Paramedic Rowan Allen talks to Bryan Lindsay about the day he saved his life.

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
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With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sugarcane Harvester, Credit: Zwelethu Mthethwa, photographer
Since the 1994 demise of South Africa's apartheid system, photography in that country has taken on a new freedom, and a new meaning. It has evolve...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:05
Caption: Ruth Mullin, Credit: Philip Nusbaum
"Technology is great," says Ruth Mullin, student at Susan B. Anthony Middle School (Minneapolis). But too much texting can cause you to ignore your...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
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The Trials and Tribulations of planning your son's birthday party.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2006
  • Length: 02:15