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Connecting with our ancestors through dreaming, an interview with Dr. Stephanie R. Burns. We can choose to communicate only with benevolent ancesto...
- Added: Apr 09, 2024
- Length: 53:32
On this week's episode, we speak with Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar about his latest book, “America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta ...
Bought by WUWM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN
- Added: Apr 08, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Urban shamanism and setting sacred space. Dreams, like myths, can be regarded as stories that are not true but that say something true. The essence...
- Added: Mar 15, 2024
- Length: 54:13
Food is an expression of who we are. Table host and folklorist next door, Yvette Blair-Lavallais, catches up with two generations of two North Texa...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 13:08
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WJCU
- Added: Jun 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Lieutenant Colonel Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad talks to his wife, Saleemah Muhammad, about becoming the first Muslim chaplain in the U.S. Armed Forces, ...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 08, 2021
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
Lieutenant Commander La’Shanda Holmes talks to her mentor, Commander Jeanine Menze, about being the first two Black female pilots in the United Sta...
- Added: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 02:25
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
New Orleans musician Big Freedia is famous for her music and twerking; her life story and anti-gun activism are less well known.
- Added: May 26, 2021
- Length: 29:29
Dreams - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard ...
- Added: Jul 22, 2020
- Length: 01:26
Change - Dr. Hassan Tetteh is a board-certified surgeon specializing in thoracic surgery, critical care, heart and lung transplantation, research a...
- Added: Jul 08, 2020
- Length: 01:27
Identity - The hardest working woman in show business, drag queen and recording artist Peppermint has conquered the New York scene with her high-en...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 04:29
Albert Sykes returns to StoryCorps with his son Aidan--now 14-- to talk about how Aidan is feeling as a young Black man in 2020.
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 2
Melba Beals, one of the nine African-American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, tells her story of faith under fire.
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Wil talks with Jonathan Mason, International President, Phi Beta Sigma.
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 16:51
Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a police officer. Just before he retired as chief, 5 ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 08, 2018
- Length: 29:52
- Purchases: 1
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're entering the world of comic books with Imani Lateef. Imani owns Peep Game Comix, a digital comics platf...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 1
Conversations with celebrated American poets Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez.
Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNSB, Morehead State Public Radio, WRIR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 7
Gregory Pardlo, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, debunks the theory that African American fathers are disinterested parents. Pardl...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 29:08
- Purchases: 1
Cheri Lindsay talks with her father, Phillip, about vitiligo, a rare skin condition they share...
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 3
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer
Series: A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer
Emmy Award Winning Producer & Director, A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer, Ms. Cissy Houston.
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 20:00
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
For StoryCorps' 10th anniversary, we're revisiting some favorite stories.
At 27, Wil Smith's age wasn't the only thing that set him apart from oth...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 2
Adrian Hawkins talks to his foster father, Horace Atwater Jr.
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
A high school student and recent graduate detail their struggles staying in school and what pushed them to persevere.
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 42:54
