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It’s Banjo Time! Join host Dave Smith and banjo royalty Mark Jones as they explore music of the banjo. From its ancient African roots, we’ll follo...
- Added: Nov 27, 2019
- Length: 58:59
Have you ever felt like a stranger in your own home? Well, in the affluent black community of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, Abigail McGrath felt...
- Added: Nov 22, 2019
- Length: 04:48
In November 2019, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock brings his mythological “Moundverse” to Miami. Locust Projects gives over the entire s...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 18:03
Judge Olly Neal tells his daughter how discovering African American author Frank Yerby's books in his school library turned him around academically.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
Hospitalist Meghan O'Brien recounts the frustration of caring for a homeless patient who would rather be on the streets.
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 32:47
Ben Lerman, an emergency medicine physician, describes how his ability to empathize with his patients deteriorated throughout his medical training,...
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 29:31
Recorded in front of a live audience, WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest James McBride, a N...
Bought by WCVE
- Added: Feb 28, 2019
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 1
The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Leigh Hamilton is a dramatic soprano who has been based in Germany for more than 17 years. This episode follows Leigh’s story, which takes her from...
- Added: Dec 19, 2018
- Length: 23:25
A euology for the great St. Ann pothole, Deborah.
[A Satire Piece on the State of Roads in New Orleans, LA]
- Added: Sep 10, 2018
- Length: 05:06
Thousands of Senegalese street traders in New York and other big cities around the world are organised around Sufi
- Added: Aug 01, 2018
- Length: 27:56
Ed Cage and Nicole Paris are a father-daughter beatboxing duo. At StoryCorps, they talk about how it all began.
Bought by KWMU St. Louis
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...
Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Dianne Reeves can effortlessly sing in whatever style she wants with her far-reaching range, whether it’s rhythm-and-blues, gospel, Latin or pop. B...
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 13
A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 24:49
The story of a shy teenager who wanted to meet the man of her dreams. Or at the very least, a straight guy. But some things are easier dreamed than...
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 19:49
During the 1940s, custodians who worked for the New York Public Library often lived inside the buildings they tended. In exchange for cleaning and ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 02:11
About ten years ago, the Herberger School of Business on the campus of St. Cloud State University moved to its current location in Centennial Hall,...
- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 31:09
He's a familiar face around Boston. Now hear what this mystery man has to say about music, race, street violence and bringing joy to the city he lo...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 06:10
- Purchases: 1
Douglas Kearney pays tribute to the late music icon Prince.
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Composer Pamela Z lets us know what a phonolog was, how great the Museum of Jurassic Technology is (about which she co-wrote an opera), and how to ...
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 29:30
Nine-year-old Isaiah Fredericks and his younger brother, Josiah, used their StoryCorps interview to ask their dad, Kevin, some hard-hitting questions.
Bought by Public Radio for All, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KZYX, WVBI-LP, WGUC/ WVXU and more
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 6
Robin Washington is African American and Jewish and has family members all over the world. Some are Jewish, some are other religions but many celeb...
Bought by KZYX, KWMR, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 01:57
- Purchases: 3
For a girl that wasn't supposed to be here, Destiny Roberts has a mission. It's to spread love and acceptance through her music. KFAI's Erianna Jil...
- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 04:51
Camaran Henson grew up hearing stories about his grandfather, Leonard Simmons, who was a police officer in Newark, New Jersey. He came to StoryCorp...
Bought by Public Radio for All, KALW, WEZU, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 4
