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Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 1
Hope - Charisse Arrington is a R&B singer who was signed to MCA Records in the 1990s. Her biggest success was with the single "Down With This" whic...
- Added: Mar 14, 2022
- Length: 04:21
Alexander Landau spoke with his friend, Nina Askew, about the support they’ve given each other after both experienced violent arrests from Colorado...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 15, 2021
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 1
“The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator saying, ‘You have a collect call from Ian for Debb...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 33:47
- Purchases: 1
We celebrate Black History Month with DaMaris Hill, the youngest and first living American poet to be signed to Bloomsbury Publishing. In the final...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This story shows the process and the drastic change from an alcoholic and addict to a wife , a mother , a grandmother, 12 year recovering addict an...
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 07:29
Love - Alee Opuiyo is a 2005 Howard University School of Communications graduate. She majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Political Scie...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 01:19
73-year-old Winfred Rembert is one of the only people ever known to have survived a lynching. At StoryCorps, he sat down with his wife, Patsy, to r...
- Added: Nov 22, 2019
- Length: 03:09
In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 20:27
- Purchases: 1
The 1840s South. In the thick plantation air, two enslaved sisters spin a poetry of escape. Today’s the day: Field Girl is making her run for freed...
- Added: Jan 29, 2018
- Length: 20:56
Starring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Condola Rashad (“Billions”), CELL tells the riveting story of three African-American women working at ...
Bought by WCPN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WHRV
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 5
In 1964, Dr. William Lynn Weaver was one of 14 black teens who integrated West High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. At StoryCorps, he spoke about h...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 05:41
Judge Michael John Ryan talks with his son, Michael Benjamin Ryan, about growing up in an abusive household, and how he found the strength to gradu...
Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 3
Host Bob Kustra talks with Pamela Newkirk about her book about a young African man who was displayed in a cage in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.
- Added: Jul 01, 2016
- Length: 29:51
In the 1970s, Pastor David Ned learned an important lesson about himself after what could have been a tragic situation.
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 02:30
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
Former Baltimore police officer Mytokia Fair remembers the day she shot and killed her abusive...
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 3
IN THIS EDITION OF THE CUTTING EDGE, WE BRING YOU A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HISTORIAN ERIC FONER AND SYLVIAN DIOUF, AUTHOR OF “SLAVERY’S EXILES: THE STORY...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:56
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 19:53
Charles Randolph-Wright talks about directing Lynn Nottage's play Ruined at Arena Stage.
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 29:38
Author T.J. English looks at NYC in the late 60's and 70's and the tense relationship created between the police and NYC's growing communities of c...
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 52:09
In June 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, a mob of over 10,000 convened upon the police station, inflamed by the rumor that black circus workers had rape...
- Added: Jul 15, 2008
- Length: 18:26
