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Mary Johnson-Roy first came to StoryCorps in 2011, to speak with Oshea Israel, the man who murdered her son. 12 years later, they share the latest ...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Oct 13, 2023
- Length: 11:50
- Purchases: 2
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
Historian Alison Rose Jefferson discusses her book ‘Living The California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During The Jim Crow Era’. She demon...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 07, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Today we're talking to Rhonda Sewell, the first director of belonging & community engagement at the Toledo Museum of Art. Although Rhonda is fillin...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 06:08
- Purchases: 1
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. ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A piece by Lael Saphir. My piece is about what it feels like to be a P.O.C. dancer in a community that excludes you.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 06:47
- Purchases: 1
An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
Faith - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditional style...
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 02:40
Happiness - Yolanda Franklin-Moore is Fashion Designer and Owner of Xande Fadee, an innovative fashion and accessories line. Yolanda is a highly sk...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 01:36
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
10-year-old Leila Ramgren talks with her father, Chad Eisen-Ramgren, about Philando Castile, the cafeteria manager at her school who was killed by ...
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'"' - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination. HOUR 2: "Artificial Creativity" - Scientists are ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
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
How do cultural constructs, like race, influence our relationship to the natural world? Poet and professor Camille Dungy explores this question by ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 25:50
We talk with Samson Longtin, Business Equity Liaison of the Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency and renowned poetic storyteller, Oba William King...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 16:28
Radio Curious visits with Dr. Joseph Marshall, co-founder of Alive and Free, a community violence prevention effort for at-risk inner city youth to...
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 07:21
- Purchases: 2
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
Aug. 28 is the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his historic "I Have a...
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 20:35
- Purchases: 2
Paramedic Rowan Allen talks to Bryan Lindsay about the day he saved his life.
- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
In this conversation, Juanita Brown wanted to go beyond the hype that President Obama's election marked "the end of history" in American race relat...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 38:28
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 44:14
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
