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Learning to let go and move forward even when we are afraid. The Dream Journal has a conversation with new mother Sahlah Dubel who goes deep with a...
- Added: Dec 11, 2023
- Length: 55:57
The grandmother of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, joins a special edition of I SEE U and shares her perspective on the commercialization of this cultural ev...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KECG
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 53:31
- Purchases: 2
When Tami Charles’ son was in kindergarten, he asked her: “If Dr. King was such a good guy who wanted all these wonderful things for everyone, Momm...
Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WRKF, RadioStPete Florida, Wyoming Public Radio, WUWM and more
- Added: Oct 17, 2023
- Length: 53:30
- Purchases: 14
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
Primary care doctor Tseganesh Selameab brings us inside her practice as a provider for immigrants and refugees, and describes one of the most commo...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 39:02
Generational Gene may seem a special case; a middle-aged school superintendent with a father and grandfather who’ve contracted Type 2 diabetes, Gen...
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 18:29
How does past trauma from generations ago play out in contemporary life? Artist Candice Davis creates works from clay, blood, and cloth with her ex...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Feb 13, 2022
- Length: 04:24
- Purchases: 1
Strength - Mathew Knowles found phenomenal success grooming and managing the mega group Destiny's Child. He is now handing out mics to Blush, a har...
- Added: Dec 18, 2021
- Length: 01:30
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
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
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
S..A. Cosby is an Anthony award winning writer from Southeastern Virginia.
- Added: Aug 31, 2020
- Length: 15:10
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
Our piece is about Tobias’ brother and Miracle’s uncle and how they live their lives in and outside of prison.
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Aug 08, 2019
- Length: 08:02
- Purchases: 1
Snap LIVE! At The Paramount featuring Glynn Washington, Don Reed and Joyce Lee.
- Added: Apr 11, 2019
- Length: 53:57
A city councilwoman shares how her path to public service began with an act of intimidation.
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 05:18
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Feb 01, 2018
- Length: 04:19
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious visits with Orell Massey, Mendocino County's first and only black sheriff, who reflects on race and the impact of Dr. Martin Luther K...
Bought by WHFR and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
In the 1990s, Johnny Holmes was head of security at a high school in Blue Island, Illinois, located just outside of Chicago, where he met Christian...
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 02:19
We all remember the influential teacher who made a difference in our lives. But for Drego Little, the teacher that changed his life was the one he ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
The first curator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection talks with his friend and fellow war veteran about the collection and his service.
Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, WMUU-LP, and WEZU
- Added: Nov 14, 2016
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 3
We're hitting the gym on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. Join us as we visit Soul City Boxing and Wrestling Gym in this two-part series. H...
- Added: Jul 25, 2016
- Length: 06:29
RadioActive Youth Media producer Krubel Amare breaks down the true essence of Hip Hop culture, and how it’s impacted himself and the people around ...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 06:57
- Purchases: 1
In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Seventeen years after Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank at gunpoint, he came to StoryCorps...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 2
