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Essayist Ula Biss, author of Notes from No Man's Land, offers candid reflections on the role of race in her own life and in American history.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 11:20
- Purchases: 1
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
For close to 40 years, the first weekend of October has brought something unusual to the urban byways of West Oakland: cowboys, on horseback, ridin...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
Charles-Austin Ross tells about his family, growing up, and finding his voice when opposition might stand in the way of his future.
- Added: Sep 26, 2013
- Length: 03:32
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Sep 05, 2013
- Length: 04:49
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian David Blight talks with host Ed Ayers about the continuing impact of the Civil War in shaping the context within which the march took pla...
Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 12:22
- Purchases: 2
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
James Simmons lives on the south side of Chicago. For five weeks, he was granted the opportunity to attend a summer program at Phillips Exeter Acad...
- Added: Aug 03, 2013
- Length: 08:08
Paramedic Rowan Allen talks to Bryan Lindsay about the day he saved his life.
- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
Melvin talks about what it's like being from New Orleans.
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 01:20
My Choice My Voice teen talks about his transformation from a "troubled kid" to a high school graduate headed to college. Meanwhile, we hear his re...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 12:37
- Purchases: 1
Adrian Hawkins talks to his foster father, Horace Atwater Jr.
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
What does it feel like to wait in line for food?
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 07:51
- Purchases: 2
What does it mean to be an ally in a political movement? From white Americans in the civil rights era, to Israelis in Palestine, to Latino-American...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
In this second part of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Perfo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 59:59
This month's Tin Roof Project features Simeon Wright, author of Simeon Speaks, the first eyewitness account of the kidnapping and murder of his cou...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 42:00
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:01
"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 16:39
- Purchases: 4
Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KLCC
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 2
In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:00
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 1
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Songs and my rants about the heart and soul of New Orleans plus the usual (unusual?) music you never heard by musicians you've never heard of.
- Added: Jan 27, 2013
- Length: 02:40:52
With one of the highest crime rates in the country, Richmond, California, is a regular on the evening news.
Zoom out to just California and that c...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:19
