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LIVE LAW 10: Prison Break
From: LIVE LAW
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“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 13:10
Charme's Transition
From: Caitlin Pierce
Series: Borders
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Charme churns through the rough St. Louis Public Schools while she is going through her gender transition.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 1
LIVE LAW 8: Three Strikes
From: LIVE LAW
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“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 22:40
The Lower 9th Ward Lives On
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Robert Green, Lower 9th ward resident, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2015
  • Length: 13:31
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Gwen Moten
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Gwen Moten remembers her childhood best friend, Denise McNair, who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WTJU


  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: PJ Allen and Willie Watson
From: StoryCorps
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When the truck bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, there were 21 children in the building's day care. Six sur...

Bought by KOSU and KOSU


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
Fallen Heroes of 2014
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Yuri Kochiyama, Credit: Bob Hsiang
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...

Bought by WNJR and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Mytokia Fair and Thomas Fair
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Former Baltimore police officer Mytokia Fair remembers the day she shot and killed her abusive...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Kai Leigh Harriott and Aja David
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Aja (left), Kai (middle) and their mother Tonya David.
Aja David and her younger sister, Kai Leigh Harriott, remember the night Kai was hit...

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
A Father's Choice: Autism or Alcohol
From: Jesse Regis
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Berta and Joseph spent years as drug dealers and hustlers in the roughest parts of New York. They both served time. Joseph was an alcoholic. Their ...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 19, 2014
  • Length: 18:54
  • Purchases: 1
Emmett and Trayvon
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Caption: Mike Wiley performing Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.

Bought by KUER and WUNC


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
I Am From
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School, tells about the experiences that hade him what he is. A good deal of pathos is included.

Bought by KSRQ and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 2
FRUITVALE STATION -- Michael B. Jordan & Octavia Spencer interview.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Michael B. Jordan & Octavia Spencer, Oakland, CA 6/21/13 , Credit: Andrea Chase
Michael B. Jordan and Octavia Spencer talk truth, pain, and spirituality.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 11:03
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Adrian Hawkins and Horace Atwater Jr.
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Adrian Hawkins (L) and Horace Atwater Jr. (R)
Adrian Hawkins talks to his foster father, Horace Atwater Jr.

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Bernard Holyfield and Charles Barlow
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Bernard Holyfield (R) and Charles Barlow
Bernard Holyfield (R) tells his friend Charles Barlow (L) about a painful memory from his childhood in the 1960s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 1
Children of Refugees
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
Caption: Liz Peter takes her siblings swimming in Seattle., Credit: Chantal Anderson
Once a refugee family has been here for a while, the children often become ambassadors to the outside world. It's the kids who have to translate fo...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps NTI: Ayodeji Ogunniyi
From: StoryCorps
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Ayodeji Ogunniyi describes how the death of his father inspired him to become a teacher.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: A.P. Tureaud Jr. and Steven Walkley
From: StoryCorps
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A.P. Tureaud Jr. tells his friend Steven Walkley about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.

Bought by WEZU, KUOW, and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Morris
From: StoryCorps
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Mary Morris remembers her husband, Thomas, one of two Washington D.C. postal workers who died from exposure to anthrax in October, 2001.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Earl and Ashley Reynolds
From: StoryCorps
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Earl Reynolds Jr. tells his daughter, Ashley, about meeting James Brown at his father's barbershop in Roanoke, Virginia.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WEZU, Delta College Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps Griot: Ellaraino and Baki AnNur
From: StoryCorps
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72-year-old Ellaraino tells her friend Baki AnNur about meeting her great-grandmother for the first time.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: George and Katie Robinson
From: StoryCorps
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George Robinson tells his daughter, Katie, about meeting his biological father after searching for more than 40 years.

Bought by WEZU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 3
The poet Sonia Sanchez
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Sonia Sanchez broke literary ground during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.

Bought by KENW, KISA Digital Studios, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering "I Have a Dream"
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Julian Bond (right) at the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs, with other members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee., Credit: Julian Bond
We know what history books say about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech - but what about the people who were there?

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WTIP, KRCB 104.9, WHFR and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 28
A Young Scholar vs. the Recession
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thomas McCall, a 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be, was already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produc...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:39