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StoryCorps Griot: Luz Kenyon and Anna Paloma Williams
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Anna Paloma Williams and Luz Kenyon at their StoryCorps interview in Columbus, GA on October 30, 2021, Credit: By Sarah Padgett for StoryCorps
Luz Kenyon tells her daughter, Anna Paloma Williams, about the unexpected start of their family and how she navigated raising mixed kids in America.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 03:11
StoryCorps Griot: Rowan Allen and Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay speaks with Rowan Allen, the EMT who saved her son’s life and inspired her to become a nurse.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:59
StoryCorps Griot: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Willie Edwards Jr. died in 1957. He was killed by Klansmen who told him to either jump off a bridge or be shot., Credit: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
My grandmother's recipes
From: Sarah Mashman
Caption: Toni Burnett Rands at the Dark Mofo Winter Feast, Credit: Toni Burnett Rands
The process of cooking a dish connects Toni Burnett Rands to her ancestors. She recalls cooking with her grandmas and how power can be found throug...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
Borders Between Us
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
Caption: Aminata Tejan-Thomas, Saidu Tejan-Thomas and Saidu Tejan-Thomas, Jr., Credit: courtesy of Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother. It's a tragic love stor...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: 38:13
  • Purchases: 2
The Quest
From: Marc Maximov
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After seeing ads for home DNA tests on TV, John decided to give it a try. Just spit into a cup—what did he have to lose… or gain?

  • Added: Jul 22, 2019
  • Length: 13:23
StoryCorps: SADA JACKSON AND ANGELA MOREHEAD-MUGITA
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Sada Jackson learns about her late-mother through her mom’s best friend, Angela Morehead-Mugita.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis


  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Tanai Benard and Dezmond Floyd
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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10-year-old Dezmond Floyd talks with his mother, Tanai Benard, about the active shooter drills in his 5th grade classroom.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Five Mualimm-ak and Omar Mualimmak
From: StoryCorps
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StoryCorps gives people the chance to sit down together and have a conversation they’ve never had before. Five Mualimm-ak did just that with his so...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #72: Outside the Walls
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangba...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 26:22
  • Purchases: 1
An African-American poet's tribute...
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: NOVEMBER, 2015
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...To her late Eritrean-American husband, Ficre -- a painter, chef, and loving father -- in Elizabeth Alexander's new memoir, The Light Of The Worl...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
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
Sickle and Me
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: McBurney YMCA 2012
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Nearly 100,000 Americans suffer from a blood disorder called Sickle Cell Anemia, a painful disease that shortens life-expectancy. Sickle cells aren...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 2
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: 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
Tales from the South 015 with Lawrence Hamilton
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Tales from the South 017 with Janis Kearney
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
"Metaphoric Race" by Novana Venerable
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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With a black father that wanted to be darker and an aunt that passed for white, Novana writes about how to accept her biracial identity. This poet...

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
"Spaghetti Sauce" by Tabitha Watson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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One young writer's lessons learning from a family member with a mental disability. This poet is a student at Oak Park-River Forest High School (IL).

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:27