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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
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
Tesia Williams talks to her daughter, Mikayla Stephens, about being at the Pentagon during the terrorist attack on 9/11 and how that day shaped her...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Sep 22, 2022
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
We revisit a conversation with award-winning poet Geffrey Davis about his collection, "Night Angler." He also reads several poems from the collection.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, KNCT FM, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
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
On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 45:28
Inter-racial and LGBTQ dating stories
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 58:00
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
Ishia Lynette is Austin Justice Coalitions Social Media Manager and Community Service Director. An El Paso native who moved to Austin in 2012, she ...
- Added: May 29, 2021
- Length: 07:51
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
Old friends Jeanne Satterfield and Barbara Parham talk about how their unexpected reunion in a shelter led them closer to home.
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 01:47
Charisse Spencer tells her teenage son Myles what it was like integrating her elementary school in Norfolk, Virginia in the 1960s.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: May 17, 2018
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
From: New Letters on the Air
Guest editor of BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2017, Natasha Trethewey talks about her her first creative non-fiction book, BEYOND KATRINA: A MEDITATION ON T...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Sep 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We continue Black History Month with Phyllis Becker. Coordinator of the Riverfront Reading Series in Kansas City, her own publications include the ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
A social worker who now helps others who are making the transition from prison talks with his mentor about their first meeting inside Sing Sing pri...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and Public Radio for All
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 3
Radio Curious visits with Onaje Woodbine, author of “Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball,” a memoir that explores t...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 58:02
Jim Saint Germain and his former middle school dean discuss pivotal moments in their relationship and lessons Jim learned from his mentor.
- Added: Jul 25, 2016
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 3
Alice Mitchell and her 10-year-old brother, Ibukun, came to StoryCorps to talk for the first time about their mother who died just weeks after his ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 06:21
On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a new cast member of Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona MN. This individual recently graduated f...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 22:01
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...
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious continues its series on racism in a conversation with Bill Durham, a 59 year old black man from Ohio who now lives in Mendocino Count...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Raphael and Heidi Hameed (R) lost their son when he was struck by a speeding car. They spoke with Megiddëh Goldston (L), the driver's sister, about...
Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 3
Eleanor Warren talks about her song, "Coming Home."
- Added: Nov 02, 2014
- Length: 04:09
- 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
"I have been challenged to fight for saying 'can't we all get along.' I’ve had people say I want to kick your ass for saying that." - Rodney King
I...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 06:48
- Purchases: 2
