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StoryCorps: David Wilson and Robert Compton

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

David Wilson and his husband Rob Compton, one of the first legally married same-sex couples in the US, talk about how they met and reflect on the s...

Bought by WDBM

Added: Jun 11, 2019
Length: 04:45
Purchases: 1

StoryCorps: Keith Miller and Ellen Hughes

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Ellen Hughes speaks with Keith Miller, the hospital safety officer who helped her son when he had a violent reaction to a medication.

Added: Apr 22, 2019
Length: 02:34

StoryCorps Griot: Jeanne Satterfield

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

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

RDD: Ruby's Dream

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

This week we're meeting a local business owner. Ruby owns Ruby kitchen in Maumee, Ohio, join us to hear how Ruby turned her dream of owning her own...

Added: Mar 18, 2019
Length: 06:09

Celebrating Black History Month with Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

From: New Letters on the Air

The late Gwendolyn Brooks shaped countless writers following her long poetic career. This episode looks back on her life as the first African-Amer...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WDCB, WNMU-FM, KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more

Added: Feb 13, 2019
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 9

StoryCorps: Brandy Carpenter and De'Marchoe Carpenter

From: StoryCorps

De’Marchoe Carpenter and his wife Brandy Carpenter talk about the impact of his wrongful conviction on their relationship.

Bought by WVBI-LP

Added: Jul 23, 2018
Length: 02:39
Purchases: 1

StoryCorps: Ed Cage and Nicole Paris

From: StoryCorps

Ed Cage and Nicole Paris are a father-daughter beatboxing duo. At StoryCorps, they talk about how it all began.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis

Added: Jul 16, 2018
Length: 02:44
Purchases: 1

Episode 3: Always Tomorrow

From: Criminal
Series: This is Love

A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance.

Added: Mar 27, 2018
Length: 24:49

I Will Not Fear: Melba Beals of the Little Rock Nine

From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit

Melba Beals, one of the nine African-American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, tells her story of faith under fire.

Bought by WHYY and WETS

Added: Mar 12, 2018
Length: 53:59
Purchases: 2

StoryCorps: William Lynn Weaver

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Dr. William Lynn Weaver remembers one Christmas when he was 18 years old in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WVBI-LP, and WEZU

Added: Jan 23, 2018
Length: 02:30
Purchases: 3

WoodSongs 912: The Legendary Shack Shakers and Donald Ryan & Barron Ryan

From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs

Caption: Master musicians Donald and Barron on the same piano!

On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes country fried rock and roll with The Legendary Shack Shakers plus dynamic...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KKRN, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio), KDLG and more

Added: Jan 04, 2018
Length: 59:02
Purchases: 12

StoryCorps: Ronald Clark and Jamilah Clark

From: StoryCorps

During the 1940s, custodians who worked for the New York Public Library often lived inside the buildings they tended. In exchange for cleaning and ...

Added: Oct 17, 2017
Length: 02:11

Listening to Ladies: Dolores White

From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies

Composer Dolores White talks about some of her experiences of segregation, the importance of having access to a broad cultural education, and why e...

Added: May 08, 2017
Length: 30:20

StoryCorps: Toni Henson and Camaran Henson

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Camaran Henson grew up hearing stories about his grandfather, Leonard Simmons, who was a police officer in Newark, New Jersey. He came to StoryCorp...

Bought by Public Radio for All, KALW, WEZU, and WMUU-LP

Added: Mar 13, 2017
Length: 03:01
Purchases: 4

StoryCorps Griot: Melva Washington Toomer and John Washington

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

John Washington, 95, who is blind and deaf, recently recorded a StoryCorps interview with his eldest child, Melva, using a TeleBraille machine.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRIR

Added: Aug 22, 2016
Length: 02:34
Purchases: 3

StoryCorps Griot: Alice Mitchell and Ibukun Owolabi

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

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

StoryCorps OutLoud: Carole Smiley with Seth and Octavius Smiley-Humphries

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Seth Smiley and Octavius Humphries had their first date on Christmas Eve. They discuss that and other memorable holiday events they have shared.

Bought by WMUU-LP

Added: Mar 25, 2016
Length: 03:23
Purchases: 1

StoryCorps: François Clemmons and Karl Lindholm

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

François Clemmons played Officer Clemmons on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." He came to StoryCorps to discuss the role and his life.

Bought by WITF, WMUU-LP, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Blue Mountain Radio

Added: Mar 11, 2016
Length: 02:51
Purchases: 5

StoryCorps Griot: Burnell Cotlon and Lillie Cotlon

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Lillie Cotlon (L) and Burnell Cotlon (R), Credit: Ian Spencer Cook for StoryCorps

Burnell Cotlon owns and operates the only grocery store in the Lower Ninth Ward. When it opened in 2014, it was the first grocery store to serve th...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WTJU

Added: Aug 21, 2015
Length: 02:11
Purchases: 2

StoryCorps Griot: Mario Loiseau and Mabou Loiseau

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Mario Loiseau (L) and Mabou Loiseau (R)

Mario Loiseau talks with his 9-year-old daughter, Mabou, about why he works so hard to provide for her education.

Added: Jul 01, 2015
Length: 01:48

Taking Nothing for Granted, Mathias' National Anthem

From: D. 'Fitz' Allgood
Series: The Allgood News

Caption: Mathias Mulumbo- Singing in Uganda

I dropped by the National Anthem tryouts for the local minor league baseball team. Looking for a story about people singing and why. And then I hea...

Added: Mar 24, 2015
Length: 01:42

StoryCorps: Roy Wilkins and Keith Melick

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Command Sergeant Major Roy Wilkins and Retired Army 1st Sergeant Keith Melick, who first crossed paths at war in 2004, talk about reuniting in a VA...

Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU

Added: Dec 09, 2014
Length: 03:44
Purchases: 3

StoryCorps: Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Miguel Alvarez (L) and Maurice Rowland (R) remember caring for residents at an assisted living home, where they were a janitor and a cook, when it ...

Bought by WRIR, Blue Mountain Radio , WTJU, and WEZU