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The Healing Place
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Cass Lake, 1908
In 2016, genealogist Mica L. Anders interviewed 7 families about their summer cabins in the north woods of Minnesota for the Minnesota Historical S...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:42
StoryCorps Griot: Jarie Bradley and Menaja Obinali
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Jarie Bradley and Menaja Obinali at their first StoryCorps interview in Dallas, Texas on December 13, 2014., Credit: By Callie Thuma for StoryCorps.
Jarie Bradley reflects with her aunt, Menaja Obinali, on the lessons she’s learned in their decades-long friendship.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
Meet Our (Almost) Six-Year-Old Librarian
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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If you ask Hannah Jean what would be her greatest wish, she will say running Brooklyn Public Library. Last month, she got to do just that.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 09:14
Food, Family, and the Stories We Share: Hand-Patted Foods in Texas
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
Food is an expression of who we are. Table host and folklorist next door, Yvette Blair-Lavallais, catches up with two generations of two North Texa...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 13:08
Generational Gene
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: My Body Odyssey
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Generational Gene may seem a special case; a middle-aged school superintendent with a father and grandfather who’ve contracted Type 2 diabetes, Gen...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 18:29
StoryCorps: Nelva Williamson and Timothy Harris
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Nelva Williamson came to StoryCorps with her son Timothy J. Harris to reflect on a life in the classroom and her commitment to shedding light on hi...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:53
Pulitzer Prize Winner Leonard Pitts Jr.
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Leonard Pitts Jr.
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WJCU


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The People Could Fly
From: La Siréna Imakhu
Series: Black History Month
Caption: Queen Mother Imakhu
Queen Mother Imakhu's rendition of the African American folktale about a group of mystical enslaved Africans who escaped their oppression by regain...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2022
  • Length: 08:35
Sunni of Blush: Strength Is the Power to Withstand
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Sunni, Credit: Shefik
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
WAMU Presents: Through The Cracks
From: WAMU
Series: WAMU Presents
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An hour-long radio special available to all public radio stations. This special program features selected portions of the Through The Cracks podcas...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, WITF, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 21
GN_5.11_PeaceForPlay
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A former Chicago gang member enters rival territory to ask for peace.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Best of the Best 2020: The Great Indoors
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, three winning stories of the 2020 Third Coast/RHDF Competition each paint a unique portrait of survival and hope in the time of co...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, Prairie Public, New England Public Media, WGBH Radio Boston, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Ultimate Fugitive
From: KLCC
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This is a story about an Ultimate player trying to outrun his past. When he stopped running, he was in Eugene, Oregon. Where for the next four yea...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 57:28
  • Purchases: 2
Time Well Spent - Bypass
From: Ronald Young Jr
Series: Time Well Spent - Bypass Series
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In this episode, I reveal a secret that i've kept from my parents for 16 years. What direction will this go?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 24:50
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Rohulamin Quander and Alicia Argrett
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Rohulamin Quander at his home in Washington D.C. in 2016 and Alicia Argrett in Madison, Mississippi in 2010., Credit: Rohulamin Quander and Alicia Argrett.
An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Albert Sykes and Aidan Sykes (UPDATE)
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Albert and Aidan Sykes in Jackson, Mississippi, 2020, Credit: Albert Sykes.
Albert Sykes returns to StoryCorps with his son Aidan--now 14-- to talk about how Aidan is feeling as a young Black man in 2020.

Bought by WERA-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Albert Sykes and Aidan Sykes
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Albert and Aidan Sykes at their StoryCorps interview in Jackson, Mississippi on February 20, 2015., Credit: Vanessa Gonzalez-Block for StoryCorps.
Albert Sykes speaks with his nine-year-old son, Aidan, about black fatherhood, and his hopes for the future.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WERA-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
Halfway
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2018
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My story is about the Mixed/Biracial experience in America (specifically Chicago). I chose to do this because I am mixed race. I identify as Black ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 07:40
StoryCorps: Leila Ramgren and Chad Eisen-Ramgren
From: StoryCorps
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10-year-old Leila Ramgren talks with her father, Chad Eisen-Ramgren, about Philando Castile, the cafeteria manager at her school who was killed by ...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Crash, The Rock, It Sings
From: WPLN - Nashville Public Radio
Series: Versify (shorts)
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A city councilwoman shares how her path to public service began with an act of intimidation.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 69: Becoming Chief Brown
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a police officer. Just before he retired as chief, 5 ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:52
  • Purchases: 1
Storyteller Oba William King and Samson Longtin
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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We talk with Samson Longtin, Business Equity Liaison of the Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency and renowned poetic storyteller, Oba William King...

  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 16:28
When parents are in prison, kids pay the price
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Arvaughn Williams: "Because of his incarceration, I have to show the world that I won't fall into this system and this cycle that traps so many people, black men like myself.", Credit: Catherine Girardeau
When someone is imprisoned, it doesn’t just affect the incarcerated. It affects the people left behind. Young people. Nearly three million children...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:33
Nobody Discussed It:  Lacey Schwartz and “Little White Lie”
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Lacey Schwartz, director and producer of “Little White Lie,” a documentary about her experiences growing up as a white Je...

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
StoryCorps: Albert and Aidan Sykes
From: StoryCorps
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Nine-year-old Aidan Sykes interviews his father, Albert Sykes, about being a dad.

Bought by WEZU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 2