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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:00
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
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
Sisters Didi Ndando and Egbe Monjimbo talk with Atiba Mbiwan, who honored the memory of their late brother Acha by taking on the family’s last name.
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 02:47
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
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
Madzimoyo Owusu talks with her daughter, Johannah Owusu, about the memory of Madzimoyo’s grandmother.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 22, 2021
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
Crystal Chandler finds the perfect memento of her grandfather, a former Seventh Day Adventist pastor, to take with her when she moves to New York.
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 18:26
Dr. Ayim Darkeh speaks with his mother, Shirley, about his experiences being one of the few Black students at his predominantly white elementary sc...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 1
Norman and Ora Bell have been a household name within the Toledo community for more than half a century. Known for working in local county governme...
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 06:09
Physician, writer, and speaker Mellody Hayes discusses how she helps clients "step into their power."
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 44:26
Guy Bryant talks to his foster son, Romario Vassell, about what it means to be a foster parent to more than 50 kids.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2019
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
Born and raised in Compton. It was big to come out here and see something different.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
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
Sharon and Larry Adams remember how their love story turned into a love affair with their whole community.
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 03:03
Novelist Tayari Jones talks with fellow writer Aaron Stander about her latest book, "An American Marriage."
Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Nov 11, 2018
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 2
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
I've been here through the good times and the bad times. At one time, I was the only business on this block.
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 04:16
Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir
"The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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
On June 12, 2016 a lone gunman killed 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida.Among those killed was Deonka Drayton. She was 32.
Deon...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
This week, we return to the story of Clinton “Boo” Gilkie, who died one year ago- on June 7, 2016- in the Monroe County Jail. We discussed the cir...
- Added: Jun 18, 2017
- Length: 29:38
What’s it like to be a teenager sent to prison for what may be forever, and what’s it like to be his mom?
Our story is Mother and Son.
- Added: Apr 05, 2017
- Length: 37:45
Mary Johnson-Roy first came to StoryCorps in 2011 to talk about her bond with the young man who killed her son. Years later, she married a man who ...
Bought by Public Radio for All
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
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
