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StoryCorps Griot: Nidera Brown and Conchetta Brown

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Nidera and Conchetta Brown at their StoryCorps interview in San Antonio, TX on November 17, 2022, Credit: Manuela Velasquez for StoryCorps

Conchetta Brown and her daughter, Nidera Brown, discuss their close relationship in life and in death.

Bought by KALW

StoryCorps: Leila Ramgren and Chad Eisen-Ramgren

From: StoryCorps

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

Episode 83: The Mothers

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

There is a group in Durham, NC called “Parents of Murdered Children.” This week, we meet three of its members.

U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16) Natasha Trethewey

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

StoryCorps: Francine Anderson

From: StoryCorps

Francine Anderson grew up in rural Virginia during the 1950s. It was the Jim Crow South and “Whites Only” signs punctuated the windows of many busi...

Bought by WVBI-LP

StoryCorps: Emily Addison

From: StoryCorps

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

An African-American poet's tribute...

From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: NOVEMBER, 2015

...To her late Eritrean-American husband, Ficre -- a painter, chef, and loving father -- in Elizabeth Alexander's new memoir, The Light Of The Worl...

A Good Mom

From: City High Radio

Ceyela, age seventeen, struggles to understand how her mom's mental illness has affected their relationship.

From the streets to the barbershop

From: Tatyana Safronova

Caption: Andre Simms and Junior, Credit: Laurie Feld

Andre Simms is 45. He’s been shot. Stabbed. Homeless. Arrested. He sold and used drugs. But everything changed when his girlfriend died and he was ...

Bought by PRX Remix

StoryCorps: Alex Landau and Patsy Hathaway

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Alex Landau, who is African American, and his adoptive mother, Patsy Hathaway, who is white,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WTJU, and KMUD

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...