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StoryCorps: SADA JACKSON AND ANGELA MOREHEAD-MUGITA
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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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
StoryCorps: Lisa Bouler Daniels and Benjamin Chambers
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lisa Bouler Daniels tells her biological brother Benjamin Chambers what it was like to learn about her birth mother after she passed away.

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:49
Finding Our Fathers
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Eboni (left) and Raven (right)
Raven and Eboni are friends who look like each other. And there are not a lot of people who like they do at their college in Missoula, Montana. But...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Keith Miller and Ellen Hughes
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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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
Anthony Clary: Of Love and Forgiveness, Part 2 (conclusion)
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The Clarys on their front porch., Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Anthony Clary grew up in the largest public housing project in Richmond, Virginia, a place called Blackwell. In its day it was notorious for the am...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2019
  • Length: 26:22
StoryCorps: Sharon Adams and Larry Adams
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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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
Masterpiece in the Mire
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Each day starts off at ground zero. Based on my motivation, it'll either be mundane or it'll be a masterpiece.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
Neat
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A solo performance from a master storyteller.

Bought by KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, WNJR, WCPN, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 17
Sashay Selections
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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What you want for your brother, want for yourself.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Tayari Jones
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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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
RDD: SunBridge, Meet the Kids
From: WGTE Public Media
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We're headed back to school on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries! Join us as we take a tour of SunBridge Schools in Toledo, OH.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 06:03
StoryCorps: Percy White III and Terry Wright
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Perry White III and Terry Wright
Percy White III tells his friend Terry Wright about his family’s time as sharecroppers on a Virginia farm.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
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: Brandy Carpenter and De'Marchoe Carpenter
From: StoryCorps
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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
Caption: Ed Cage and Nicole Paris
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
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
Special for Mother's Day, Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
From: Making Contact
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For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Dennis Simmonds and Roxanne Simmonds
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Roxanne Simmonds and her husband, Dennis, remember their son, police officer D.J. Simmonds, who died due to injuries he sustained confronting the B...

Bought by WVBI-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 2
The Year of the Black Superhero: Black Lightning Strikes
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: Cress Williams at 2018 San Diego Comic Con
This package features a short music bed before and after the piece. It looks at the rise of Black Lightning and why the time has arisen now, the re...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 04:32
StoryCorps Griot: Tanai Benard and Dezmond Floyd
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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10-year-old Dezmond Floyd talks with his mother, Tanai Benard, about the active shooter drills in his 5th grade classroom.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
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
Soul Source
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I get so much love from the customers in here. It’s better than where I came from.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 83: The Mothers
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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There is a group in Durham, NC called “Parents of Murdered Children.” This week, we meet three of its members.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 25:09
What's next? (with Alexis Frank)
From: Kaizar Campwala
Series: Closer Than They Appear
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How do you feel about the future? Do you feel hopeful? Do you feel scared? Can we move forward together as a country? In our Season 1 finale, Carve...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 30:48
  • Purchases: 1
What can I give? (with Eva Paterson and Aunt Bea)
From: Kaizar Campwala
Series: Closer Than They Appear
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How do you stand against evil, but not the evildoer? How do you go to war for what's right with love for the people you're fighting? Carvell Wallac...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 38:36

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