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Season 1.5, Episode 3 Retried Judge Calvin Johnson was a lot of firsts, including the first elected African American judge in New Orleans. Johnso...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 11:51
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Season 1.5, Episode 1 Being mistreated by the police, or seeing a family member mistreated by the police is traumatic, and it can cause lasting pr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 10:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption:  Nia Cosby and Chalana McFarland in Marietta, GA on June 28, 2020., Credit: Michael Reese for StoryCorps.
After being incarcerated for 15 years, Chalana McFarland is reunited with her daughter following a federal memorandum that called for releasing non...

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


  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Burial of Billy Hornstein, Credit: Photo retrieved from Abraham L. Green & Son
Freelance journalist Jed Alexander talks with a family member about the experience of losing a brother during the pandemic, and the religious tradi...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 05:57
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From diapers to day care and beyond, it’s getting more expensive to raise a family in the U.S. We speak with three families about what it takes to ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 21:57
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American women are waiting longer to have children—but are more likely to have kids than they were a decade ago. In this episode, a Pew researcher ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 18:39
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Reydesel, a legally deaf undocumented college graduate, shares how he went from suicidal to successful after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arri...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 17:35
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Kiara tells a tender story of flying home to Mexico for the first time since she was four to see her ailing grandmother. (*She was able to visit as...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 14:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Roman Coley Davis poses for a picture with his grandmother, "Mema" Laverne Tanner, whose special delivery from 7,000 miles away eased some of her grandson's homesickness., Credit: Dailey Hubbard
Former Army intelligence collector Roman Coley Davis talks about a package he received while stationed in Afghanistan.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Popular public radio hosts, past and present, read short eulogies to just some of the tens of thousands lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the las...

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KAAD-LP, Boise State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 42
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The person Besher admires the most is his father, a well known surgeon in Aleppo, Syria. Everything changed when they fled, except his love.

  • Added: May 11, 2020
  • Length: 12:26
Caption: Sam Brinton, OutCasting youth participant Andrew
An exploration of a discredited and often harmful practice of trying to change gay to straight.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sam Brinton, OutCasting youth participant Andrew
An exploration of a discredited and often harmful practice of trying to change gay to straight.

Bought by Radio Catskill and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Mar 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this episode of Art Beat... When you break a leg, you go to the doctor and they put a cast on it. Everyone can see that you have a cast on and t...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 41:11
Caption: True Hope Community Church.
At a book group meeting, women went around the circle and introduced themselves. They found out that nearly everyone there had a son addicted to he...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:42
Caption: Kathleen Drier Photography
Episode 50: Action is the Antidote to Despair

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:16
Caption: Shannon McCarty on April 26, 2018 before all her teeth were pulled., Credit: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
For Shannon McCarty, two things were crucial in her recovery: connections and timing. It started with timing – a key encounter just when she wanted...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 30:30
Caption: Lebronze and Arguster Davis at their StoryCorps interview in Birmingham on October 3, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Lebronze and Arguster Davis grew up on their family’s farm in Wetumpka, Alabama. As two of 17 siblings, they had little time for anything outside o...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 03:01
Caption: Wes and Callie Ross hold Troy with their daughter, Kennedy, at a football game.
Tyler Grina talked to his former second-grade teacher, Callie Ross, and her husband, Wes, in Great Falls, Montana, about their son, Troy, who's 5. ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:17
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Journalist and biographer David Maraniss talks with fellow author John Bacon.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
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In preparation for D Grant's upcoming book, this 2 part mini-series provides the soundtrack to many of the songs that were a part of his journey in...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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This Is The Voice Of Maxine Who Past Away In 2008

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Alex with Mimi and Jerry Goodman, Credit: Jim MacLean
This week on OutCasting, public radio’s LGBTQ youth program, OutCasting youth participant Alex continues his conversation with Mimi and Jerry Goodm...

Bought by KZYX and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Houda, her mom and sister, and their friend Mishelle on the tram in Sabino Canyon
Episode 31 Two years ago on July 28th, Houda’s family stepped off a plane into the intense Tucson heat. They weren’t sure what was in store for the...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
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“Listen to the Marriage” is a novel by John Jay Osborn, a retired lawyer and law professor. The story centers a marriage counselor and a recently s...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00