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Caption: The Beloved Community Village at its new home, Credit: Rae Solomon
Aurora has finally found a stable home, after 14 years, at the Beloved Community Village, a tiny home colony for people experiencing homelessness i...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 17:12
Caption: Tanya Benson, Credit: Tanya Benson
Feature story about a woman squatting in an abandoned house in Detroit with her family of five.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
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In 1979, Tanya James went to work in the West Virginia coal mines. She came to StoryCorps to share her experiences from those early days.

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WRIR, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Client of doula Traver Riggins, 7 months pregnant., Credit: Leila Day
A doula is a woman who helps another woman through the process of childbirth. Traver Riggins says when she learned about how a doula could help, sh...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Peggy & Lacey Schwartz, San Francisco, CA  8/5/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lacey and Peggy Schwartz talk capturing the right moment, the fluid nature of reality, and the revelation of openness.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 18:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Emily McWilliams comes from a family of musicians. She always performed and written music: she's been playing the piano for 20 years and composes s...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
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Dana Ben-Ari talks humor, visibility, and why equality shouldn’t be confused with sameness.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode Sixty-Two, Mary! Thank you for supporting all that episodic exposition! This episode we speak with romance novelist Mary Tate Engels. Autho...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
Caption: Constance Carman says goodbye to a soldier., Credit: Julia Barton
When U.S. soldiers come back home on leave, they fly through a few central airports. For soldiers headed west of the Mississippi River, that airpor...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KPVL, Troy Public Radio, Delta College Public Radio, The Story and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 7
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Maine Roller Derby skated into Portland, Maine and called the city home in 2006. Roller derby is a fast-paced full-contact sport played on skates.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
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A Roma couple who married as teenagers campaign against child marriage.

Bought by WBEZ, PRX Remix, Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 11:32
  • Purchases: 4
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Woman who cares for babies before adoption.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WFUV


  • Added: Apr 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 2
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A grandmother's quest to help her disabled daughter

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WTJU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2003
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 6