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Documenting an Invisible Island
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 17:56
Heritage Scraps from Heritage Hands: African-American Vintage Quilts
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 10:12
StoryCorps Missoula 2022 - 01
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Documentary Specials
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The first special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio on January 22nd, 2023, this f...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
Big Ron Hunter: Coming In to Eat
From: Music Maker Relief Foundation
Series: Music Maker Minute - Race in U.S.
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Big Ron Hunter is invited inside to eat with his friends.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 11:08
Teodora Schipper (b.1944 in the Philippines)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Teodora Schipper (b. 1944 in the Philippines) reflects on her life based on this 2013 interview by 5th graders Addie and Scott of Winchester Thurst...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KGLP


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 2
Niama Elharrak (b. 1971 in Morocco)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Niama Elharrak (b. 1971 in Morocco) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Hannah, Carsten and Garrett of Winchester Thur...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Marlene “Miss Pumpkin” Murphy of Homestead, Pennsylvania
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Former steelworker Marlene “Miss Pumpkin” Murphy of Homestead, Pennsylvania reflects on her life based on this 2015 interview by Propel Homestead m...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Laxmi Aryal (b. 1951 in Nepal)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Laxmi Aryal (b. 1951 in Nepal) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Mat, JP and Lily of Winchester Thurston School in P...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Karla Stept (b.1918 in Austria)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Karla Stept (b.1918 in Austria) reflects on her life based on this 2011 interview by 5th graders Anatea, Ellis and Jackson of Winchester Thurston S...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 1
Hermila Perez, Dominican Republic native who came to the U.S. in 1951
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Hermila Perez reflects on her life before and after coming to the United States in 1951 based on interviews by Clarence and Jevon, teens participat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Embedded Artist Tries Felting
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Felted Sheep, Credit: Patty Lovegreen
It's Fiber Arts Week on Area Voices! Producer Alauna Yust took a felting class with fiber artist Patty Lovegreen, and a table full of budding artis...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:19
Robert Bowden, Champion of the Underdog
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
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Hill District community leader Robert Bowden (b. 1946) reflects on his education, upbringing and life's work based on interviews conducted by stude...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Pittsburgh-based sculptor Thaddeus Mosley
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
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Pittsburgh-based sculptor Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926) reflects on his life and art based on interviews conducted by teens Martay Howard and Wyatt Wad...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:15
Hip-Hop Legend Paradise Gray
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
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Hip Hop legend Paradise Gray (b. 1964) reflects on becoming an activist and ushering in a new generation of hip-hop based on interviews by teens Da...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
Reverend Johnnie Monroe, Voice of Hope
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
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Hill District pastor and community leader Johnnie Monroe (b.1941) reflects on the importance of the church and his faith in today’s youth to become...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:33
USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor Leonard Brown
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
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Leonard Brown, USAF veteran and retired food service supervisor, aA native of Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover community, Leonard Brown (b.1934) reflects o...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
Homer Craig, Veteran and Retired Police Sergeant
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
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Veteran and retired police sergeant Homer Craig (b.1939) reflects on family and community life in Hazelwood based on interviews conducted by teens...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
Malik Bankston, Executive Director, The Kingsley Center
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
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Malik Bankston, Executive Director, The Kingsley Center (b. 1962), reflects on his college experience and his desire to better his community based ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
Rev. Donald P. Turner. Homestead pastor and retired paratrooper
From: SLB Radio
Series: Crossing Fences: Connecting African American Men & Boys through the Oral Tradition
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Pastor and retired paratrooper Donald Turner (b. 1936) reflects on racial tension in his adolescent years and his faith in God based on interviews ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
John Coltrane (Ep. 10)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Sax titan John Coltrane
In this hour, it's the life and legend of John Coltrane—from his rural North Carolina roots to his place as one of jazz's most spiritual men and mu...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, KZYX, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 34
Billie Holiday (Ep. 8)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Jazz songbird Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KMUW, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
Les Paul (Ep. 6)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Les Paul, Credit: William Gottlieb
Here's a little fact about Les Paul that you might not know: rock icon Steve Miller is Les Paul's godson. In this hour, Steve talks about his memor...

Bought by WCPN, KAZU Seaside, Calif., Radio New Zealand, KHNS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
Jazz's Great Comeback Stories (Ep. 3)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Guitarist Pat Martino survived a brain aneurysm to become one of the most soulful voices of jazz guitar.
It's one of jazz's all-time great comeback stories: In the 1950s, the great Duke Ellington was seen as a "has been." Then, out of nowhere, an epic ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCPN, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KHNS, WCPN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 25
Jazz and Film (Ep. 25)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman in the 1961 movie, "Paris Blues"
In this hour of The New Jazz Archive, we explore the shared history of jazz and film—from the role race played in shaping jazz's place at the movie...

Bought by WCPN, KHNS, KMUN, WVPE, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29