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History is made by the daily decisions of regular people. One family's story of the Great Migration.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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In 1963, a 12-year-old Freeman Hrabowski III accepted Martin Luther King's challenge to march, and that week set the course of his life.

  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 52:49
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Cleveland cheered on the Indians as the team integrated and began winning big.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., GCR (Global Community Radio), KNCT FM, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Myeshia Oates and Derek Bart at their StoryCorps interview in Santa Clarita, CA on August 23, 2021.
Nearly 30 years after surviving a house fire as a kid, Myeshia Oates reunites with the Los Angeles County firefighter who saved her life, Derek Bart.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chef Yia Vang, Credit: Erin Cahanes
Immigrants are spicing up Minnesota food. In this episode of the MinneCulture podcast, host Jumondeh Tweh gets cooking tips from his Liberian mothe...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 18:01
Caption: Denise Baken (center) with her children Christian Yingling (left) and Richard Yingling (right) at their StoryCorps interview in Baltimore, MD on August 23, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Denise Baken tells her children about her family's legacy of military service—and the battles faced along the way.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, PRX Remix, and WHRV


  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Rodney Evans, San Francisco, CA, 6/28/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Rodney Evans talks evolution, humor, and blindness as a point of view.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 20:08
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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
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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
Caption: Johnny Holmes (left) and Christian Picciolini (right)
In the 1990s, Johnny Holmes was head of security at a high school in Blue Island, Illinois, located just outside of Chicago, where he met Christian...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:19
Caption: Francine Anderson
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


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
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The US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Willie Harris and Alex Brown remember the prejudice they faced as African American stuntmen while breaking into the film industry in the 1960s.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Brian "Scoop" Nemeth, Credit: Noel Black
In this episode of Wish We Were here, we tell the story of Brian "Scoop" Nemeth, a man with high-functioning autism whose singular goal in life is ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:05
Caption: Ericka Naegle (L) and Walter Naegle (R)
Walter Naegle tells his niece, Ericka, about the unconventional decision that he and his partner, Bayard Rustin, made to protect their union.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bloody Sunday-Selma, Alabama
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...

Bought by KMUN and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, then Stevie Wonder should know the feeling of flattery well. His son...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Betty Davis, former wife of Miles Davis
This week, Ayana Contreras brings us vintage music from women whose careers were overshadowed by their associations with megastars. From the ex-wif...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Vocalo contributor Alex Thibodeau talks about growing up biracial outside of Detroit… without the benefit of knowing his Jamaican father. He shares...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 2
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Martin Woods talks to Audra Wilson about the challenges and the rewards of being a Black Operatic Baritone from the West Side of Chicago, and takin...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Alton Yates tells his daughter, Toni, about being part of a small group of Air...

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WEZU, WTJU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Hackney Brothers, Credit: Facebook
In the mid 1970s, three teenage brothers from Detroit formed a band. That’s not exactly an unusual story. Motown history is full of bands that made...

Bought by WDBM, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Herman (L) and Sidney Blake
Herman Blake and his brother Sidney remember their childhood during the 1940s

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, and WITF


  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Bernard Holyfield (R) and Charles Barlow
Bernard Holyfield (R) tells his friend Charles Barlow (L) about a painful memory from his childhood in the 1960s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Reverend Eric Williams tells his co-worker Jannette Berkley-Patton about his first experience with AIDS.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 2