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A decision to attend the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) as a Liberal tested James Coan and led to a surprising outcome about unity.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2024
  • Length: 15:06
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Just a few months after the Sandy Hook massacre, Newtown needed to decide what to do with the old school building. Rich Harwood was called in to help.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2024
  • Length: 21:13
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Meisha Lerato shares when she decided to confront a group of rowdy boys at a hotel pool, a decision that challenged her views on race and respect.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2024
  • Length: 17:42
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Preston Brightwell and Madeleine Jones (The Dignity Index) tell us about a heated discussion over the use of one word in their project's tagline.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 15:53
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Richard Craft, host of The Men of the House Podcast, shares how a remark to some of his employees led to a a formal write-up. But how did he respond?

  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 21:15
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As a child in Iran, Shima Baughman—criminal law professor and author—was taught to hate Israel. But then she chose to defend a Hasidic Jew in court.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2024
  • Length: 22:04
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Lisa Valentine Clark—host of The Lisa Show—had the perfect gift for her friend's 40th birthday. But she couldn't have been farther from the truth.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2024
  • Length: 21:25
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Parker Kane—beatboxer and motivational speaker—was in the midst of a mental health crisis. But then a call from a close friend changed everything. 

  • Added: Jul 18, 2024
  • Length: 18:42
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What happens when your children don’t meet society’s expectations for development and behavior? Two mothers of adults with mental health challenges...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 24, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nunnabove: Bennet, Wisdom, Candace, and Mattie Nunn (L to R), Credit: Kaden Demer
Two Minnesota family bands, the Steeles and the Nunns, talk about making music with family members.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2024
  • Length: 06:58
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Women discuss the challenges but especially the joys of being a mother. In this time of social media oversharing, young women may get the message t...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Episode 62 delves into the critical issue of gender-based violence, encompassing domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:12
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Realizing she is nearing the end of life, Scott Miller sits down with his mom, Jackie Miller, for one last interview.

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Childhood friends Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez and Jim Murphy grew up together on the south side of Tucson, Arizona, but were less than friends initially...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:33
Caption:  Donna Salemink and Melissa Salemink at their StoryCorps interview in Loveland, Colorado on September 19, 2023, Credit: Zanna McKay
Donna Salemink and her daughter, Melissa, remember how Donna’s life was altered forever after she was struck by lightning.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Inside the Afghan Cultural Society in Minneapolis, Credit: Mike Moen
More individuals who have fled Afghanistan are trying to make the Twin Cities their home. A resource site in Minneapolis, now nearing its first an...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 04:15
Caption: Cass Lake, 1908
In 2016, genealogist Mica L. Anders interviewed 7 families about their summer cabins in the north woods of Minnesota for the Minnesota Historical S...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:42
Caption: Chloe E.W. Levine and Carl Levine at their StoryCorps interview in New York City on May 5, 2023., Credit: By Julia Kirschenbaum for StoryCorps
Carl Levine and his daughter, Chloe E.W. Levine, look back on what contra dance has meant to their family.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:25
Caption: Larry Itliong speaks to the United Farm Workers, undated photograph, Credit: courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
Johnny Itliong came to StoryCorps with his son Aleks to remember Larry Itliong, labor leader for the Delano Grape Strike of 1965.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jarie Bradley and Menaja Obinali at their first StoryCorps interview in Dallas, Texas on December 13, 2014., Credit: By Callie Thuma for StoryCorps.
Jarie Bradley reflects with her aunt, Menaja Obinali, on the lessons she’s learned in their decades-long friendship.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Failure is inevitable so the question is: how good are we at repair?

  • Added: Jun 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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If you ask Hannah Jean what would be her greatest wish, she will say running Brooklyn Public Library. Last month, she got to do just that.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 09:14
Caption: Les Harris and Angie Presly at their StoryCorps interview in Springfield, MO on April 22, 2022., Credit: By Sarah Padgett for StoryCorps.
Les Harris and his daughter Angie Presley talk about how the accident that left him paralyzed changed their lives.

Bought by St. Louis Public Radio and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 2
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Although 2019 was not a good year for Haley, this episode actually features one of her strongest allies throughout bad years and good ones. A frien...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 08:01