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The Untold Story of International Holocaust Remembrance Day with Michael Berenbauym
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Michael Berenbaum as he comes to the St. Cl...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Celebrating Black History Month with Poet Gwendolyn Brooks
From: New Letters on the Air
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The late Gwendolyn Brooks shaped countless writers following her long poetic career. This episode looks back on her life as the first African-Amer...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WDCB, WNMU-FM, KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Char Lewis #1
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Native Spirituality Circle
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Char Lewis shares her life stories and the wisdom she has accumulated over the years. Topics include hunting and traditional native american ways.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 05:24
150 Years after the Navajo Long Walk
From: Alix Blair
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"You can't heal from something unless you really honor that it happened." This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of 1868, which relea...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:07:35
StoryCorps: Keith Sims and Melvin Pender
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Melvin Pender (right) with his friend, Keith Sims, at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta last month.
During the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, many black athletes were called to protest racial inequality. Not all were able to do so. That was the case f...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Harjit Sodhi and Rana Sodhi
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Rana Sodhi (L) and Harjit Sodhi hold a photograph of their late brother, Balbir Singh Sodhi, who was shot and killed at 52. Since his death, the brothers have been involved in educating others about Sikhism and the discrimination their community faces in , Credit: Mia Warren
Rana and Harjit Sodhi remember their brother, Balbir Singh Sodhi, who was killed in the very first hate crime after the September 11th attacks.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of the Stearns History Museum's Executive Director Carie Essig
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s episode of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, we get to meet the new Executive Director of the Stearns History Museum, Carie Essig...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 31:04
I Was Boston
From: Otis Gray
Caption: Keven Joyce, umpiring a JV baseball game in Plymouth, Credit: Otis Gray
50 years after the infamous Battle of Hue, a Vietnam vet talks about living with memories you have no choice but to carry.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
Atilano Bernardo David, WWII Veteran on Resilience
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Atilano Bernardo David, Credit: Alden Bruce
A short Memorial Day affirmation from WWII veteran, Atilano Bernardo David, describes shares his wisdom on resilience after surviving war and the B...

  • Added: May 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:51
The Spirit of Viet Nam Is Stronger Than U.S. Bombs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Colonialists, International Traitors, Think Carefully Before You Take Vietnam, Credit: To Lien (1978), Courtesy of Vietnam Victory Coalition
Fifty years ago, the Vietnamese Liberation Front inspired people of color around the world who were building movements for self-determination. Tod...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Untold Story of The White Rose Resistance Movement with Jud Newborn Part 2
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota is Part 2 of Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack’s interview with Professor Jud Newborn in hon...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:31
The Untold Story of The White Rose Resistance Movement with Jud Newborn Part 1
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota honors International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, January 27, with the first half of a two-part...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 30:12
StoryCorps: Christopher Harris
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Christopher Harris
StoryCorps Legacy gives people with serious illnesses the chance to share their stories. At Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Christopher Harris recorded...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Golden Record
From: Dominique Johnson
Series: Come As You Are
Caption: NASA's Golden Record, Credit: NASA
We wanted to know what's out there. We wanted to tell our stories, too. So we sent a message in a bottle out into interstellar space. The NASA Voya...

Bought by WVTF


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:47:58
  • Purchases: 1
WWII Life in the Navy
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Joining the US Navy at 18, John Baker was called to duty after the United States had been fighting in WWII for three years. His two year experience...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:02
Calling Out the Ancestors: My Family's Lingering Civil War Ghosts
From: Saro Lynch-Thomason
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An exploration of regional memories of the American Civil War and the ways we use story to hide or confront our complicated past.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 20:40
StoryCorps: Tom Sullivan and Terry Sullivan
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Tom and Terry Sullivan holding a photo of their son, Alex
On July 20, 2012, a gunman shot and killed 12 people in a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. One of the victims was Alex Sullivan. He was ce...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Gary Koivu and Kim Koivu
From: StoryCorps
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Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman living near Detroit. On a June night in 1982, he and a group of friends went out to celebrate his wedding,...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 2
Sock it to me: 50 years after Monterey Pop, a teenaged photographer's historic takeaway
From: Valerie Hamilton
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A teenaged photographer took a road trip to the Summer of Love and captured a piece of rock and roll history. TRT 4:00; remainder is optional music.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Best And Worst A Country Has To Offer
From: Virginia Lora
Caption: Building of the former Michael Bianco, Inc. Factory, Credit: Photo by Virginia Lora
In 2007, hundreds of undocumented immigrants working illegally in a leather-goods factory in New Bedford, MA, were arrested by Federal Immigration ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 5
A Family's Portrait
From: Virginia Lora
Caption: Photo of artist's piece "Their Fate Was Sealed: November 11, 1961" , Credit: Photo by Orleans Camera and Video
Marie Canaves came to the U.S. from Cuba at age 7, when her family fled the Communist Revolution. Marie grew up to become a visual artist but it wa...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Vaughn Allex and Denise Allex
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Vaughn Allex and Denise Allex
A former airline employee discusses the aftereffects of knowing he checked two 9/11 hijackers onto the plane that was flown into the Pentagon.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Armeen Hamdani and Talat Hamdani
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Talat Hamdani (left) and Armeen Hamdani (right)
Talat Hamdani remembers her son, a NYPD cadet who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was wrongfully accused of having terrorist links.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:13
StoryCorps OutLoud: Joel Tucker and Gordon Blake
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Joel Tucker (left) and his friend, Gordon Blake (right)
In this special StoryCorps production, Joel Tucker and his friend Gordon Blake share Joel’s experiences following an anti-LGBTQ incident from 2000.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps OutLoud: Reverend Troy Perry
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Phillip “Buddy” De Blieck (left) and Rev. Troy Perry (right) , Credit: Rev. Troy Perry
On June 24, 1973, an intentionally set fire tore through a New Orleans gay bar killing 32. Rev. Troy Perry came to StoryCorps to recall the aftermath.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 3

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