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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
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
Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:00
Conchetta Brown and her daughter, Nidera Brown, discuss their close relationship in life and in death.
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
Bernetta came to StoryCorps with her friend, Raymond Mabion II to talk about her grandfather, and the food legacy he’s passed down.
- Added: Jan 16, 2024
- Length: 02:23
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes singer and multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins plus old time string band ...
Bought by KUPR low power FM, KMSU, KEDT, KCHW, KJZX-Austin and more
- Added: Dec 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 58
Come along with the Pierson's to share insight of true enterpreneurship.
- Added: Dec 16, 2023
- Length: 57:41
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 58:57
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
James McBride’s newest book is THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.
As the s...
- Added: Aug 18, 2023
- Length: 10:05
Luz Kenyon tells her daughter, Anna Paloma Williams, about the unexpected start of their family and how she navigated raising mixed kids in America.
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 03:11
Growing up in LA’s Watts neighborhood, a visit to a traveling carnival introduced Charlie Sampson to life as a professional cowboy. In 1982 he beca...
- Added: Jul 03, 2023
- Length: 03:00
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
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
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world — and it is Black mothers who are dying at the hig...
Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: May 31, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
Shannon Gibney talks about her new picture book "Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight"
- Added: Apr 20, 2023
- Length: 08:04
Folashade Alao remembers when she presented a Bill of Rights to her mother, Margaret Powell, and how it shaped their relationship.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2023
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
Food is an expression of who we are. Table host and folklorist next door, Yvette Blair-Lavallais, catches up with two generations of two North Texa...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 13:08
Danny Bell tells his daughter Sydia about trying to teach her mother to drive.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Feb 23, 2023
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Rev. Harry Blake came to StoryCorps to speak with his daughter Monica Mickle about how his experiences growing up the son of a sharecropper in Loui...
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 02:44
Sisters Didi Ndando and Egbe Monjimbo talk with Atiba Mbiwan, who honored the memory of their late brother Acha by taking on the family’s last name.
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 02:47
Generational Gene may seem a special case; a middle-aged school superintendent with a father and grandfather who’ve contracted Type 2 diabetes, Gen...
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 18:29
Filmmaker Loira Limbal talks about her 2020 documentary Through the Night which examines a home-based 24-hour day-care center and the personal cost...
Bought by RADIOLEX, KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 4
Tesia Williams talks to her daughter, Mikayla Stephens, about being at the Pentagon during the terrorist attack on 9/11 and how that day shaped her...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Sep 22, 2022
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
Nelva Williamson came to StoryCorps with her son Timothy J. Harris to reflect on a life in the classroom and her commitment to shedding light on hi...
- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 02:53
