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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
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
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
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
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
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
Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper sit down at StoryCorps to remember their dad and his commitment to celebrating Juneteenth.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 20, 2022
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay speaks with Rowan Allen, the EMT who saved her son’s life and inspired her to become a nurse.
- Added: Dec 28, 2021
- Length: 01:59
Strength - Mathew Knowles found phenomenal success grooming and managing the mega group Destiny's Child. He is now handing out mics to Blush, a har...
- Added: Dec 18, 2021
- Length: 01:30
Libby Stroik talks about finding a kindred spirit in her grandfather, Harry Golomski, and about her treasured memories of their quiet mornings in r...
- Added: Aug 16, 2021
- Length: 02:29
Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2021
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
We talk with Carl Hart about his book, Drug Use For Grownups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear.
We also talk with Hari Ziyad about their memoir...
- Added: May 21, 2021
- Length: 59:01
Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 27:58
- Purchases: 1
Trumpeter Wendell Brunious hails from one of New Orleans’ storied musical families -- with more than a half-dozen trumpet-playing siblings, and fat...
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 52:02
The process of cooking a dish connects Toni Burnett Rands to her ancestors. She recalls cooking with her grandmas and how power can be found throug...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 20, 2020
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green speaks with her cousin Tenika Floyd about being raised by her Auntie and Uncle, and how their separate battles with cancer...
Bought by WERA-LP
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 02:48
- Purchases: 1
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother. It's a tragic love stor...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 38:13
- Purchases: 2
Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues with Marcus Jackson, a Cave Canem Fellow, who reads from his 2019 Ohioana Award-winning poetry b...
Bought by WNMU-FM and Raven Radio
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
After seeing ads for home DNA tests on TV, John decided to give it a try. Just spit into a cup—what did he have to lose… or gain?
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 13:23
Aden Batar speaks with his son Jamal Batar about fleeing civil war and being among the first Somali refugee families to resettle in Utah.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 02:13
Sada Jackson learns about her late-mother through her mom’s best friend, Angela Morehead-Mugita.
Bought by KWMU St. Louis
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 1
Lisa Bouler Daniels tells her biological brother Benjamin Chambers what it was like to learn about her birth mother after she passed away.
- Added: May 20, 2019
- Length: 02:49
Raven and Eboni are friends who look like each other. And there are not a lot of people who like they do at their college in Missoula, Montana. But...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2019
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
