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The Lil Boy by Juwan Wooten
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
StoryCorps NTI: Ayodeji Ogunniyi
From: StoryCorps
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Ayodeji Ogunniyi describes how the death of his father inspired him to become a teacher.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:15
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Queen Jackson and Debra MacKillop
From: StoryCorps
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Queen Jackson tells her case manager, Debra MacKillop, how she became homeless.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: A.P. Tureaud Jr. and Steven Walkley
From: StoryCorps
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A.P. Tureaud Jr. tells his friend Steven Walkley about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.

Bought by KUOW and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: John Klein and Bernice Flournoy
From: StoryCorps
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John Klein remembers meeting the love of his life, Mary Ann Allen, with her daughter Bernice Flournoy.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Morris
From: StoryCorps
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Mary Morris remembers her husband, Thomas, one of two Washington D.C. postal workers who died from exposure to anthrax in October, 2001.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:16
StoryCorps Griot: George and Katie Robinson
From: StoryCorps
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George Robinson tells his daughter, Katie, about meeting his biological father after searching for more than 40 years.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: David Wilson
From: StoryCorps
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David Wilson, a plaintiff in the 2004 court decision legalizing same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, remembers the death of his first partner.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2010
  • Length: 02:27
StoryCorps Griot: Zenobbie Clark and Diana Carter
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Zenobbie Clark and her sister, Diana Carter, remember their brother, Samuel "Bubba" Hammond Jr., who was shot in the back and killed during the Ora...

Bought by KFOK-LP, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 3
More Than A Teacher
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A woman who teaches English in African refugee camps finds her students sometimes need more than an English lesson.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and KRUA


  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 2
Navigating in Nebraska
From: Lawrence Lanahan
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Two years ago, 166 Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans ended up in Omaha, Nebraska. Two years out, one man is trying hard--perhaps too hard...

Bought by KFAI and KUT-HD


  • Added: Dec 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 2
WWOZ Street Talk-The Slow Road to Recovery in New Orleans East
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
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Winn Dixie recently opened in New Orleans East and while the rest of the area is slow to rebuild, residents are at least able to make groceries. I ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2007
  • Length: 05:58
StoryCorps Griot: Rebia Mixon-Clay
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Rebia [REE-bah] Mixon-Clay remembers her late husband, Frank Mixon.

Bought by KFOK-LP and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 01, 2007
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
Watch Out
From: LA Lands
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This piece focuses on perceptions of South Rome, an historically black neighborhood in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2007
  • Length: 02:33
Victim's Families
From: Justin Levy
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Families of murder victims gather to offer each other support during the holiday season.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:32
StoryCorps Hurricane Katrina: DuPlantier
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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New Orleans police officer David Duplantier [doo-plan-tee-A] tells his wife, Melissa Eugene, about patrolling the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina.

Bought by KFOK-LP, KWMU, WMNF, KRCC-FM, KALW and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2006
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 8
The Mayor of Nichols
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A remembrance of a friend from junior high school who was murdered in 2000 by a chicago policeman

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUT


  • Added: Jun 28, 2005
  • Length: 34:33
  • Purchases: 2
The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: American Worker Series
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The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...

Bought by KCRW, Public Radio Remix, KALW, WNPR, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 25:12
  • Purchases: 13
A Danger to Self and Others
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Waiting it Out Series
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"A Danger to Self or Others" documents everyday life inside the Chicago Cook County Jail's Mental Health Division - the largest provider of mental ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and WYBC


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2