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Featured story: A Movement, a Massacre, and Mexico’s 50 Year Search for the Truth
The secret behind the 1968 massacre of students in Tlatelolco.
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Featured story: The Oddest Town in America
Gibsonton, Florida: Where the Sideshow Went to Retire
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Diaries We give people tape recorders and help them document their own lives in their own words
Frankie: 16 Years Later
As a teenager, Frankie recorded his life as a high school football star. 16 years later and with a baby on the way, he shares his struggle with drug addiction.
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Juan: 16 Years Later
16 years ago, Juan reported on his life as a recent Mexican immigrant living in poverty in Texas. In his new diary, Juan takes us on a tour of the life he has built since he first crossed the Rio Grande. It looks a lot like the typical American dream: a house, 2 cars, 3 kids—except for the fact he’s still living illegally in the U.S.
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Walter Backerman, Seltzer Man
Once there were thousands of seltzer men in New York City. Today, Walter Backerman is one of the last.
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The Last Man on the Mountain
In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.
ListenHistories Weaving together oral histories and archival tape to bring the past to life
Becoming Nelson Mandela
Mandela was a lawyer, freedom fighter, leader of the African National Congress, and finally, president.
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Ballad for Americans
How a ten minute operatic folk cantata managed to unite Democrats, Republicans and Communists.
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