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Featured story: Thembi’s AIDS Diary
Thembi Ngubane carried a tape recorder from 2004 to 2005 to document her life. She was willing to speak out at a time when very few South Africans were willing to say, “I have AIDS.” We’re revisiting her story on the podcast.
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Featured story: Remembering Olivia Hooker
Olivia Hooker was the last surviving witness to the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
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Featured story: A Guitar, A Cello, and The Day That Changed Music
November 23, 1936, was a very good day for recorded music.
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Diaries We give people tape recorders and help them document their own lives in their own words
My So-Called Lungs
Laura Rothenberg tried to live a normal life, with lungs that betrayed her and the awareness that she might not live to see her 30th birthday.
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Josh: 16 Years Later
In high school, Josh documented his life with Tourette’s Syndrome. 16 years later, Josh records a new diary about trying to live a normal adult life with a brain that often betrays him.
ListenPortraits Extraordinary stories from ordinary places
The Last Man on the Mountain
In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.
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Selma Koch, Bra Saleswoman
94-year old Selma Koch runs the Town Shop, one of New York’s last old-style bra fitting shops.
ListenHistories Exploring the past to tell the History of Now.
The Chamizal: A Town Between Borders
When the U.S. and Mexico chose the Rio Grande as an international border, they didn’t expect the river to move.
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Becoming Nelson Mandela
Mandela was a lawyer, freedom fighter, leader of the African National Congress, and finally, president.
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