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Featured story: Mandela: An Audio History
A five-part radio series documenting the struggle against apartheid.
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Featured story: Teen Contender
At 16, Claressa Shields is the youngest woman to compete for a spot on the first-ever women’s Olympic boxing team.
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Featured story: Teenage Diaries Series
Since 1996, Radio Diaries has given tape recorders to young people around the country and worked with them to produce the Teenage Diaries series for NPR.
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Diaries We give people tape recorders and help them document their own lives in their own words
Melissa’s Diaries: Teen Mom / Raising Issaiah
Melissa never meant to get pregnant. But now, after 12 years of living in the foster care system, she’s trying to build the family she never had.
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Going Home: Cristel’s Diary
At 15, Cristel attacked a classmate with a razor blade. After 3 years of incarceration, she’s being released.
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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
West Side Story: Michael Farmer and the Murder that Shocked New York
More than fifty years ago, Puerto Rican and black gang members in New York City fatally stabbed Michael Farmer, a white teenager.
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Identical Strangers
Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein were both born in New York City and adopted as infants. When they were 35-years-old, they met, and found they were “identical strangers.”
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