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Featured story: America Vs. America
On March 1, 1954, four young Puerto Rican New Yorkers launched on attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Featured story: Love from Six Feet Apart (Revisited)
Checking in on two Hunker Down Diaries: the couple social distancing under the same roof. And a dispatch from the pizzeria.
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Featured story: Love at First Quarantine, The Sequel
Eight months ago, Gali and Joshua decided to quarantine together after their very first date. Today, we’re checking back in.
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Diaries We give people tape recorders and help them document their own lives in their own words
Josh’s Diaries: Tourette’s / First Kiss
Josh has Tourette’s Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary verbal outbursts.
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Melissa: 16 Years Later
As an 18 year old raised in the foster care system, Melissa took NPR listeners along when she gave birth to her son Issaiah. Sixteen years later she chronicles her life as a working single mother.
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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.
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Quarantined in the Pizzeria
COVID-19 has forced many families to improvise childcare. For some, it’s been like a four month long ‘bring your child to work’ day.
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The Dropped Wrench
Sometimes we make mistakes. They just don’t always happen in a nuclear missile silo. This story was produced in collaboration with This American Life.
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Soweto 1976
On June 16th, 1976, in South Africa, a group of school children in the black township of Soweto held a protest and changed the course of a nation.
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