Stories

The struggle against apartheid, told through the voice of Nelson Mandela, and those who fought with him, and against him. Featuring rare...

For over 30 years, commuters on NYC's subways and buses were greeted by posters of Miss Subways: beauty queens of one of the nation's first integrated beauty contests.

The story of what happens when, instead of people crossing the border, the border crosses the people.

In 1918, millions of WWI veterans returned to the U.S. to a cruel surprise: their cash bonus wouldn't be paid out until 1945. So, a group of Oregon veterans decided to go to Washington, D.C. to demand their money. They called themselves the "Bonus Army."

In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. 40 years later, we followed up to find out what happened to them.

In the 1960s, the U.S. was losing in the space race to the Soviet Union. So, it decided to do something no country had done: send the first Black person to space.

On August 6, 1930, two African-American teenagers were charged with the murder of a factory worker, and the rape of his wife. A mob lynched them that evening. But a third Black teen was supposed to die that day. This is his story.

The secret WWII program to arrest Latin Americans and exchange them for American prisoners of war.

In 1963, at least 15 Black girls were imprisoned in the Leesburg Stockade for 45 days.

In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mountaintop removal mining in a corner of West Virginia called Pigeonroost Hollow. There used to be dozens...

Laura has cystic fibrosis and has spent most of her life knowing she was going to die young.

Our four-part series documenting life inside the criminal justice system.

Weasel was 26-year-old when he was deported to El Salvador, which he has not seen since the age of five.

Stories of people thrown into unusual circumstances during the COVID-19 pandemic, produced in collaboration with NPR. Episode 1:...

Audio diaries of life in a retirement home—the last place.

Five teenagers carried tape recorders to document their lives in this award-winning audio series.

For over a year, Thembi documented her life living with AIDS in South Africa.

Hart Island, an uninhabited strip of land off the Bronx, is America’s largest public cemetery, sometimes known as a “potter’s field.”...

Sofia's mother was living in Kharkiv when war broke out. Now she is faced with a difficult choice.

Ground-breaking, but controversial broadcasters who each used the microphone in different ways: one to warn, one to rile, one to preach.