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Three stories conceived and made by citizen storytellers Jamila Davenport, Roberto Nava, and Debby Bussel explore race, class, and gentrification in Durham, North Carolina.
Part of Storymakers: Durham, a project of the national Localore: #FindingAmerica initiative.
Music by Lucas Biewen and Blue Dot Sessions.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesCan stories help to bring a community together? How about radio stories, conceived and made by citizen storytellers? Introducing Storymakers: Durham, a project of the national Localore: #FindingAmerica initiative.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesThe word “Hiroshima” may bring to mind a black-and-white image of a mushroom cloud. It’s easy to forget that it’s an actual city with a million people and a popular baseball team. How did the cataclysm of 1945 reverberate in the place where it happened?
Hearing Hiroshima is a production of Minnesota Public Radio, from American Public Media.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIt can take a lifetime to make sense of a parent, or to get over him. Or, just maybe, to come to terms. By Ruxandra Guidi.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesThe people we love have power—the power to upend our lives, or at least to make things interesting. Two stories of surprises, curveballs thrown by family members. Pieces by Qathi Hart and John Rash.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesA quartet of very short works exploring memory – most inspired by Third Coast Audio Festival ShortDoc Challenges. Pieces by Ligaiya Romero, Madeline Miller, Nan Pincus, and John Biewen.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesA punk farmer. A tale of rogue chickens on the loose in the city. A pair of refreshing takes on the whole Food thing, in and around Durham, NC. Pieces by Emily Hilliard and Joseph Decosimo.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesA refugee from Bosnia. An NYC-born survivor who grew up poor, black, Muslim, and gay. And how one, and her music, saved the other.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesPeople in two communities – one in Alaska, one in New York State – wrestle with questions about energy and the environment. We listen in on democracy close to home. Stories by John Biewen and Jon Miller, edited by Deb George.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesA South Sudanese refugee and the music that cuts his heart to pieces. Thelonious Monk’s North Carolina roots. Music and home. Pieces by Nusaibah Kofar-Naisa and John Biewen.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesIt happens. A happy, healthy young person suddenly gets a grave diagnosis. What does not usually happen: The patient rolls tape. By Ibby Caputo.
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