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On the air nowAbout 16 minutes
A walk around the block after shiva, a firefighters' chaplain, a father with Alzheimer's, a mother grieving her son, and a dance for the ancestors. How neighbors grieve and remember.
On the air nowAbout 24 minutes
A Hopi farmer, Diné weavers and a painter, a Tohono O'odham bandleader, a Havasupai origin story and the San Carlos Apache culture center. The nations next door, in their own words.
On the air nowAbout 19 minutes
Veterans in their own words: Native veterans and a Gold Star father, a nurse calling home from Vietnam, sailors who earned their place, a general people asked not to work for, an officer welcomed at a sheik's table, and two veterans who waited a lifetime to marry.
On the air nowAbout 26 minutes
A posada at the door, Seders that ran past midnight, an imam on Eid, a Diwali reflection, Christmas in January, a Kwanzaa table, Christmas meals for homeless neighbors, camels on Three Kings Day and a Native family at Thanksgiving. What the holidays feel like next door.
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Real people on what they believe and where they come from. A good place to start.
On the airEvery voice here is a real neighbor, recorded telling their own story. Some come with animation, but the voices are all real.
Who you'll hear
Each show is about 15 to 25 minutes, one question heard from many neighbors. Pick by what's on your mind.
Who is my neighbor? What do we believe? What happens when someone dies?
About 25 min · On the air now
One old command, heard in many faiths. A Sikh, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Jew, a Buddhist, a pastor and a doctor who doesn't believe in God, each answering: who is my neighbor?
About 21 min · On the air now
A taiko drummer, an imam on Eid, a Havasupai origin story, a Sikh turban, a Black church pastor, a Hindu Diwali, Shabbat songs and a Hopi prayer for everyone. Faith, in the words of people who live it.
About 16 min · On the air now
A walk around the block after shiva, a firefighters' chaplain, a father with Alzheimer's, a mother grieving her son, and a dance for the ancestors. How neighbors grieve and remember.
Neighbors meeting, families raising kids, and growing up.
About 25 min · On the air now
Two men who knew each other only by their titles, a coffee invitation answered with a dictionary, a waiting room of veterans, five quinceañeras at once. What happens when people actually meet.
About 24 min · On the air now
Grandmothers, fathers, aunties and teachers, remembered by the people they shaped.
About 19 min · On the air now
A first hug at 40, a bat mitzvah, a teen asking when she can wear a hijab, a Caddo father, five quinceañeras at once, a bookmobile in the migrant camps and a temple band. Growing up, next door.
Heritage, home and service.
About 25 min · On the air now
The question many Americans hear all their lives, answered by the people who hear it.
About 24 min · On the air now
A Hopi farmer, Diné weavers and a painter, a Tohono O'odham bandleader, a Havasupai origin story and the San Carlos Apache culture center. The nations next door, in their own words.
About 19 min · On the air now
Veterans in their own words: Native veterans and a Gold Star father, a nurse calling home from Vietnam, sailors who earned their place, a general people asked not to work for, an officer welcomed at a sheik's table, and two veterans who waited a lifetime to marry.
Shows that come around with the calendar.
About 26 min · On the air now
A posada at the door, Seders that ran past midnight, an imam on Eid, a Diwali reflection, Christmas in January, a Kwanzaa table, Christmas meals for homeless neighbors, camels on Three Kings Day and a Native family at Thanksgiving. What the holidays feel like next door.
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Ethiopian American neighbors in Denver
Two Christmases, one heartNewHeard
Ethiopian American neighbors in Denver celebrate December 25 with everyone else, then come home to Genna, their own Christmas, on January 7.
· Leaders of the Taste of Ethiopia Heritage Foundation · 9NEWS (KUSA Denver)
A Japanese American Buddhist remembering her father's temple
Dancing in the street on 94thNewHeard
Her father founded the New York Buddhist Church in 1938. She remembers the first Obon dances in the street, lanterns strung across the block, and why they dance at all.
· Hoshina Seki · American Buddhist Study Center
An Ojibwe teacher and father
We practice at gratitudeNewHeard
For some Native families it's a day of mourning, for some a day of remembrance, for some a day of thanks. An Ojibwe teacher on what his own family does.
A group home for kids in foster care
Five quinceañeras at onceNewHeard
At a group home for kids in foster care in Austin, five girls get a quinceañera together: dresses, a tiara, a rose and a Bible with their names on it.
· Kelly Betz and the girls of The Settlement Home for Children · Austin PBS
Tohono O'odham women at the saguaro fruit harvest
The saguaro harvestNewHeard
To them, saguaros are people and family. They leave the fruit pods face up as a prayer for rain, and remember the grandmothers who taught them.
· Tohono O'odham women at the Bahidaj harvest · AZPM (Arizona Public Media)
A Diné silversmith teaching his son
The only time with my dadNewHeard
Silversmithing was the only time he got with his father. Now he teaches his son, and sings the protection songs his mother taught him.
· Alex Beeshligaii and his son Shane · AZPM (Arizona Public Media)
A Tohono O'odham bandleader
A $50 accordionNewHeard
She and her brother taught themselves waila music on an accordion their dad bought for $50. Now she tells young players: don't get off the stage.
· Gertie Lopez · AZPM (Arizona Public Media)
A Hopi carver
Carving katsina dollsNewHeard
A Hopi carver on gathering cottonwood root, the katsinam who live at the San Francisco Peaks, and the son who changed his life.
· Cory Ahownewa · AZPM (Arizona Public Media)
Two Diné sisters, fifth-generation weavers
Weaving the universeNewHeard
Spider Woman's gift, a loom that holds the universe, grandmother's prayers and songs, and a childhood rug sold for ten dollars and a bag of candy.
· Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete · AZPM (Arizona Public Media)
Muslim neighbors in Tucson
Ramadan in TucsonNewHeard
A fasting day in Tucson: a 3:57 a.m. start, a full workday and soccer camp, a shared iftar with friends, then making lunches at Casa María.
· Muslim families in Tucson · AZPM (Arizona Public Media)
A Black Baptist pastor turned farmer
The magic was in the gardenNewHeard
A Baltimore pastor kept visiting church members in the hospital for diet-related illness. So the church started growing its own food.
· Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III · PBS NewsHour, Brief But Spectacular
A Sikh American from San Antonio
How do we really love our neighbor?NewHeard
A Sikh kid in San Antonio rides bikes and plays video games with the neighbors. Then a soccer referee calls him a terrorist, and he decides how he'll answer next time.
· Simran Jeet Singh · PBS NewsHour, Brief But Spectacular
An African American family keeping Kwanzaa
Unity belongs in the centerNewHeard
A jeweler who carves kinaras from wood he finds in the neighborhood sets the Kwanzaa table: the mat, the candles, and the seven principles, one for each night.
· Babatunde Kenneth Graves and family and friends · Craft in America (PBS)
A Havasupai woman, former tribal council member
People of the blue-green watersNewHeard
The Havasupai name means people of the blue-green waters. A former council member shares the story of the little girl in a canoe who landed on Red Butte.
· Coleen Kaska · Grand Canyon Trust
A Hopi carver and sculptor
A prayer for everyoneNewHeard
A Hopi carver on why the Grand Canyon is the most sacred place he knows, and a way of life whose prayers are meant for everyone.
· Ed Honyestewa · Grand Canyon National Park
A Diné weaver
A lifeline in the woolNewHeard
A Diné weaver on what her people carried through the Long Walk, why weaving was a lifeline, and the grandmother who cheered her on.
· Florence Riggs · Grand Canyon National Park
A Diné painter
The land takes care of youNewHeard
A Diné painter remembers family farm days by the river near the Grand Canyon: corn, watermelon, cantaloupe, and a family who all worked at the canyon.
· Jerrel Singer · Grand Canyon National Park
A Hopi jeweler and archaeologist
A silent prayer for moistureNewHeard
A Hopi jeweler and river guide gathers cottonwood root for his village's carvers, and explains why every piece he makes is a quiet prayer for water.
· Lyle Balenquah · Grand Canyon National Park
Diné weavers, mother and daughter
Two weavers, one loomNewHeard
Two Diné weavers remember working side by side on a single loom, and the Grand Canyon visits behind their beadwork.
· Louise Nez and Laverine Greyeyes · Grand Canyon National Park
A Diné weaver and single mother
A loom that fit in the carNewHeard
Raised between two ways of life, a young single mother builds a small loom, drives home on weekends for her mother's help, and sells her first pillows.
· Rose Bighorse · Grand Canyon National Park
A Hindu American on Diwali
Choose light over darknessNewHeard
On the first day of Diwali, a Hindu American shares what the festival means to her: the divine in every living being, and choosing light in the way we treat one another.
· Suhag Shukla, executive director of the Hindu American Foundation · Hindu American Foundation
A Tibetan Buddhist monk and chaplain
From Tibet to CambridgeNewHeard
Born in Tibet in 1959, he grew up a refugee in India, became a monk, and now serves Buddhist students at Harvard.
· Lama Migmar Tseten · Harvard University
A Hindu monk and chaplain
The joy of letting goNewHeard
How a gift of books from his mother led him to a monastery at nineteen, and what his monastic name means.
· Swami Tyagananda · Harvard University
A San Carlos Apache culture keeper
A culture center on Highway 70NewHeard
An Apache greeting, the green peridot stone of Peridot, Arizona, and a culture center built so Apache kids and visitors alike can learn.
· Herb Stevens, director of the San Carlos Apache Cultural Center · Heard Museum
A Latter-day Saint grandson doing family history
Grandpa and his toothpicksNewHeard
A grandson digs into family history and finds the man behind the toothpicks: a piano player for nursing homes who spent years mapping his town's cemetery.
· Joe, a Latter-day Saint grandson · The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Latter-day Saint couples married decades
125 years of marriage adviceNewHeard
Couples married 25 to 51 years trade marriage advice, from big promises to 'buy two tubes of toothpaste.'
· Three Latter-day Saint couples · LDS Living
A Latter-day Saint mother grieving her son
It's okay to not be okayNewHeard
After her 12-year-old son died, people's comforting words made her angry. She talks about grief, doubt, and learning to be gentle with herself.
· Stefani · LDS Living
A Diné artist remembering her grandmothers
Weaving memoryNewHeard
Her weaver grandmother told her she was weaving thoughts and ideas. Years later she found both grandmothers' rugs in a museum, labeled 'Anonymous.'
· Melanie Yazzie · The Moth
A doctor who doesn't believe in God, praying with a grieving mom
Could you pray with me?NewHeard
A young doctor who doesn't believe in God is asked by a grieving Christian mother to pray with her. He says yes.
· Samuel Blackman · The Moth
A Japanese American woman remembering her childhood
A Buddhist temple school, then a country schoolNewHeard
At six she lived and studied at a Buddhist temple in Guadalupe, California. Later, a country-school teacher got everyone dancing.
· Alice Sumida · Discover Nikkei (Japanese American National Museum)
A Japanese American musician at his Buddhist temple
The temple drum that started a bandNewHeard
His temple had one drum for the summer Obon dance. One night he and his friends played it until dawn, and a taiko group was born.
· George Abe · Discover Nikkei (Japanese American National Museum)
A Japanese American man remembering his family's Christian faith
Church in each other's living roomsNewHeard
His immigrant farm family belonged to a small 'non-church' Christian group that worshipped in members' homes every Sunday night.
· James Hirabayashi · Discover Nikkei (Japanese American National Museum)
A boy and his Japanese-speaking grandmother
Talking all day with GrandmaNewHeard
She spoke Japanese, he spoke English, and neither understood the other. They talked all day anyway.
· Johnnie Morton · Discover Nikkei (Japanese American National Museum)
A man with a Black father and a Japanese American mother
The best of both culturesNewHeard
The only Black kid at his school, he never felt different, and in college he took classmates' questions as curiosity.
· Johnnie Morton · Discover Nikkei (Japanese American National Museum)
A Japanese American taiko drummer
Playing taiko as one familyNewHeard
A drummer on how playing together puts a Buddhist idea into practice: forgetting yourself and becoming one group.
· Johnny Mori · Discover Nikkei (Japanese American National Museum)
A man who is Chinese and white
The only mixed kid in the familyNewHeard
Among his Chinese relatives he was 'the white kid.' On his first day of kindergarten he was 'the only brown kid in the whole school.'
· Kip Fulbeck · Discover Nikkei (Japanese American National Museum)
A Japanese American woman on learning to hug her parents
Hugging my parents for the first timeNewHeard
Her immigrant parents never showed affection. After college she hugged them at the train station, and it was 'like hugging a piece of icicle.'
· Takayo Fischer · Discover Nikkei (Japanese American National Museum)
A Korean American veteran of World War II and Korea
A promise made before battleNewHeard
Before combat, his unit promised to make the country better if they came home. It's why he gave his life to community work.
· Col. Young O. Kim · Discover Nikkei (Japanese American National Museum)
Native American veterans
Why we serveNewHeard
Native veterans, and one father, on boot camp, family traditions of service, and what being a warrior means beyond the uniform.
· Native American veterans and their families · Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
A father and daughter who sing Las Posadas
Anybody can comeNewHeard
A father who has sung Las Posadas in Albuquerque for 47 years, and the daughter who grew up playing the angel, then Mary, on why the doors still open.
· Ray and Angela Pérez · New Mexico PBS, ¡COLORES!
A Deaf woman raised in a hearing family
Learning to speak by feeling the stairsNewHeard
Her first word, 'up,' came from feeling the vibrations as her mother carried her up and down the stairs.
· Caroline Clark · PBS NewsHour, Brief But Spectacular
A Muslim imam
Duplicate my joyNewHeard
An imam on missing Ramadan when it ends, moon bounces on Eid, and why every family gives so another family can celebrate too.
· Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, Falls Church, Virginia · Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (PBS)
A musician who is Potawatomi, Ojibwe and Chinese
Dumplings and the hoop danceNewHeard
She learned to make dumplings and to hoop dance, plays a Chinese zither, and found her voice in music from both sides of her family.
· Kayla Briet · PBS NewsHour, Brief But Spectacular
A Deaf woman from a three-generation Deaf family
Language is who we areNewHeard
On her Deaf storyteller grandmother, sign language as identity, and giving her adopted son his first language.
· Melissa Malzkuhn · PBS NewsHour, Brief But Spectacular
Muslim American musicians
Fasting on tourNewHeard
People think it's a hunger strike. A Muslim hip-hop group on fasting through Ramadan while touring, and a 20-hour fast chasing the sun on a flight home.
· Members of Native Deen, a Muslim American hip-hop group · Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (PBS)
Muslim neighbors and their guests in Nashville
Break bread togetherNewHeard
At a community iftar in Nashville, Muslim hosts and their guests break the fast together: 'It's really hard to deny someone their humanity when you sit across the table from them.'
· Guests at a community iftar in Nashville · Religions for Peace USA
A Sikh American who came back to his faith
Thirty years to put my turban back onNewHeard
He cut his hair in college so he wouldn't stand out. Years later he grew it back, and put his turban on again one month before September 11.
· Vishavjit Singh · SALDEF and Pearson
An Indian American son of immigrants
Keeping our parents' storyNewHeard
On multi-day family weddings, kids growing up 'even more American,' and why the immigrant parents' story needs retelling.
· Suchin Adhlakha · Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
A housekeeper and the man she cooks for
A Christmas meal that made him familyNewHeard
One Christmas she cooked for homeless neighbors in Charlotte. She kept cooking, and one of them tells her what it meant.
· Yelitza Castro and Willie Davis · StoryCorps
A World War II Army bugler
Taps across the valleyNewHeard
Days after the war ended, an 18-year-old bugler climbed a Belgian hill and played Taps for everyone who had died.
· Sgt. Harrison Wright · StoryCorps
An autistic boy and his mother
A boy's questions for his momNewHeard
A 12-year-old with Asperger's interviews his mom about animals, enemies and being his parent. Her answers are worth hearing.
· Joshua Littman and his mother, Sarah · StoryCorps
A Native woman who grew up in migrant farm camps
The bookmobileNewHeard
At twelve, in a migrant farm camp, a bookmobile lent her books about volcanoes and dinosaurs. She went on to spend thirty years in libraries.
· Storm Reyes and her son Jeremy Hagquist · StoryCorps
Two veterans who married late in life
Married at the veterans homeNewHeard
A World War II veteran, 100, and a Vietnam-era veteran, 72, on meeting, waiting, and finally marrying at the veterans home with hot dogs.
· John Banvard and Jerry Nadeau · StoryCorps
A young Army soldier from rural Georgia
A pound cake in a war zoneNewHeard
Homesick at a remote outpost in Afghanistan, a soldier got his grandmother's pound cake in the mail and shared it with his whole team.
· Roman Coley Davis · StoryCorps
A Sikh man on his turban
My turban is a crownNewHeard
Why he wears a turban: a crown that reminds him everyone is equal, and a promise to live by his values.
· Simran Jeet Singh · John Templeton Foundation
An Army nurse in Vietnam, later a major general
Hello Mother, overNewHeard
A 22-year-old Army nurse in Vietnam calls home twice in a year, once by radio: 'Hello Mother, over.'
· Donna Barbisch · Veterans Health Administration
A Navy veteran
I'm serving this country like youNewHeard
On the first boat crew to include women, a young sailor from New York runs aground, hears 'girls can't do it,' and asks for respect.
· Ginger Miller · Veterans Health Administration
An Army Reserve veteran
An honored guest at the feastNewHeard
An Army civil affairs officer in Iraq on restoring water and power, sitting down at a sheik's feast, and the conversations only she could have.
· Katrina Goldby · Veterans Health Administration
An Air Force flight nurse
Come with us to the VFWNewHeard
An Air Force flight nurse is hurt in an accident at 30,000 feet. At the VA, she's the only woman in the waiting room, until the other veterans invite her along.
· Linda Schwartz · Veterans Health Administration
A Navy veteran
If a man can do itNewHeard
Twenty-one years in the Navy, one of the first women aboard her ship, and a long push to let women serve on submarines.
· Vivian Greeno · Veterans Health Administration
A retired Air Force brigadier general
I'd work for you anyplaceNewHeard
All through her career, people asked not to work for a woman. A few months later, many of them asked to keep working for her.
· Wilma Vaught · Veterans Health Administration
An Air National Guard physician assistant
Please take themNewHeard
In an Iraq emergency room, families brought their wounded to the gate. And one young medic went back for a stranger everyone else had left.
· Zola Ferguson · Veterans Health Administration
A Puerto Rican kid from Upper Manhattan, grown up
Camels in my houseNewHeard
Every January 5, he and his dad gathered grass from the park for the Kings' camels. In the morning: presents, and hay all over the apartment.
· Lin-Manuel Miranda · The Washington Post
A Hindu man who grew up in India
Baseball is a religion, with a godNewHeard
As a boy he invented a god of baseball, and his team copied the rituals. Years later at Fenway Park, he saw big-leaguers doing the same.
· Ajay G. · WORLD Channel, Stories from the Stage
A Jewish man remembering his Italian Catholic neighbors in the Bronx
These are your friendsNewHeard
His Jewish mother baked for the Italian family next door and gardened with their grandfather, who spoke no English. At Christmas, he went up to see their tree.
· Howard Pressman · Yiddish Book Center, Wexler Oral History Project
A Jewish librarian remembering her father's shiva
Walking the soul around the blockNewHeard
After seven days of shiva for her father, her mother had the family walk his soul around the block, so he could go on to his world and they could go back to theirs.
· Molly Fogarty · Yiddish Book Center, Wexler Oral History Project
A Jewish woman who was among the first bat mitzvahs at her temple
The first girls at our templeNewHeard
In the early 1950s, her class was the first at her temple where girls had a bat mitzvah. Her grandparents couldn't come, so she brought it to them.
· Phyllis Herda · Yiddish Book Center, Wexler Oral History Project
A Jewish woman remembering her childhood
Saturday night bagelsNewHeard
When Shabbat ended on Saturday night, her father bought two dozen warm bagels, and the whole family shared them out.
· Sara Klompus · Yiddish Book Center, Wexler Oral History Project
A Jewish woman remembering her parents' Sabbath songs
Singing Shabbat songs at homeNewHeard
Her parents loved singing zmires, the Sabbath table songs. She sings a few bars and hopes the old melodies are kept alive.
· Miriam Oles · Yiddish Book Center, Wexler Oral History Project
A young Jewish woman remembering her bat mitzvah
My grandfather's smileNewHeard
Her grandfather, living with Alzheimer's, hardly ever showed expression anymore. During her bat mitzvah, he smiled at her for an hour and a half.
· Sophia Wise · Yiddish Book Center, Wexler Oral History Project
A Jewish man remembering family holidays
"That was us!" Passover, Hanukkah and ThanksgivingNewHeard
Seders that ran past midnight at his grandfather's, candles on Friday night, Yiddish at home, and an American Thanksgiving too.
· David Cherson · Yiddish Book Center, Wexler Oral History Project
A Muslim mother and daughter
When can I wear the hijab?NewHeard
A teenager asks her mom when she's ready to wear the hijab. Her mom's answer is about strength, not rules.
· Basma Alawee and her daughter Danna Aljubouri · StoryCorps
A neighbor who gets askedAudio · screen off OK
Feeling like a stranger in your own countryNewHeard
Ameya talks about feeling othered in her own country. Here's what "Where are you really from?" feels like from the other side.
· Ameya, in her own words · Where Are You REALLY From? (Global Voices)
A Hopi farmer
Corn that fits the landNewHeard
A Hopi farmer walks his dry fields and explains how his family grows corn on rain alone, the way Hopi farmers have for generations.
· Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, Hopi farmer · Arizona State Museum
An Oromo neighbor in Minnesota
The blue sweaterNewHeard
A woman who came to Minnesota from Ethiopia remembers saying goodbye to her mother, the sweater she was given, and what home means now.
· Najat Hamza · StoryCorps
A father living with Alzheimer's
A wonderful life, with Alzheimer'sNewHeard
A father living with Alzheimer's talks with his daughters about meeting their mom, raising them, and why he has no regrets.
· Ken Morganstern and his daughters Priya and Bhavani · StoryCorps
A Pakistani American father and son
My dad drives a cabNewHeard
A New York cab driver from Pakistan and his son, now a lawyer, on the years the boy was teased as "taxi boy," and what changed.
· Mohammad Ashraf Faridi and his son Muhammad Faridi · StoryCorps
A Mexican American neighbor
The one name they couldn't changeNewHeard
In the 1950s, teachers gave Mexican American kids English names. One boy's name, Facundo, just wouldn't change. A funny story about a serious thing.
· Ramon "Chunky" Sanchez · StoryCorps
A Mexican American Catholic family
A prayer and a rusty tromboneNewHeard
A farmworker's son from West Texas tells his wife about a prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe and the $50 trombone his mother paid off a little at a time.
· Gilbert Zermeño and Patricia Powers-Zermeño · StoryCorps
A Catholic priest
My friend, the firefighters' chaplainNewHeard
A priest remembers his friend Fr. Mychal Judge, the New York firefighters' chaplain, and the warmth he gave everyone he met.
· Fr. Michael Duffy · StoryCorps
A Dominican and Pakistani couple
A note on a napkinNewHeard
She spoke Spanish, he spoke Urdu and English. A couple remembers meeting at a New York hotel in 1989, and the coffee invitation she answered with a dictionary.
· Tabinda and Tariq Sheikh · StoryCorps
A Filipino American Catholic family
We are her workNewHeard
A son and his mother remember Lola, a Filipino grandmother who prayed late into the night, made hopia, and worked hard to raise her family.
· Kenneth Tan and his mother Olivia · StoryCorps
A neighbor living without short-term memory
Marking the distanceNewHeard
After brain surgery, Gweneviere lost her short-term memory. She and her boyfriend talk about how they get through each day together.
· Gweneviere Mann and Yasir Salem · StoryCorps
A Mexican American Catholic bishop
My grandmother taught the bishopNewHeard
A Catholic bishop remembers his 90-year-old grandmother, who loved funerals and taught him that dying is a privilege.
· Bishop Ricardo Ramirez · StoryCorps
Black church cousins
The Sunday school teacher we feared mostNewHeard
Two cousins from Bradenton, Florida laugh about Miss Devine, the strict, loving Sunday school teacher they feared more than their grandmother.
· James Ransom and Cherie Johnson, cousins · StoryCorps
A son raised by gay parents
My auntiesNewHeard
A man raised by gay parents in the 1970s and '80s remembers the men he called his aunties, who helped raise him.
· Stefan Lynch · StoryCorps
A Caddo father and son
Crying is strengthNewHeard
A Caddo man tells his son about his own father, a tribal leader who taught that crying is strength and that we look after one another.
· Thompson Williams and his son Kiamichi-tet · StoryCorps
A Chinese American grandmother
No more questions!NewHeard
A grandmother who grew up in China turned down every suitor, then became a store detective at Bloomingdale's. She'd rather you didn't ask too many questions.
· Kay Wang, with her son and granddaughter · StoryCorps
A Black church pastor
Rosa Parks was my Sunday school teacherNewHeard
A pastor remembers being a restless boy in church, and the Sunday school teacher who called him "Little Farrell": Rosa Parks.
· Rev. Farrell Duncombe · StoryCorps
Neighbors who disagree
Two neighbors on opposite sidesNewHeard
Two men in the same town knew each other only by their titles. Then they sat down and talked about their lives. Listen for "I've got a whole different view of you."
· Wane Hailes and Alton Russell of Columbus, Georgia · StoryCorps One Small Step
No voices for that mix yet.
A local newsroom explainsAnimated explainer
Why she's everywhere in TucsonNewHeard
Murals, candles, jackets: a two-minute, illustrated look at the 1531 story and why the Virgin of Guadalupe is part of Tucson's landscape.
The Diwali story, told in verseAnimated explainer
A Diwali storyNewHeard
Why lamps? The Ramayana in rhyme: Ram's exile, Sita's rescue, and a city lighting rows of lamps to welcome them home.
· Suhag Shukla, Hindu American Foundation · Hindu American Foundation
An Ethiopian Orthodox church in MinneapolisAnimated explainer
Christmas in JanuaryNewHeard
At an Ethiopian Orthodox church in Minneapolis, Christmas starts at 5 p.m. on January 6 and runs until the early morning, then everyone eats together.
· Minnesota PBS, with members of Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church · Minnesota PBS
A Catholic parish in ChandlerAnimated explainer
What's the deal with the ashes?NewHeard
An Arizona parish explains where the ashes come from, what 'you are dust' means, and why Jonah's story matters.
· Adrian Warpness, faith formation coordinator at St. Andrew the Apostle in Chandler, Arizona · St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, Chandler