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StoryCorps Detroit

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StoryCorps seeks to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. StoryCorps Detroit features interviews recorded in the StoryCorps MobileBooth when it stopped in at the Detroit Institute of Arts in the summer of 2017. Sascha Raiyn is the host. Laura Herberg is the executive producer. StoryCorps Detroit is a production of WDET 101.9 FM and supported by the Detroit Historical Society.

  • 6 minutes 50 seconds
    How I Became Muslim
    Lehman Robinson converted to Islam when he was a teenager working at a secular Michigan summer camp. In this episode of StoryCorps Detroit, he tells his roommate what prompted him to do so.
    15 August 2018, 4:00 pm
  • 9 minutes
    "Someone I Could Be Myself With"
    Musician Spencer Barefield and his wife, artist Barbara Barefield, first met in the 1970s at a jazz club in the Cass Corridor neighborhood.
    8 August 2018, 4:00 pm
  • 8 minutes 55 seconds
    Is this Detroit Institution Under-Rated?
    This week's StoryCorps Detroit interviewees talk up their favorite Detroit gem.
    1 August 2018, 4:00 pm
  • 8 minutes 13 seconds
    How is the Force Today?
    Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Director Salvador Salort-Pons interviews his friend and colleague, Security Guard Roderick Walker.
    25 July 2018, 10:00 am
  • 6 minutes 37 seconds
    Drawing Monsters on the Hudson Building
    In the mid-1990s, a Detroit artist brightened up the boarded-over display windows of the Hudson Building with chalk drawings of monsters. His renderings were on the iconic structure when it was blown up.
    18 July 2018, 11:00 am
  • 6 minutes 50 seconds
    What Happens When a Father is Deported?
    A mother and daughter from Detroit discuss how the deportation of their family's patriarch still affects them almost 15 years later.
    11 July 2018, 10:00 am
  • 6 minutes 58 seconds
    Not Ready to Die
    Detroiter Roy Sims was diagnosed with a serious heart condition that doctors told him would be his demise. “It got to the point where I was placed under hospice care. That itself is quite difficult, because the idea there is to accept death, your imminent death.” recalls Sims.
    4 July 2018, 2:00 pm
  • 9 minutes 53 seconds
    "I Work Like a Woman"
    Detroiter Carlena Murdy tells her daughter Holly Gist-Richer about being one of the first machine repairwomen at a Detroit auto-parts factory in the 1970s.
    27 June 2018, 2:15 pm
  • 8 minutes 59 seconds
    "The city is like one big house"
    One new Detroiter tells of the dramatic welcome gift she received from a woman in her 90s, now her "best friend" here.
    23 August 2017, 7:26 pm
  • 13 minutes 28 seconds
    A Tale of Two Paper's Opinions
    Two Detroit editorial page editors tell each other how their backgrounds influenced their opposing opinions.
    16 August 2017, 7:09 pm
  • 13 minutes 1 second
    House, Techno, Raves and Voguing
    How electronic dance music provides space for the LGBT community and others seeking a safe place to express themselves.
    9 August 2017, 7:06 pm
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