StoryCorps Shorts: Then and Now
Sisters Janaki Symon and Melissa Wilbur grew up in New York and settled across the country from each other as adults. The StoryCorps MobileBooth was in town when Melissa was visiting her sister, and Janaki invited her to sit down and talk about their relationship.
Extras + Features
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Trailer | I Didn't See You There
S35 E3514 - 1m 22s
Jeremy Sicile-Kira uses painting to transcend his disability and communicate his dreams to others.
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Trailer | Let the Little Light Shine
S35 E3513 - 1m 58s
National Teachers Academy (NTA) is considered a beacon for Black children: a top-ranked, high-performing elementary school in the fastest growing neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. As the neighborhood gentrifies, a wealthy parents’ group seeks to close NTA and replace it with a high school campus. How will NTA's community fight to save their beloved institution?
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Trailer | Midwives
S35 E3512 - 1m 59s
Midwives chronicles two women who run a makeshift medical clinic in a region torn apart by violent ethnic divisions. Hla, the owner, is a Buddhist in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim and an apprentice. Encouraged and challenged by Hla, Nyo Nyo is determined to become a steady health care provider for her people.
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Trailer | Accepted
S35 E10 - 1m 45s
Accepted follows four high school students at T.M. Landry, a prep school in Louisiana known for its viral videos of seniors being accepted to the Ivy Leagues, and sending 100% of its graduates to college. But an explosive NY Times article exposes the controversial methods of its dynamic founder -- and the fiction of higher education's promise.
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Trailer | The Last Out
S35 E9 - 2m 9s
Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their dreams of playing in the United States. At the shadowy nexus of the migrant trail and pro sports, The Last Out chronicles their difficult journey, from multi-step immigration obstacles and learning English to the broken promises and dubious motives of agents.
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Trailer | Delikado
S35 E8 - 3m 11s
Palawan is a tropical island paradise and one of Asia's tourist hotspots. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders struggling to protect its spectacular forests and seas, it is a battlefield. Delikado follows three land defenders as they brave violence, death threats and murder while trying to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ last ecological frontier.
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Trailer | Faya Dayi
S35 E6 - 2m 7s
A hypnotic immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, a place where one commodity – khat, a euphoria-inducing plant – holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life, Faya Dayi captures intimate moments in the lives of everyone from the harvesters of the crop to people lost in its narcotic haze to a desperate but determined younger generation searching for an escape from political strife.
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Trailer | President
S35 E5 - 2m 24s
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 Zimbabwean general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the opposition. How will they interpret democracy in a post-Mugabe era – in discourse and in practice?
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Trailer | He's My Brother
S35 E4 - 1m 34s
Christine's brother Peter experiences his world through touch, smell, and taste. Now 30 years old, Peter's family is having trouble finding the proper care for his multiple disabilities. Told through Christine's eyes, He's My Brother explores how the family works to assure him a dignified life once the parents are gone -- and Christine's uncertainties about one day becoming his primary caregiver.
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Trailer | Winter's Yearning
S35 E3 - 2m 27s
In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. With the promise of economic renewal, Winter's Yearning follows the lives of the area’s loyal aging population and its stymied youth. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first step towards sovereignty.
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Trailer | Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
S35 E2 - 2m
Three communities intersect, sharing histories of forced removal – Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the Manzanar WWII concentration camp, Native Americans who were forced from these lands, and ranchers turned environmentalists, who were bought out by the LA Department of Water and Power. How do they come together in the present moment to defend their land and water from Los Angeles?
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Trailer | Wuhan Wuhan
S35 E1 - 2m
With unprecedented access in a period of pandemic lockdown, Wuhan Wuhan documents February and March 2020 in Wuhan where the coronavirus was first discovered. Going beyond the statistics and salacious headlines, frontline medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens put a human face on the early days of the mysterious virus as they grapple with an invisible, deadly killer.
Schedule
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Uýra: The Rising Forest
Saturday
Apr 20
1 Hour
Uýra shares ancestral knowledge with Indigenous youth in the Amazon, confronting historical racism, transphobia and environmental destruction. -
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Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
Saturday
Apr 20
1 Hour
Native American, Japanese American and rancher communities form an alliance to defend their land and water from Los Angeles. -
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Delikado
Saturday
Apr 20
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
Sunday
Apr 21
1 Hour
Native American, Japanese American and rancher communities form an alliance to defend their land and water from Los Angeles. -
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Delikado
Sunday
Apr 21
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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Delikado
Monday
Apr 22
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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Uýra: The Rising Forest
Monday
Apr 22
1 Hour
Uýra shares ancestral knowledge with Indigenous youth in the Amazon, confronting historical racism, transphobia and environmental destruction. -
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Delikado
Wednesday
Apr 24
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan. -
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Winter's Yearning
Thursday
Apr 25
1 Hour
Greenland reckons with its Danish colonial past and the promised future by a U.S. company building a smelting plant, which could serve as the nation's first steps toward economic renewal and political sovereignty. -
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Fire Through Dry Grass
Saturday
Apr 27
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Nursing home residents use poetry and art to describe the danger and imprisonment they feel during COVID-19's lockdown. -
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Fire Through Dry Grass
Sunday
Apr 28
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Nursing home residents use poetry and art to describe the danger and imprisonment they feel during COVID-19's lockdown. -
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Liquor Store Dreams
Wednesday
May 1
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles. -
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Liquor Store Dreams
Thursday
May 2
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles. -
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Liquor Store Dreams
Thursday
May 2
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles. -
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Wuhan Wuhan
Thursday
May 2
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Exploring the early days of COVID-19 when Chinese citizens and frontline health care workers in Wuhan grappled with a mysterious virus. -
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Liquor Store Dreams
Saturday
May 4
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconcile their dreams with those of their immigrant parents as they confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles.
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