Episodes

  • How I Became Muslim

    How I Became Muslim
    Aug 15 2018
    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.
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    8 mins
  • "Someone I Could Be Myself With"

    "Someone I Could Be Myself With"
    Aug 8 2018
    Musician Spencer Barefield and his wife, artist Barbara Barefield, first met in the 1970s at a jazz club in the Cass Corridor neighborhood.
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    10 mins
  • Is this Detroit Institution Under-Rated?

    Is this Detroit Institution Under-Rated?
    Aug 1 2018
    This week's StoryCorps Detroit interviewees talk up their favorite Detroit gem.
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    10 mins
  • How is the Force Today?

    How is the Force Today?
    Jul 25 2018
    Detroit Institute of Arts Museum Director Salvador Salort-Pons interviews his friend and colleague, Security Guard Roderick Walker.
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    9 mins
  • Drawing Monsters on the Hudson Building

    Drawing Monsters on the Hudson Building
    Jul 18 2018
    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.
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    8 mins
  • What Happens When a Father is Deported?

    What Happens When a Father is Deported?
    Jul 11 2018
    A mother and daughter from Detroit discuss how the deportation of their family's patriarch still affects them almost 15 years later.
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    8 mins
  • Not Ready to Die

    Not Ready to Die
    Jul 4 2018
    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.
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    8 mins
  • "I Work Like a Woman"

    "I Work Like a Woman"
    Jun 27 2018
    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.
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    11 mins