When Jeanne Manford’s gay son was badly beaten at a protest in 1972, she took action and founded an organization for parents of gays known today as PFLAG. Visit our episode webpage for background info...Show More
White parents in the 1960s fought to be part of a new, racially integrated school. Where’d they go?
The Weeksville Project: Cumberland Harrison - Part One. Written by J. Michael Kinsey Brooklyn in the mid 1800's is it's own city. Weeksville is a developing Free Black community and welcomes a new a...Show More
Between 1854 and 1929, 250,000 orphans - at peril in the dangerous, overcrowded streets of New York - were placed on trains and sent west to live with new families. A desperate solution to a desperate...Show More
Histories, mysteries, memories and families: it’s time to clamber up our ancestral trees. Author and genealogist Stephen Hanks -- who teaches genealogy classes in Portland, Oregeon and has contributed...Show More
Host David Robertson explores the mysterious death of his great-aunt Effie and discovers that record-keeping, especially when it involves the lives and deaths of Indigenous people, is patchy, at best.
Abdurrahim Rashada has seen a lot in his life. He served in the Navy during World War II. He survived and escaped the Jim Crow South. He worked in the GM factories of Michigan and saw their rise and ...Show More
In our Season Three finale episode, meet the wonderful media mogul and talk show host, Ohavia Phillips (Afro-Latina)! Perrine and Skye discuss a brief history of America's Next Top Model (sometimes...Show More
Even though it's a very early 2000s classic, Rileigh has always loved the fetch-est teen movie of all time: Mean Girls! Get in losers, we're going podcasting!
Generation Z is widely seen as a left-leaning, activist generation, but there's more to the story. Young conservatives are active, too. It's an election year, so let's talk politics.
On this episode of BackStory, Joanne, Brian and Ed talk about the role young people have played in American politics.
Frankenstein [1931] and Young Frankenstein are about mad scientists who have to come to terms with their creations, sure, but is it possible that movies about men who create monsters have daddy issues...Show More
We're re-sharing our episode with the fantastic author, chef, historian, and mensch Michael Twitty about bubbemeises. Call them old wives tales, call them folk wisdom, call them what you will, we're n...Show More
Sayre Quevedo grew up knowing just two members of his blood family, his mom and his brother. His father left before he was born and his mother lost touch with her family after leaving home as a teenag...Show More
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Sad but thoughtful story about meaning of family, and reasons for hiding it
"There were really two plans. One, was to become something -- somebody. Two, was to go back and see who was left."Support the show
People with at least four decades between them, share and compare their life experiences. Featuring a Nottinghamshire woman who came to the UK from Czechoslovakia with The Kindertransport; the two Cov...Show More
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Stories of life told between the generations we live with, from kids to adults to the greatest generation
Content warning: This episode contains a reference to suicide. Traveling to Taiwan with her mom, Kathy imagines the life she might have lived had her family stayed. — Kathy's mom previously appeared o...Show More
Mel Patching works at the Plantation Tea Room in Hong Kong and she shares the joys and benefits of drinking tea. We discuss how tea can teach us the art of being in the here and now and can help us to...Show More
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Honest conversations about being a first generation American.