Radio Diaries
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The Drum Also Waltzes
At the age of 16, he played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He went on to make landmark recordings with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. He’s considered one of ... Jan 10, 2024
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Live at WNYC
We bring you a lot of stories each year, but we don’t often get to share the work behind them. We recently held an event at WNYC’s The Greene Space in New York City, where our subject... Dec 19, 2023
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The Man on the President's Limo
Today marks 60 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There are many photos from that day in 1963, but one image in particular caught people’s attention, spreadin... Nov 22, 2023
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The Unmarked Graveyard: LaMont Dottin
Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local police precinct to try to report hi... Nov 21, 2023
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Hisako Hasegawa
The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a few dozen people who call the Belv... Nov 9, 2023
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Cesar Irizarry
Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged from his family for decades. But ear... Nov 2, 2023
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themselves. For a few years, those novels p... Oct 26, 2023
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Documenting an Invisible Island
For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in large part to a woman named Melinda Hu... Oct 19, 2023
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Angel Garcia
When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had had a teenage romance with a guy name... Oct 12, 2023
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The Unmarked Graveyard: Noah Creshevsky
When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David were faced with another decision: wh... Oct 5, 2023
