You know the story of Rosa Parks. But have you heard of Claudette Colvin?

❤️Audio love letters from 1930s and 1940s ❤️

Laura Rothenberg spent most of her life knowing she was going to die young.

Back in the 1990s, Joe Richman gave tape recorders to a bunch of teenagers and asked them to report on their own lives. These stories became the series “Teenage Diaries.” 16 years later, in “Teenage Diaries Revisited,” we check back in with this group to

Thembi Ngubane carried a tape recorder from 2004 to 2005 to document her life. She was willing to speak out at a time when few South Africans were willing to say, “I have AIDS.”

For this episode, Radiotopia gave all of us in the network a prompt: if we were to create another show, any show, what would it be? Well, we’d make an obituary show.

On November 13, 1969, Spiro Agnew delivered the most famous speech ever given by a vice president. His message: the media is biased.

On July 28, 1945 an Army bomber pilot on a routine ferry mission found himself lost in the fog over Manhattan. A dictation machine in a nearby office happened to capture the sound of the plane as it hit the Empire State Building at the 79th floor.

Sometimes, we make mistakes. Human error. It happens all the time. It just doesn’t always happen in a nuclear missile silo.

The forgotten story of an uprising at an American military prison in Vietnam.