Arc Stories: August 2015 Edition

| August 27, 2015 

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Storyteller, Rickey Powell

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Stories that will make you laugh, make you cry, and perhaps both at the same time  —  hear what it was like growing up in the Civil Rights era; a woman risks her own dignity to get a chance at love; a guy raging against his own social awkwardness, and becoming a father to three children in just six months.

(Originally aired August 27, 2015 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.)

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