The Story

As gas prices skyrocket, food prices follow. Melissa Hilliard can no longer make her costs and her income meet in the middle. Recently Melissa swallowed her pride and made her first trip to the local food bank. Also in this episode, on the anniversary of the attack on the USS Stark, Dick Gordon spoke with Tim Gable about his survival story. Tim was on the Stark when it was attacked, and if it wasn't for a life ring that was thrown from the deck Tim may not have survived the night in the water. Michael Tooker, a helicopter pilot stationed on the Stark, heard Tim on the radio and called to tell us his story.

Katherine Ellison raised a son with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Then she wrote a book about it.

We listen in as Payton Smith tries to make sense of her mother’s imprisonment; she asks her other family members when her mother will be home and what it will be like. This piece was produced by Chana Joffe-Walt. Photo: Transom.org

As Ghana marks its fiftieth year as an independent country, more and more African Americans continue to travel there, and in some instances, settle there.Saidiya Hartman was born with a different first name, Valarie.  She changed it in part to spite her parents, and also because she wanted to be and feel more African.  Yet when she traveled to Ghana years later, she found that she was an outsider to people she'd previously hoped would be like long-lost members of her family. Also in this episode: Marcus Mann has a parallel, but different story than Saidiya's.  He found his true home in Ghana.