What does it mean to be an American? Is it defined by how you live, how you speak? Is it your

class, your struggle, your history? I was really proud of it like, yeah, all right, you know,

like stand up for your rights thing. Birmingham, Alabama was not a segregated city

and its inception legally, but it was a de facto segregated city.

The history of a peaceful transition of power in America is slowly going down the drain.

Welcome to American Storytelling, a new podcast channel from NPR.

We have created a collection of shows sourced from local newsrooms across the country,

each one making the case against a single American story. Instead, we hear America as a cacophony

of narratives, ideas, and points of view. It's a sound that swells with many voices.

We'll hear them in a show called Inheriting

about Asian-American and Pacific Islander families

shaped by war and immigration.

I afraid that when I die,

my soul can afire the Vietnam.

You'll hear them in a show called Road to Rickwood

about how Birmingham, Alabama's civil rights story

played out in America's oldest ballpark.

And a show called Extremely American about far-right groups trying to remake America in their absolutist image.

Where is America going, and who is leading its transformation?

Through these shows, our reporters are searching for those answers.

Bear witness to the dramatic sounds, range, and sweep of the American story.

Listen to the collection of podcasts by searching American

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