StoryCorps

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StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.

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StoryCorps 
583 Pieces

Every day at StoryCorps booths across the country, ordinary people share extraordinary stories with friends and loved ones.

Pieces

StoryCorps American Pathways: Magda Sakaan and Walid Sakaan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Ten years after the start of the Syrian civil war, father and daughter, Walid and Magda Sakaan, remember their lives in Syria.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps American Pathways and Griot: Tasreen Khamisa and Tony Hicks
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In 1995, 14-year-old Tony Hicks shot and killed 20-year old Tariq Khamisa in a gang-related robbery. 20 years later, Tariq's older sister, Tasreen,...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps American Pathways and Griot: Tony Hicks and Azim Khamisa
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In 1995, 14-year-old Tony Hicks shot and killed 20-year old Tariq Khamisa in a gang-related robbery. While Tariq’s father, Azim, was grieving his s...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps American Pathways: Namira Islam Anani and Omar Anani
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Omar and Namira Islam Anani reflect on what it was like to navigate a COVID-19 diagnosis as newlyweds.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:52
StoryCorps Griot: Jada Salter and William Salter
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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84-year-old musician William Salter tells his granddaughter, Jada, how he first found his sound, and what their relationship means to him.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Historias: Jessica Valdivia and Jorge Valdivia
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jorge and Jessica Valdivia remember their brother, Mauricio, who passed away from COVID-19.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:40
StoryCorps: Camila Martinez, Corina Ulloa, Isabela Martinez, and Brenda Ulloa Martinez
From: StoryCorps
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Two sisters, Corina Ulloa and Brenda Ulloa Martinez, came to StoryCorps with Brenda’s daughters, Camila and Isabela Martinez, to talk about growing...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
StoryCorps: Ngoc Nguyen and Christopher Myers
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Ngoc Nguyen came to StoryCorps with her GED instructor Chris Myers to talk about her childhood and the impact his teaching has had on her.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Clara Jean Ester
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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72-year-old Clara Jean Ester remembers bearing witness to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech in 1968, and rushing to his side the next day w...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Jeffrey Sherman
From: StoryCorps
Caption: A 5-year-old Jeffrey Sherman is pictured with his father, songwriter Robert Sherman, in the early 1960s., Credit: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sherman.
Jeffrey Sherman sits down with his wife, Wendy Liebman, to remember his father, music composer Robert B. Sherman, and how getting a vaccine as a ch...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1

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People who work with StoryCorps

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Michael Garofalo (Admin)
Producer
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Jud Esty-Kendall (Admin)
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Joanna DuFour (Admin)