StoryCorps

Series produced by StoryCorps

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

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


601 Pieces

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StoryCorps Griot: Marc Lawson and Karen Lawson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Anderson and Karen Lawson remember their father, engineer, Gerald Lawson and how his pioneering spirit influenced their childhood in 1970’s Silicon...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Myeshia Oates and Derek Bart
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Myeshia Oates and Derek Bart at their StoryCorps interview in Santa Clarita, CA on August 23, 2021.
Nearly 30 years after surviving a house fire as a kid, Myeshia Oates reunites with the Los Angeles County firefighter who saved her life, Derek Bart.

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Clark and Ron Gibson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Mary Clark came to StoryCorps with her friend, Ron Gibson, to talk about the complicated history of their relationship, and where they are now.

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative: La'Shanda Holmes and Jeanine Menze
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lieutenant Commander La’Shanda Holmes talks to her mentor, Commander Jeanine Menze, about being the first two Black female pilots in the United Sta...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:25
StoryCorps: Gina Olaya and Kellen Quinton
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Gina Olaya and Kellen Quinton remember their family member, Wilma Mankiller, and talk about how she made history when she became the first woman Ch...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Grete Bergman and Sarah Whalen-Lunn
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Grete Bergman and Sarah Whalen-Lunn at their StoryCorps interview in Anchorage, Alaska on August 14, 2018. , Credit: Camila Kerwin
Grete Bergman came to StoryCorps with her friend, Sarah Whalen, to talk about their experiences giving and receiving traditional Native markings.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:06
StoryCorps: Kelly Jeanne Grant and Janet Saia
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: From left to right, Kelly Jeanne Grant, Jennifer Arnold, and Janet Saia in New York in 2016. Courtesy of Janet Saia.
Kelly Jeanne Grant and Janet Saia remember their friend, Jennifer Arnold, the costume dresser for Broadway’s longest running show, Phantom of the O...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:41
StoryCorps: Bobby Huber and Fritzi Huber
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Siblings Fritzi and Bobby Huber remember the first time they celebrated Halloween and how their circus performing parents made it a night they neve...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:25
StoryCorps Historias: Juan Pablo Encinias and Isabel Encinias
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Miguel Encinias crouched beneath a F105 aircraft in 1967., Credit: Courtesy of the Encinias family
Isabel and Juan Pablo Encinias remember their father, Lt. Col. Miguel Encinias, a Hispanic combat pilot that served in the U.S. Air Force during Wo...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:15
StoryCorps MVI: Saleemah Muhammad and Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lieutenant Colonel Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad talks to his wife, Saleemah Muhammad, about becoming the first Muslim chaplain in the U.S. Armed Forces, ...

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  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Alexander Landau and Nina Askew
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Alexander Landau spoke with his friend, Nina Askew, about the support they’ve given each other after both experienced violent arrests from Colorado...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Johannah Owusu and Madzimoyo Owusu
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Johannah and Madzimoyo at their StoryCorps Recording on July 10th, 2010, in Fort Wayne, Indiana., Credit: Photo by Jorge Rios for StoryCorps.
Madzimoyo Owusu talks with her daughter, Johannah Owusu, about the memory of Madzimoyo’s grandmother.

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Leslye Huff and Mary Ostendorf
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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After facing a difficult coming out, one couple changed a mother’s heart

Bought by KALW, KRVS, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: DeFord Update
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Carolyn DeFord poses with the Missing poster for her mother, Leona Kinsey, who went missing October 1999, at her StoryCorps interview on January 24, 2019 in Renton, WA., Credit: By Dupe Oyebolu for StoryCorps.
Carolyn DeFord shares how she carries her mother’s disappearance and the stories that give her comfort and hope in her healing journey.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
StoryCorps: Mark Woodley and Jon Winkleman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: The Action Tours protest at the Macy’s 34th St Store in NYC on Nov 29, 1991., Credit: Meryl Levin
On Black Friday 1991, AIDS activists protested the department store's refusal to rehire a Santa who had HIV. The man who inspired the protest recon...

Bought by KALW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Suzanne and Jesus Valle
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jesus and Suzanne Valle reflect on their decision to take in children from families struggling with opioid addiction.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:52
StoryCorps Griot: Rowan Allen and Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay speaks with Rowan Allen, the EMT who saved her son’s life and inspired her to become a nurse.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:59
StoryCorps Griot: Necothia Bowens-Robinson and Temica Hunt
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Temica Hunt came to StoryCorps with her mother, Neocothia Bowens-Robinson, to talk about their family’s multi-generation love of roller skating.

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Historias: Luis Paulino and Angel Gonzalez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Luis Paulino and Angel Gonzalez talk about their shared experiences coming to the US from the Dominican Republic, and overcoming their challenges t...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Raynita Snipes Johnson and Gene Robinson
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: United States Army veteran Maceo Snipes. He served in World War II, and was murdered shortly after returning home from service., Credit: Courtest of Raynita Snipes Johnson.
Raynita Snipes Johnson remembers her great-uncle, US Army veteran Maceo Snipes, a Black man lynched for voting in 1946.

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1

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