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Reggie Smith (57) interviews Shyronn Jones (35) about her childhood in Brooklyn, NY. She remembers starting to take care of herself at age 16 and reflects on being a single mother with HIV.

"Life Story of Sam Wilson, Jr."

Sabrina Grossman (34) interviews her friend, Demethris Hester (49), about his most notable memories as a client of Back on My Feet, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that uses running to help those experiencing homelessness to become self-sufficient.

Zakiya Johnson Lord (35) and Chen Foley (36) talk about their shared identity of being black, gay native Bermudians. They talk about their pride in their heritage and their frustration in the slowness of evolution of rights in Bermuda. They...

StoryCorps Facilitator Kiplyn Primus [no age given] talks with sisters Patricia Walker Bearden [no age given] and Yolanda Walker Simmons (67) about their family's connection to the Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906.

Brandi J. Whitney (45) talks with her conversation partner, Brenda Ford (51), about see Love in new ways this Valentine's Day 2022 as she mourns the recent deaths of her father, grandmother and husband, Michael.

Sharifah Parks Al-Amin (48) talks with her mother, Carolyne J Parks (78), about their relationship.

Atlanta Business League colleagues Erica Qualls-Battey (58) and Kiplyn Primus (61) have a conversation about Erica's career with Marriott Hotels.

Brenda Ford (51) interviews conversation partner Victor-Alan Weeks (25) about being a young Black man native to Atlanta, Georgia who became a global multimedia specialist and hemp farmer.

Kiplyn Primus (60) interviews her friend and mentor Sonia Booker (51) about Sonia's life, focusing on her career in business and real estate as well as her experiences in the Atlanta Business League.

Harold Raines (72) speaks to his neighbors, mother and son Yvette Russell (53) and Hunter Russell-Horton (17) about life in Harlem. They reflect on the their memories of the neighborhood, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and their hopes for...

Fellow Atlanta Business League members, Kiplyn Primus (61) and T. "Dallas" Smith (60), have a conversation about Dallas' youth in Atlanta, Georgia, and how he came to have a lucrative career in commercial real estate.

Acquaintances Lillie Ann Thomas (49), Evangeline Anderson (47), and Robin Deveaux (55) talk about being apart of the sickle cell community in Atlanta, and their most notable experiences raising (and losing) children with sickle cell.

Longtime friends Earlene McKee (63) and Laura James (63) talk with new friend Doris Smith (88) about her life, her faith, and her commitment to helping others.

Susan Ross (61) interviews her friend, Alisa Perdue (47), about her favorite memories as a group member of Sistagraphy, an African American female photography social group.

Co-workers Jamal Lee, 24, and Nicole Shepard, 30, talk about their early backgrounds, what go them into education, and the passions that fuel their lives.

Friends Wendell "Marcus" Vassell (44) and Justin Deadwyler (37) talk about meeting as students of Georgia Institute of Technology's Executive MBA Program.

Fellow teachers and friends Sonya Denise Heard (52) and Yolanda Osborne (52) talk about the people who have influenced their lives as well as their experiences as teachers of young children, focusing part of their conversation on their experiences with...

Colleagues and friends Pamela Ching (61) and Wiedad "Roodly" Archer (52) have a conversation about their careers, beginning as nutritionists and moving into public health, including stories about their time working in various foreign countries and lessons they learned from...

Raina Moseley (17), a rising senior at Atlanta's Pace Academy, talks with history teacher, Patrice Wright-Lewis (56), about race and racism.

Kiplyn Primus (60) interviews her friend and colleague Daryll Harris Griffin (72) about Daryll's life, focusing on her family, her business career, and her experiences as a member of the Atlanta Business League.

Kiplyn Primus (60) talks with friend and fellow Atlanta Business League member Michael Russell (57) about growing up in the Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, and going into the family business.

Cousins Yvette Chestang (56) and Letitia Mabien (49) discuss their family's involvement in Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile and their perspectives on keeping traditions and the deep sense of community in their family alive.

Kiplyn Primus (61) interviews her colleague Tara Brown (47) about Tara's life, her business, and her association with the Atlanta Business League.

Terence Lester (36) and his friend and mentor, Jeff Hilimire (43) talk about their non-profit work in Atlanta, Georgia, how they met, and the ways in which they inspire each other through their work.