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Makinde Adedapo (37) talks to his sister Naima Adedapo (35) about her experience growing up in Maywood, IL and experience as a contestant on American Idol.
Yvonne Orr-El (48) talks to her friend Kimberley Rudd (51) about the impact that her revolutionary parents have had on her life. She shares how she found the truth under layers of family secrets, how her activism looks, and the...
As a creative scholar she explored how her background informs her creative practice.
Fadil Lee (49) and his wife, Megan Lee (50), have a conversation about their lives, including reconnecting and marrying after having met in college 25 years earlier and adopting a daughter in the past year.
Colleagues and friends Terry Batey (46) and Sandra Shimon (50) talk about the successes and challenges of the equity work that they have taken on at the Chicago high school at which they work. They reflect on the lessons they've...
Sonya Hollins (55) interviews her mother Elvira Bernard [no age given] about Elvira’s decision to go back to school as single mother of four children in order to become a nurse. They also discuss hurdles Elvira faced in the nursing...
Nicole Bond (56) has a conversation with her classmate Alisha Williams (25) about their observations on the disparities in two areas in Chicago's South Side for their project "Justice in the City."
Old friends Vonnie McMillan (74) and George Moore (90) recall how they met and share thoughts on the legacies they hope to leave behind.
StoryCorps Facilitator Kiplyn Primus (62) has a conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Ogbar (54) about his book, America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy.
Tiffany Baker (48) and her former mentor, Terri Treiman (66), talk about their previous StoryCorps interview, Terri’s career in social work, and Tiffany’s career helping youth in the foster system.
Curtis Young (81) and his son, Mike Strautmanis (50), talk about their relationship, which had been distant earlier in Mike's life but came to develop and deepen decades later.
Shana [No Name Given] (43) interviews her friend Angela Effinger [no age given] about her experiences as a nurse's assistant.
Carlo B (46) talks to his daughter Isabella B (21) about his life, family, and his work as an operating room nurse.
Tojanai Peterson-Colon (18) talks to her new acquaintance Nancy Zook (55) about graduating from high school and her plans for the future.
Friends Jeanette "Mz. Beatrice" Taylor (48) and Angela Ross (40) discuss their work in response to a local school closing and the need for changes within schooling systems.
Friends and collaborators, Rhonda Chandler (49), Ingrid Parker-Hill (49), and Tia Sirmans (50) discuss their involvement with Lovin’ The Skin I’m In, an organization aimed at empowering and uplifting girls of color in Northeast Wisconsin.
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.
Vivian Moore (60) talks with her significant other, Johnny Gilliam (62), about her career as a nurse and about working in hospice care.
Freida Curry (71) talks to her daughter Jordan Curry (32) about her childhood, her family, her career, travel, motherhood, and what she is most proud of.
Makinde Adedapo (37) talks to his sister, Aryorinde Iranlowo-Ifatunji (23) about growing up, moving to New York, and her relationship to spirituality.
Sharon Moore (53) asks her father Nathaniel Moore (91) to recall his childhood, moving to Chicago, and his experience raising a family.
Dorris Calhoun (73) talks to her friend Jonathan Kelley (48) about her memories of growing up in the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, being a choir director at Stone Temple Baptist Church, her education, her work as a medical transcriptionist,...