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Robert "Bob" Rolfe (72) and Nancy Rodrigues (71) discuss misinformation, the media, voting rights, and political polarization.

Laura Peterson (52) talks with her sorority sister Jill Hopkins (64) about her life and her experiences in the Delta Gamma sorority.

Alex Odom [no age given] and his wife Jessica Odom [no age given] discuss life in rural Alabama.

Julie Thomspon (54) speaks with her son Tanner Thompson (23) about raising a child with disabilities and ways that involvement in the First Light Community has changed their family for the better.

Husband and wife Stephen DeAngelo (41) and Evelyn DeAngelo (41) discuss Evelyn's upbringing in Louisiana and how the two met and decided to marry.

New friends Gabby Jones (23) and Marcus Muhich (61) get to know each other through talking about food, family, and travel.

Journee Murry (16) interviews her grandmother Gwendolyn Mason (79) about her life.

One Small Step partners Sanona Williams (53) and Jenny Clark (47) discuss presumptions people make about them based on race and location, the pressure to choose a political side, seeing versus not seeing race, parenting children with versus without special...

Sabra Booth (57) discusses her family history with a focus on her mother, Barbara Booth. Her family fought in World War II, participated in the creation of the Manhattan Project, and lived in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which was a military...

Friends and colleagues Alison Benders (65) and Margaret [No Name Given] (65) talk about their Catholic upbringings and their experiences with religion in adulthood. They reflect on what pilgrimage, faith, and community have meant to them.

Karen Blizzard (60) interviews her aunt Polly Prickett (85) about her life and family in, and around, Birmingham and Sylacauga, Alabama.

One Small Step conversation partners Catherine Montalbo (60) and Linda Frost (59) talk about growing up in liberal and conservative households, changing their political beliefs, relocating to the south, and gender identity issues.

Marc Paprzyca (69) and spouse Sylvia Paprzyca (67) talk about life in Chicago and retiring to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. They talked about leaving the hustle and bustle of the city life and returning to a resort town.

Harriet Weber (65) interviews her friend, Pete Romano (72), about Quincy Farm Chemicals, his family's fertilizer business, as well as about his crop sign project.

Mary Crist (40) shares a conversation with her father, Jim Crist (66), about his childhood, his relationship with her mother, and the concerts that each of them have enjoyed.

Friends Norman Hatter (79) and Steven McCutchan (80) discuss meeting civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr., and Stokely Carmichael. They talk about guiding their churches through racism and racial equity as they both have served different types of Christian...

Dr. Fran Close (54) interviews her good friend and colleague Dr. C. Perry Brown (74) about his journey toward becoming an epidemiologist, his work as a researcher and college professor, and the relationships that both keep him grounded and make...

One Small Step partners Anna Catherine Grady (24) and Carol Clarke (58) discuss jazz history and environmental justice in Birmingham, AL. They also discuss Rwanda, the COVID-19 pandemic, and how their family members have shaped them.

One Small Step conversation partners Ansley Powell (20) and Anne Turner-Henson (67) discuss public health issues, COVID-19 vaccine rates, socialized medicine, and immigration.

One Small Step conversation partners Mohamed Shoreibah (47) and Lynda Wilson (72) discuss immigration, political misinformation, Birmingham's history of racism and political struggle, and their hopes for its future.

One Small Step conversation partners Diane Tucker (68) and Moya Nordlund (67) discuss politics, wealth redistribution, education, mentorship, and the arts.

One Small Step partners, Emily Rushing (70) and Fred Bennett (76) discuss the changing landscape of news, media literacy, social issues, and being Christians who value diversity and racial reconciliation.

One Small Step participants Nancy Mosley [no age given] and Emily Bosch [no age given] discuss their upbringing, how they approach the present day political landscape, and how they both like living in Birmingham.

Crystle Ryland [no age given] speaks with her mother Idell Henderson [no age given] about her life growing up in Jim Crow Birmingham, AL.

Strangers Michael Gonzales (25) and Taylor James Johnson (31) in San Antonio, Texas discuss sharing their stark political/religious/sexual identity changes to the public and how the public's reception of their beliefs influenced them.