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"My Gullah Memories"

"Southern Search"

Retired Judge, Delores Boyd (63) interviews her childhood friend and church member, Charles Everett (63) about their memories of their church, Mt. Zion AME in Montgomery, Alabama and how the guidance and support from the members, leaders and community helped...

One Small Step conversation partners Anita Randrianantoanina (27) and Ronald Washington (51) talk about their families, the Black Lives Matter movement, immigration, and American politics in the wake of the 2016 election.

"Remembering Orangeburg"

Renfroe Middle School student Lucy Yates (14) interviews former Renfroe Middle School Principal Cliff Chandler (75) about growing up under segregation, being one of the first Black teachers to work at Decatur High School, and integration of the Decatur City...

The history of the Mansfield family, specifically the Mansfield 8, and their experiences in Wake, VA in 1935 through the 1950's. The story of a woman trying to learn about the father she hardly knew by reconnecting with the place...

Friends Jerome Hughes (42) and Dwain Bridges (30) talk about how they and their families have struggled with their homosexuality and their HIV statuses.

Marlyn Tillman () tells Autumn Blanchard (31) about her experiences as a parent and education advocate.

Colleagues Venita Barnette, 53, and Erin Berglind, 31, talk about their love of teaching and the experiences they've had as teachers.

Susan Ross (62) interviews her friend, fellow Atlanta photographer, Jim Alexamber (78) about his experiences as the first Atlanta Jazz Festival photographer and his more than fifty years of photographing jazz artists.

StoryCorps Facilitator Kiplyn Primus [no age given] interviews Farrow Allen (80) and Ralph Baker (70). Both men are descendants of Black Americans affected by the Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906.

As part of the Reimagine Education Forum, Kelli shares a major event in her life that helped shape her passion for education.

Debra Taylor (59) tell her son Eric Taylor (28)

William Boik, 58, interviews his spouse Joyce Burnett, 37, about the book she wrote and her family background.

Sisters Hinde Muya and Amina Osman are interviewed by McKenzie Wren. The pair discuss the path that brought them to the United States from a refugee camp in Somalia. Hinde shares her views about the differences between Somali Bantu culture...

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.

Justeia Taylor, 15, interviews Valerie Jackson, 61, about her husband’s legacy (former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson), and his becoming Atlanta’s first Black mayor.

Crystal Frazier (55) talks to her friend and colleague Laurie Jones (40) about assessing deployers before and after going to West Africa.

Library Associate, Kayla Morris [no age given], has a conversation with interview participant, Colonel Jacqueline Caynon-Hall [no age given], about her experience as a nursing student from the 1962 class at Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. The conversation was...

Kiplyn Primus (57) has a conversation with a fellow pilgrim, Edna Sheridan (70), during their Year of Return Jamestown to Jamestown trip to Ghana in August, 2019. The women also talk about Edna's hometown of Huntsville, Alabama.

Harold W. Harris (81) talks with his niece, Tracy Harris (56), and his daughter, Donna Harris Hamilton (60), about his childhood, to include farm life and his first trip to California.

Paulyne Ngalame Ntuba (41) speaks with her coworker Yarkasah Peter Paye (46) about why they both felt called to be deployed in the Ebola response and about Paulyne's experiences during her deployment to Guinea.

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.