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Weena (34) interviews her grandparents, Margaret (85) and John (88), about how they grew up and how they met at NASA.

Rojelio Mondragon Garcia (25) and Paul Karrer (55) talk about Rojelio’s 11-year incarceration and their relationship as student and teacher.

A man interviews his mother in law about her religious parents and her five children.

Chika Offurum (48) shares with her colleague Chapin Montague (23) her experience advocating for a higher quality of education as a student and child of immigrant parents from Nigeria.

Kim interviews neighbor (and new friend) Ruth about her mother and labor and housing rights involvement. Ruth also talks about evacuating Battery Park on 9/11.

Sisters, Linda Watley Norris (73) and Pearl Watley Mitchell (78), describe what it was like growing up in Columbus, GA, reminisce about the fun times they had as children, and remember family members who have passed away.

Michelle Souza (58) talks to her friend Laura Richarz (58) about her mother Blase Camacho Souza.

Nadine (Nai’a) Newlight (66) talks with facilitator Eloise Melzer (30) about growing up in New York City, September 11, and her mentors in life.

Thomas R. Leach tells son Carlyle Leach of the diversity of his Brooklyn neighborhood as a child, discusses the place of African Americans in the sports world, and shares his predictions for the United States in this (2008) “Year of...

Johnda interviews her partner, Ronda, about her life accomplishments, cancer, and expectations for the future.

Yvette J. Benjamin (62) tells her friend, Dr. Linda Degutis (55), of her career path in medicine and describes her life in semi-retirement.

Leilani Pascale (44) interviews her father, Connie Pascale (72), about his childhood, his relationship with Leilani's mother, and his memories of raising Leilani and her siblings.

Mary “Marchie” Ethel Luther (87) talks with her great nieces Deanna Fletcher (24) and Andrea Fletcher (22) about her Prussian heritage and work as a cytotechnologist.

Tatiana Marshall, 27, and Karel Chan, 27, talk with their friends Alice Cartwright, 28, about their lives and their mutual friendship.

Constance Wright talks with her grandson Jordan Wright about growing up in Harlem with her brother Raymond and the advenutes they had in school, in the neighborhood, and on the subway. She also talks about raising her own sons, having...

Gail Triplitt Newman (70) interviews her mother, Isabel Andrews Triplitt (98), about growing up during the Great Depression in Columbus, GA and how Isabel's life changed as she married, had children, and moved to new cities.

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...

Daughter Edie Wear interviews her mother Helen Watson

Anthony Dozier (53) tells his friend, Carol Mayes McKnight (53) about being among the first African American kids to be bused in Wichita, KS and about witnessing the 1971 race riot at South High School in Wichita.

Sunnetta “Sunny” Slaughter (42) talks to her friend Tiffany Westry (23) about being a survivor of domestic violence, learning that her daughter was a victim of child molestation, and becoming a victim’s advocate.

Mary Hammond (64) and her husband, Kevin Kuroda (63), reminisce about the time they flew to France to retrieve Kevin's late Uncle Robert's class ring which would have them build a family bond with a stranger and retrace Robert's military...

Daughter interviews her father about beoming an actor, relationship with family and being a father.