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Our mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. View our award winning animations here or visit us on YouTube.com/StoryCorps.
Dear StoryCorps, Will you be my valentine? xoxo, Disability Visibility Project So Many Reasons There are a lot of reasons why I love StoryCorps, but I'll speak from my experience as a one-time interviewee, an interviewer of over 16 people, and a community partner. I started the Disability Visibility Project (DVP), a community partnership with StoryCorps,…
What happened to one elementary school as a result of mandated integration in the 1950's.
StoryCorps, the oral history project that has recorded and archived "over 50,000 interviews with over 90,000 participants" since 2003, has animated three
a series of new work where i continue to explore the idea of limitation just with a line and some color plus some other work full of line :) enjoy and spread love. Jonathan
Twenty-three-year-old Collin Smith (right) grew up in Asheboro, North Carolina. When he was a sophomore in high school, he was in a car accident that left him quadriplegic. Ernest Greene (left), who is 72, attended the same church as Collin’s family, and though he’d never met Collin, he decided he wanted to help. He offered […]
In 1955, John L. Black, Sr. started his job as a janitor for the Cincinnati public school system. He regularly put in 16-hour days to provide for his wife a...
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The first-ever animated feature from StoryCorps, Listening Is an Act of Love, presents six stories from 10 years of StoryCorps, where everyday people sit down together to ask life’s important questions and share stories from their lives. Framing these intimate conversations is an interview between StoryCorps founder Dave Isay and his nine-year-old nephew, Benji. Listening […]
You know those NPR *StoryCorps* segments that get you choked up on your morning commute? You can record a slice of personal history (interviews are archived at the Library of Congress) at the Atlanta StoryBooth, one of three permanent StoryCorps studios in the country.
For nine years the StoryCorps Airstream Trailer has been traveling the country to capture the stories of everyday Americans. Including you.
In this week's StoryCorps, a musician reflects on how he ended up playing the trombone. (Story aired on Morning Edition of June 21, 2013.)
In the StoryCorps animation "Me & You", Scott Miller has a touching conversation with his mother Jackie about her decision, back in 1971, to adopt him. In
It’s been 25 years since the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law. So, we dug into the StoryCorps archive to bring you stories that celebrate just a few of the millions of people who gained civil rights from this landmark legislation.
Bryan Wilmoth and his seven younger siblings were raised in a strict, religious home. At StoryCorps, Bryan talks with his brother Mike about what it was like to reconnect years after their dad kicked Bryan out for being gay. Para subtítulos en español, haga click en el ícono de YouTube en la esquina derecha, y […]
On November 19, 2015 Alice Wong interviewed her friend Patty Berne at StoryCorps San Francisco for the Disability Visibility Project. Below are some condensed and edited excerpts from their conversation. On disability justice Patty: I think people are often more familiar with both understanding of a rights based framework than a justice based framework in…
Ali Murphy interviewed Steve Lee for the Disability Visibility Project™ at StoryCorps San Francisco on October 2nd, 2014. In this clip, Steve talks about the discrimination he faced as a child born with a disability, and how art later served as a means of showcasing the intersection of disability, colonialism and race. Text transcript of the…
StoryCorps believes that everyone has an important story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. Our mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. Since our founding in 2003, we’ve helped more than 630,000 people across the country have meaningful conversations about their lives. These recordings are collected in the U.S. Library of Congress and in our online archive which is now the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered. And while our stories are broadcast weekly on NPR to over 12 million listeners, StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit, sharing select stories with the public through our podcast, animated shorts, digital platforms, and best-selling books.
In early 2006, 12–year–old Joshua Littman, who was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, formerly referred to as Asperger’s Syndrome, interviewed his mother, Sarah, at StoryCorps. Their one–of-a–kind conversation covered everything from cockroaches to Sarah’s feelings about Joshua as a son. Para subtítulos en español, haga click en el ícono de YouTube en la esquina derecha, y […]
