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Your gift will help reach out to thousands more and help us create powerful radio moments like the stories below, all of which resulted from our outreach partnerships.
“What are the things you believe in?”
Ky-Antre Compton to Stuart Chittenden, his mentor from Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Recorded in Omaha, NE
“I just tried to stay in the background…”
Joe Buford tells his literacy tutor, Michelle Miller, about what it was like not knowing how to read.
Recorded in Nashville, TN
“I felt alone and tried to hide it…”
Taro Alexander talks about growing up with a stutter.
Recorded in New York, NY, in partnership with Our Time Theater Company.
“My aunt started telling us that my Mom had this disease…”
Charles Jackson remembers the day he found out that his mother had Alzheimer’s disease.
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA
“She said, ‘You know, there was a time we couldn’t wear no fingernail polish…’”
Mary Ellen Noone remembers a story from her great-grandmother.
Recorded in Montgomery, AL
“Think you’ll ever get out?”
Paul Mortimer and Shawn Fox, prisoners at Oregon State Penitentiary, interview one another. Mortimer died in November, 2005.
Recorded in Salem, OR
“When I met Michael I was 14 years old.”
Monique Ferrer remembers her ex-husband, Michael Trinidad, who was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
“I really miss so much about New Orleans…”
Antoinette Franklin (R) and her niece, Iriel Franklin, talk about relocating to Houston after Hurricane Katrina.
Recorded in Houston, TX. Click here for more Hurricane Katrina stories.
