Athletes get all the glory, but there are countless people around them making the games happen– from referees making judgments, to vendors in the stands hawking snacks and beer. In this episode, we're talking to people on the sidelines.If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

We're back with more stories that listeners, like you, have shared on our voicemail. This week: The thin lines between life and death, and friendship and love. Leave your own voicemail at 702-706-TALK, or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

702-706-TALK: Saviors, Survival, and Letting Go

Cynthia Alvarez fell in love with Marine Corporal Daniel Mark MacMurray. She was a peace activist, he was a proud veteran, and the two didn't always see eye to eye. But they agreed to love each other.Leave us a voicemail at 702-706-TALK, or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: A Gentleman and a Gentle Man

Gwen and Yasir weren't the type of couple that liked to run marathons, at first. As hardships pulled their lives in unexpected directions, running became their best— and sometimes only— way of remembering what really mattered.If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Long Run

Being a sports fan means putting a part of your happiness in the hands of strangers. When they lose, you die a little. But when they win, it's incredible. This week, stories about the triumph and tragedy of being a fan.If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

For the Fans

Sideliners

Every athlete's looking for that extra edge — and for a lot of them, it's their family. Who drove them to practice? Who told them to never give up? In this episode, player's loved ones step into the spotlight.If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Family That Plays Together

On the first episode of a new sports-themed season of the StoryCorps Podcast, we're talking about the game changers: People who altered how their sport was played. Some of these changes were tiny ones we now take for granted. Others changed how the sport looked. But after they made their mark, nothing was the same.If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Game Changers

Today, an episode by our friends at Radio Diaries and Radiotopia from their latest series, "The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island," untangling mysteries from America's largest public cemetery.Artwork by Juan Astasio.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Radio Diaries: Angel Garcia

Marine Staff Sergeant Nick Bennett and Sergeant Major Dan Miller remember a deployment during the Iraq War that changed their lives.Leave us a voicemail at 702-706-TALK, or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: I'll Be There

All last season we asked our listeners to call our voicemail and tell us their stories. In this special bonus episode, it's their time to shine. Leave us a voicemail at 702-706-TALK, or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: 702-706-TALK

In 1964, a 12-year-old paperboy from suburban Long Island spent nearly two weeks hiding among the gleaming attractions of the New York World's Fair. His adventure caused a media sensation, but the world only learned half the story.If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Phantom of the World's Fair

Jackie Miller and her son, Scott Miller, always shared everything with each other, even if it was hard. Scott knew his mother wanted to live life on her own terms, but he wasn't prepared for how she wanted to end it.If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Nothing Left Unsaid

Judd Esty-Kendall's father was an animal lover who filled their house with raccoons, hawks, and critters of every size. At times it was more like a zoo than a home. But there was one creature Judd's father treasured above the rest: A gray wolf.If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Peter the Wolf

Howie Gordon starred in over a hundred porn films in the 70s and 80s under the name Richard Pacheco. But his greatest role was as a father. At StoryCorps, he talked with his son Bobby Gordon about sex, shame, and dirty movies.If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Birds, the Bees, and My Dad

In "My Way," the new season of the StoryCorps podcast— stories from people who found a rhythm all their own and confidently marched to it their whole lives. Our first episode features a graduate of Hamburger University, one man's remarkably brave appearance on conservative radio in the 1990s, a New Yorker who took his mugger out to dinner, and more.If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

My Way

In 1942, the U.S. allowed Black men to enlist in the Marine Corps for the first time. It was during World War II, and resulted in more than 19,000 Black recruits being sent to Montford Point, North Carolina for basic training. Many of those men are no longer with us, but their voices can be heard in the StoryCorps archive.These stories are part of our Military Voices Initiative.If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: The Men of Montford Point

In this special episode, we're remembering StoryCorps participant Rick Abath, who talked to his wife, Diana, about being on guard during the biggest art heist in history. Rick died last month at the age of 57.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: I Shall Be Released

As we close out our special series celebrating 20 years of StoryCorps, hear how our One Small Step initiative is helping to facilitate a national conversation by bringing people together from across the political spectrum.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

StoryCorps Then and Now: Listen More, Shout Less

Mary Johnson-Roy first came to StoryCorps in 2011 to speak with Oshea Israel, the man who murdered her son. In the latest episode from our special series celebrating StoryCorps' 20th anniversary, we'll share updates on a conversation none of us imagined would happen back when StoryCorps started.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

StoryCorps Then and Now: Mother Mary

StoryCorps' initiatives have long helped us gather voices that are usually omitted from the historical record, like our LGBTQ+ Outloud initiative. In our continuing celebration of twenty years of StoryCorps, we're sharing some of our favorite recordings from that collection... and how a story close to our founder Dave Isay's heart helped lead to its creation.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

StoryCorps Then and Now: Family Pride

For most of StoryCorps' existence, we've recorded people in person at our storybooths. But on this episode of our special series celebrating 20 years of StoryCorps, we're looking back to when we stepped outside the recording booth to capture stories. Sometimes because we wanted to hear new voices... and sometimes because we had to.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

StoryCorps Then and Now: Beyond the Booth

As we celebrate StoryCorps' 20th anniversary, we bring you the story of a man who integrated his high school as a teenager in Knoxville, Tennessee, and how a StoryCorps listener comment helped him reckon with his past five decades later.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

StoryCorps Then and Now: The Griot of Knoxville

In the third episode of our special series celebrating two decades of StoryCorps, we're bringing you inside the Mobile Booth—the recording studio we built in a trailer to circle the country, capturing voices that would otherwise never be recorded. Hear some of our favorite stories from the road, and from the people who haul the trailer on a never-ending road trip.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

StoryCorps Then and Now: On the Road

As we continue celebrating StoryCorps' 20th anniversary, we bring you two of our favorite stories that made a strong impression on our listeners, and we share updates with the participants from the last two decades.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

StoryCorps Then and Now: Love Letters

In this episode, we go back 20 years to the origins of StoryCorps–the challenges of building a recording booth in Grand Central Terminal– and we catch up with the participants from the first ever radio story we broadcast on NPR.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

StoryCorps Then and Now: StoryCorps is Born

As StoryCorps' 20th anniversary approaches, we'll be looking back at important moments both in our history and the country's. This week — one more short story from our Military Voices Initiative. Sergeant Ocean Subiono tells his father, Russell Subiono, about what happened when he tried to enlist.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: Why I'm On This Earth

In celebration of our 20th Anniversary, StoryCorps will be revisiting some of our most memorable conversations from the past two decades. This week, we announce an upcoming special series with this short story from our Military Voices Initiative.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: The Kids From North Baghdad

This week, we're taking a break from our special series celebrating 20 years of StoryCorps to bring you an interview recorded just days ago. It's an update to a story recorded around the holidays back in 2012, and we just had to share it.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: Dear Mrs. Doyle

There are people who help us at every stage of life –– from the moment we're born to our last breath. But at the end, who's helping us when we're gone? On the season finale of the StoryCorps Podcast, twin mortician brothers look back on a life of caring for the dead.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Living for the Dead

When a train ride to work veers into a life or death situation, two strangers become an important part of each other's lives.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Same Train, Different Tracks

50 years ago, most of the nation was glued to "gavel-to-gavel" coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings that would uncover major abuses of power by the Nixon administration. In this episode – how a decision to speak up blew the lid off the largest political scandal in American history.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

To Speak Up

Monique "Muffie" Mousseau and her partner Felipa Deleon grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In this episode, they share the long and sometimes painful journey of fighting for their love, their community, and their ancestors...all while making history.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Long Way Home

Jason Romero was given a serious diagnosis. But to stop running from it he'd have to do something no one had ever done before.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Seeing The Way

In 1920, a father made a split-second decision to save his newborn's life by taking her to an incubator exhibit at Coney Island. We meet her in this episode, and she shares how a sideshow attraction saved her life, and thousands of others, when hospitals couldn't, ultimately changing the course of American medicine.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Thank God For Coney Island

In 1968, just moments after Robert F. Kennedy was shot, a young photographer for The Los Angeles Times — Boris Yaro — captured the scene in an image that's haunted the nation ever since. In this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we remember RFK and we revisit the story of that famous photo.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

A Lasting Shot

Rabbi Philip Lazowski remembers a quick decision that saved his life during the Holocaust.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In Safe Hands

This season on the StoryCorps Podcast from NPR, eight stories about eight moments that changed everything.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Turning Points

On this short Memorial Day episode, we'll hear from Marine Lance Cpl. Travis Williams, an Iraq War veteran who lost every other member of his 12-man squad.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: Living Life For Them

On this short Mother's Day episode, Madzimoyo Owusu came to StoryCorps with her daughter, Johannah Owusu, to honor the memory of the woman who helped shape her life.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: Grandma's Hands

On this extra holiday episode, Terri Van Keuren, Richard Shoup and Pamela Farrell remember how their father, Air Force Colonel Harry Shoup, started the holiday tradition of tracking Santa Claus on U.S. military radar in 1955. donate.storycorps.org/podcastLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: The Santa Tracker

What happens when paralyzing fear stops you from following your dream? In our final episode of the season...Jim Von Stein has written 8000 songs, but almost nobody has heard a single one of them...until now...Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Voice For My Song

In the second part of our Kalaupapa story, we hear how people exiled from society reconnected with family – and found a new community. donate.storycorps.org/podcastLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Last Patients

In this two-part special, we remember a community of forgotten people cast out to a remote Hawaiian island. http://donate.storycorps.org/podcastLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

A Dangerous Word

Family names bind one generation to the next. But what if that name is lost? In this episode, a grieving family learns their legacy is being kept alive by a stranger from far away.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

One Who Is Understanding

We usually lean on our elders for wisdom and support... but sometimes it's the other way around. In this episode, we hear from queer men who found acceptance in one another.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Seeing the Future In You

Capt. Helen Perry talks with her husband, Sgt. Matthew Perry, about the impacts of Matthew's memory loss – and their enduring love.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

You're My Memory

In this episode, we share one couple's story of love and loss under the weight of substance abuse – told through different recordings, twelve years apart.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Everything In Between

In 2012, StoryCorps broadcast a conversation with a young woman involved in the murder of Mulugeta Seraw, a Black man in Portland, Oregon. A decade later, we revisit it to look at the ripples of racist violence, and a few people who fought to stop it.

Ripples of Hate

In the early 90s, teenagers LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman recorded a week of their lives on Chicago's South Side. Working with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, LeAlan and Lloyd produced a documentary they called Ghetto Life 101, one of the most acclaimed programs in public radio history. In remembrance of Lloyd, who died this week, we bring you a special presentation of Ghetto Life 101.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

SPECIAL: Remembering Lloyd Newman of Ghetto Life 101

On this season of the StoryCorps Podcast, stories of the stigmas we carry, and how it feels when we set them down.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Things We Carry

On this short Labor Day episode, we'll hear from sisters Suzi and Donna Wong about growing up in the back of their parents' laundry business in Hollywood, CA.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: Back Of The Laundromat

Growing up in the 1950s in Montgomery, AL., Rev. Farrell Duncombe or "Little Farrell," as he was known by his family and friends, had a mischievous side. In this short episode, he remembers the day he got called out by the mother of civil rights.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: The People That Nurtured Me

Growing up in the 1960s, all of the neighborhood kids wanted to be at Mary Mills' house. In this short extra, she tells her mother why.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: More Than Enough Love

In this short bonus episode, we'll hear fromMs. Betty Thompson on what led her to work at the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

EXTRA: When I Was 16

Everyone's heard of James Brown and Stevie Wonder, but how about the women who helped make them who they are? For our last episode of this season, we'll get to know the unsung icons behind some of the most iconic music.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

It All Starts With A Song

This year marks two big anniversaries that helped change the world of sports and society. We'll hear from some of the people who were a part of these groundbreaking moments.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Worthy In Their Own Beauty

In 2018, Tennille Moore got some bad news and was crying in a public restroom. That's when Mumtaz Champsi stepped in and asked her if she'd like to take a walk. In this episode, we'll hear about how that walk led to a StoryCorps booth and an unlikely connection between strangers.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Fellow Travelers

In this episode, we head to the streets of South Central Los Angeles to meet a helper on horseback.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Horses And Helicopters

With Memorial Day weekend coming up, we're thinking about sacrifice, and the bonds that form between people who literally go through war together; on the battlefield and at home.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

So They're Not Forgotten

Several years ago, Jennifer Hidrogo made a promise to her neighbor. In this episode, she shares how that simple act resulted in her gaining three more children and finding her calling.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

A Neighbor's Promise

In this episode, we'll hear about two people who help during the most important moments of our lives: when we're brought into the world and when we leave it.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Beginning And The End

A few months ago, we asked our listeners one question. We then received hundreds of responses that made even our most hardened producers tear up. In this episode, find out what that question was and how it inspired our new season.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In The Comments

This season of the StoryCorps Podcast is all about the helpers around us. It drops May 3rd.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Littlest Things

Neil Kramer and his ex-wife Sophia Lansky talk about their unique quarantine experience together.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Three's Company

In 1993, Los Angeles County firefighter Derek Bart saved a child from a house fire in Santa Clarita, CA. In our last episode of the season, we'll hear three different perspectives on that night, and how they all intersect nearly 30 years later.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

You Can Fall, Just Don't Stay There

All season long, we've heard from trailblazers at the top of their game in every field. In this episode, we mean that literally. We'll hear from three different athletes who shook things up on the baseball field and on the basketball court.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Finding Where You Fit

On this week's episode, we're remembering the final hours of Dr. King's life through the experiences of some of the people who were there at the time.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

We Go Up Together, Or We Go Down Together

In this episode, Jeanine Menze and La'Shanda Holmes talk about becoming the first and second Black female pilots in the U.S. Coast Guard, what led them to the military, and ultimately, each other.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Sign Me Up

On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, how three kids who once dreamed of outer space grew up to make their mark beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Go To The Clouds

At the height of the AIDS crisis, Mark Woodley disclosed his HIV status and lost his job as a Macy's Santa Claus. In this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, Mark speaks with his friend Jon Winkleman about the moment they decided to take action.

When Santas Stormed Macy's

On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we'll share the lesser known stories behind some popular songs, and how two families are honoring the musicians behind them.

La Música En Mi

In this episode, we focus on the lives and achievements of two Black men who conducted groundbreaking medical research in the 1940's — as told by the people they mentored.

Men of The Ages

The StoryCorps Podcast returns with new episodes, featuring stories of courage from people who blazed a path, defied the odds, and changed history for those who came after them.

Paving Pathways

In this episode, we're encouraging people all across the country to record a conversation with a loved one or someone they admire over Thanksgiving weekend. By featuring several intergenerational conversations, we hope to show just how easy it can be to do this, whether you're across the table or across the country.

Pass the Plate, Pass the Mic

Scientists Zoe Courville and Lora Koenig work to study the impact of climate change — which pulls them away from their children for weeks at a time. In our last episode of the season, they share some hard-earned wisdom with parents who may be struggling during the pandemic.

Just Doing Our Best

In this week's episode, how worlds that quite literally collided, led to unexpected friendships and new career paths.

The Collision Course

In this episode, how kids and their parents — who have navigated many changes together — are facing the next big change apart.

Everything Together

When Ileana Watson died, her daughter Sada was just about to become a mom herself. Three years later, Sada sat down with Ileana's best friend, Angela Morehead-Mugita, to learn more about her late-mother.

Every Seed Your Mother Sowed

As we mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 — memories of Richard Palazzolo, who didn't make it out of the Twin Towers that day — told by his identical twin brother who did.

To Me, Every Day Is Yesterday: Remembering 9/11

In this episode of the podcast, StoryCorps teamed up with NPR's daily afternoon podcast, Consider This, to bring you stories from some of the people whose lives were forever changed by September 11th and its aftermath.

From StoryCorps and Consider This: The Lasting Toll Of 9/11

In this episode, we remember Army Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, the first American soldier to be killed in combat during the War in Afghanistan.

What I Would Say

In this episode, we'll hear conversations between family members who have mended and grown their relationships over time.

Growing Pains

In this week's episode, how a father-daughter relationship rebounded after years of periodic estrangement.

Stronger Than Ever

In this episode, how one family's socially-distant block party brought a neighborhood together during the pandemic.

Joy On Saint James Place

On an all new season of the StoryCorps podcast, we're bringing you stories about what it's like to find new footing, and begin again.

Finding Our Way Back

On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, how one man's decision to forgive the man who murdered his son brought two families together.

Carrying The Weight

On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we're sharing stories from people who bring their whole heart to the place they live, and help create a feeling of home for everyone around them.

Local Treasures

On this episode, as we approach another Valentine's Day, we're bringing you stories from couples who don't need to look at a calendar to remember that they're in love.

First Comes Love, Then Comes StoryCorps

On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we're exploring hope: where it comes from, what it feels like, and how it changes people.

I Found My Lighthouse

With the swearing in of Vice President Kamala Harris, this week's episode is all about badass ladies who are also trailblazers in their own right.

The First, But Not The Last

This week on the StoryCorps podcast, we hear from a mother and daughter about how they became poll workers together, and what this last election day was like in their Philadelphia neighborhood.

Making It Count

On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, to kick off 2021, we're hearing stories from people who made big changes in their lives, started anew, and were happier for it.

Things Are Looking Up

On this episode--as we close out 2020--memories of four people we lost this year, but who left us with lessons on how to live courageously.

Saying Goodbye To The Great Ones

On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we're celebrating the holidays by sharing stories of the people who matter most—family.

To Grandmother's House We (Sorta) Go

On this episode, how Alice Mitchell and her younger brother Ibukun Owolabi found a way to move forward—from baby steps to teenagehood—after losing their mom.

A Little Piece Of Mommy On Earth

On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, how stepping into quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic helped a man in his 90's step out of the closet.

Living My Life Like It's Golden

On this season of the StoryCorps podcast, we're bringing you conversations from people who have lived through great change – historical moments but also personal ones – and learned some meaningful lessons along the way.

Looking Back, Moving Forward

On this week's episode of the StoryCorps podcast, part two of the One Small Step special—highlighting conversations across the political divide.

One Small Step: The NPR Special Part 2

On this week's episode of the StoryCorps podcast, how conversations across the political divide help create a culture of empathy.

One Small Step: The NPR Special Part 1

On this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, how five families are dealing with COVID-19, and having tough conversations along the way.

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