Category: Griot

Rebia Mixon-Clay remembers her late husband, Frank Mixon.

Recorded in Chicago, IL.

Clayton Hall Jr. tells his daughter, Breana, about his first day as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute.

Recorded in Richmond, VA.

Ricardo Pitts-Wiley tells his son Jonathan about a year that shaped his life.

Recorded in Providence, RI.

Nzingha Masani tells her friend, Noah Hairston, about receiving her name at an African naming ceremony.

Recorded in Detroit, MI.

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.

Yvonne Logan Jones (L) and her sister Ola Mae Logan Allen remember their parents, who migrated north in the 1940s.

Recorded in Detroit, MI.

91-year-old Ruth Ballard (L) tells her minister, Ramonia Lee, about moving to Tuskegee, Alabama during World War II.

Recorded in Silver Spring, MD.

Larry Young (L) tells his friend Clyde Cleveland about trying to register for college in the early 1940s.

Recorded in Detroit, MI.

Otis Wade remembers Mandred Henry, in an interview with Mandred's granddaughter, Beatrice Perron.

Recorded in Martha's Vineyard, MA.

Kahlil Almustafa remembers his mother in an interview with his friend Kamilah Duggins.

Recorded in New York, NY.