Category: Griot

“She made us feel like we were royalty...”

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

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“I came to Grady in the 1956 class.”

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Murray Brown tells her friend Kerrie Cotten Williams about being a nursing student in a segregated hospital.

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Recorded in Atlanta, GA.

“Who is important in your life right now?”

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LeKeisha Williams (L) interviews her best friend, Tia Williams.

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Recorded in New York, NY, in partnership with ACORN Community High School. Array

“And right then it dawned on me -- that's not family, those aren't friends.”

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Omar Leech (R) tells his friend Lenear Pryor about life as a gang member.

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Recorded in Atlanta, GA.

“My grandmother used to take my brother and myself to the south every summer...”

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Jim McFarland remembers traveling from New York City to the segregated south as a boy.

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Recorded in Atlanta, GA.

“When I was nine, I weighed 250 pounds.”

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Johnnie Tyson tells her niece Sandra Fleming about growing up obese.

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Recorded in Little Rock, AR.

“He asked me, 'How many black jelly beans are in the jar...'”

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Theresa Burroughs tells her daughter Toni Love about registering to vote.

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Recorded in Tuscaloosa, AL.

“I put the screen down, took a seat, and the streetcar became hostile.”

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Jerome Smith tells his friend Carol Bebelle about an incident from his childhood.

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Recorded in New Orleans, LA.

“Daddy would come home tired to the bone...”

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Samuel Black tells his wife, Edda Fields-Black, about his father, who operated a boiler room.

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Recorded in Pittsburgh, PA.

“Is there anything you wanted to know about me?”

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Hasiyna Price, right, tells her cousin Danette Banks about being a teenager with scoliosis.

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Recorded in New York, NY, in partnership with ACORN Community High School.. Array

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