Category: Struggle

“'I'm curious how I could have reached out to you better?'”

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Antero Garcia talks to his former student Roger Alvarez who dropped out during his senior year of high school. Read more…

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Recorded in Culver City, CA.

“He was a strong, fit kid. So I really didn't think anything was seriously wrong.”

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Dennis Apple and his wife, Beulah, remember their son Denny, who died when he was a teenager. Read more…

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Recorded in Kansas City, MO.

“I am happier now without my voice than I've ever been with my voice.”

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René Foreman, who survived cancer of the esophagus, tells her daughter Michelle about speaking through an electrolarynx. Read more…

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Recorded in Los Angeles, CA.

“At my house, only one person got the mail, and that was my mother.”

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Nathan Hoskins tells his friend Sally Evans how his family first learned that he was gay. Read more…

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Recorded in Lexington, KY.

“I was working for the state of Colorado...”

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Queen Jackson (R) tells her case manager, Debra MacKillop (L), how she became homeless.

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Recorded in Denver, CO.

“I've lived with this for so long.”

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Chris Whitney tells his friend Erin Kuka about being diagnosed HIV positive early on in the AIDS crisis.

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Recorded in San Francisco, CA.

“The students wouldn't speak to me...”

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A.P. Tureaud Jr. (R) tells his friend Steven Walkley (L) about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“It was just happenstance that he happened to be there.”

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Former World Trade Center Director and CEO Charles Maikish remembers John DiGiovanni, who died in the World Trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“She died on an incident that I sent her on.”

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Retired Sgt. 1st Class Max Voelz remembers his wife, Staff Sgt. Kimberly Voelz, who died in Iraq while disarming an IED. Read more…

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Recorded in Baltimore, MD.

“I just hugged the man who murdered my son.”

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Mary Johnson speaks with Oshea Israel, who killed her son in 1993. Read more…

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Recorded in Minneapolis, MN.

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