Stories in the 'Struggle' category


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“I saw this guy with a head of black hair and white, white, teeth...”

Joan DeLevie (R) tells her daughter, Sharon (L), how she met her husband, Ari at a party in 1959.

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Sharon DeLevie also interviewed her dad, Ari, about being the primary caregiver for her mother.

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Recorded in New York, NY

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“You are her handiwork...”

Sy Saliba talks to his daughter, Yvette, about her mother, Pat, who passed away from multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in 2005.

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Recorded in partnership with Florida Hospital in Orlando, FL

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“I remember being in court every day...”

Sylvia Mendez (L), 73, talks to her sister Sandra Mendez Duran (R), 59, about Mendez v. Westminster, their family's 1945 lawsuit that won Mexican-American children the right to attend white schools.

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Recorded in Walnut, CA

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“I was in the ICU and there was a man dying of tuberculosis...”

Dr. Pedro "Joe" Greer talks to his wife, Janus, about how he started working with Miami's homeless.

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Recorded in partnership with WDNA in Miami, FL

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“My mother was the glue to our family...”

Gwen Richards remembers her mother, Helen, who had Alzheimer's.

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Recorded in partnership with The Alzheimer’s Association - Heart of America Chapter in Prairie Village, KS

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“My maternal grandfather, Rocco Galasso, was a superintendent in an apartment building...”

Nicholas Petron remembers his grandfather, who came to the U.S. from Italy as a young man.

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Recorded in partnership with Adelphi University in New York, NY

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“Letting go, for my mother, was scary.”

Fanni Green (L) tells her daughter, Danyealah (R), about moving her mother, Pauline, into an assisted living facility after her health began to fail.

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Recorded in partnership with WMNF Community Radio in Tampa, FL

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“In 1966 I enlisted in the army for service in Vietnam. At that same time, Don was battling his diabetes.”

Jim Sargent (L) and his brother, Don (R), who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 17, interview each other.

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Recorded in partnership with KCPW Public Radio in Salt Lake City, UT.

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“He was a human being; I knew we had that much in common.”

Mamie Todd (R) tells her daughter, Ann Todd Jealous (L), and grandson, Benjamin Todd Jealous, about demanding supplies from the white school superintendent while teaching at an all-black school in the 1930s. Benjamin Todd Jealous is President and CEO of the NAACP.

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Recorded in partnership with the NAACP in Pacific Grove, CA

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“I dealt with it by saying to myself that I would fight this cancer like a boxing match.”

Dottie Copeland tells her daughter Tina Nelson about being diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Recorded in partnership with the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University in St. Louis, MO

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