• “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 Tampa, FL

  • “I was making my way across the state of Arkansas...”

    Mildred Bond Roxborough, who has worked for the NAACP for more than 50 years, tells her colleague Maxim Thorne about an incident from her early days on the road.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “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 Salt Lake City, UT.

  • “How's it feel...telling someone they're going to die?”

    Sarafina Viviano asks her mother, Dana, about her work as a cancer nurse.

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    Recorded in St. Louis, MO

  • “One thing that I do remember, very vividly and clearly, is the impact.”

    Racquel Kelley talks about working at the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001. At the time, Kelley was the mother of an 8-month-old son.

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    Recorded in Washington D.C.

  • “The usher goes down to the dugout, comes back with the Babe...”

    89-year-old Bob Panara, who became deaf when he was ten, tells his friend Greg Livadas about meeting some of baseball's greatest players.

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    Recorded in Rochester, NY

  • “I've been in and around barber shops all of my life.”

    Lawrence Anthony (L), who has been cutting hair for over 60 years, and fellow barber David Shirley (R), talk about their work. Read more...

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    Recorded in Drexel, NC

  • “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 Pacific Grove, CA

  • “He got off the motorcycle and proceeded to show us card tricks...”

    Magician Ricky Boone, who has a rare bone disorder, tells his friend Patti Barber about learning magic.

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    Recorded in Asheville, NC

  • “The Betsy Ross story intrigued me.”

    Bob Heft remembers designing the 50 star U.S. flag as a high school student in 1958. At the time there were only 48 states in the Union.

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    Recorded in Saginaw, MI