StoryCorps Wins Emmy Award for "Traffic Stop"

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StoryCorps Wins Emmy Award for "Traffic Stop"

This month we won our first Emmy Award for the animated story of Alex Landau, an African American man adopted by white parents who was severely beaten by Denver police after what he believed was going to be little more than a routine traffic stop.

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#TheGreatListen2016

In 2015, more than 100,000 individuals from all 50 states took part in The Great Thanksgiving Listen, our national education project that empowers high school students to record conversations with a grandparent or another elder. Help us create a national listening movement for #TheGreatListen2016.

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The Unedited StoryCorps Interview: Julie Stolzberg and Abigail Pogrebin

In this full-length StoryCorps Legacy interview, Julie Stolzberg shares childhood memories, family stories, and recollections about the birth of her two children with her friend Abigail Pogrebin just weeks before Julie passed away from cancer.

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Happy 100th Birthday, National Park Service

In partnership with the Midwest Region Centennial Committee, we've documented the stories of more than 300 national park staff and visitors.

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Announcing the 2017 StoryCorps MobileBooth Tour

With the new year, we are on a new journey across the United States. In 2017, StoryCorps' MobileBooth will travel more than 4,000 miles from the Gulf Coast of Florida to Michigan’s Great Lakes, then down the Mississippi River finishing the year in Southern Texas along the Gulf of Mexico.

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#WhoWeAre

Through November, StoryCorps and Upworthy will release a series of real-life stories told by everyday Americans that speak to our best selves. Stories that amplify love over hate and empathy over fear. Stories that build bridges of understanding between people and help us recognize our shared humanity.

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Georgetown University’s American Pilgrimage Project

The American Pilgrimage Project invited people of diverse backgrounds to sit and talk to each other about the role their religious beliefs play at crucial moments of their lives.

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First Days Story Project

An initiative that chronicled the final days of the war and evacuation in Saigon, preserving stories of the Vietnamese-American refugee experience through the voices of those who lived it.

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StoryCorps Tribal Libraries: Selected Stories

StoryCorps Tribal Libraries is a program that has provided tribal libraries and libraries that serve Native communities with the resources and training to implement our interview methods within a framework of high-quality library programming and cultural preservation.

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The Unedited StoryCorps Interview: Phil Avillo and Susan Scherr

In this interview from the StoryCorps archives, a former Marine recently diagnosed with ALS talks with his daughter about the effects of losing a leg during the Vietnam War, and how ALS has affected his life.