Kim Wargo and Ida Cortez
Ida Cortez, 10, talks with her mom, Kim Wargo, about Ida’s dyslexia, and how she wishes people understood, “it’s not like an illness of the brain, it’s a difference of the brain, every brain is a little bit different.”
Originally aired February 6, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Willa Guidi, Tasha Guth and Brad Guidi
Tasha Guth talks with her parents, Willa and Brad Guidi, about how they met, and the reactions of Willa and Brad’s immediate families to their interracial relationship.
Originally aired January 16, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Paul Corbit Brown and John Brown
Paul Corbit Brown (left) was driving to work in 1993 when he came across a local radio station on which he heard the host saying terrible things about homosexuals. Bothered, he pulled off the road, found a payphone, and called the station. He ended up spending hours with the host on the air. Paul tells his brother John (right) about how this was the moment he found his voice.
Originally aired November 14, 2008, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Hyman Bloom and Andrew Vollo
Hyman Bloom (left), who has been driving a taxi for over 30 years, tells fellow New York City cab driver Andrew Vollo (right) why it’s the only job for him.
Originally aired September 19, 2008, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Tom Kurthy and Robert Madden
Tom Kurthy (left) tells his friend Robert Madden about coming out to his parents. While his father was “very cool” about it, his mother initially took much longer to accept the news, blaming herself for his homosexuality.
Originally aired August 1, 2008, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Ray Martinez
Ray Martinez remembers growing up in an orphanage until he was adopted at 5 years old. In the orphanage nothing belonged to him—not a toy nor a coat—but his new parents gave him a blue stocking cap and a little toy stuffed dog and after they passed away he discovered they always held on to those first things he ever owned.
Originally aired June 20, 2008, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Ramón “Chunky” Sanchez
Ramón “Chunky” Sanchez was raised in a small farming community in southern California in the 1950s. As was common practice at that time, teachers at his local elementary school Anglicized the Mexican American students’ names.
Ramón came to StoryCorps to remember a classmate who proved to be the exception to the rule.
Click here to watch “Facundo the Great,” the StoryCorps animation of Ramón’s story.
Originally aired June 6, 2008, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Judith Wilson
Judith Wilson tells her husband, Donald Kaufman, about a conversation that changed her life.
Taro Alexander
Taro Alexander began stuttering when he was 5 years old. In his teens he attended a high school for the performing arts and found that onstage he was often fluent. At StoryCorps he shares a memory about a difficult time he had getting through a few lines in a play when he was 26 years old.
Originally aired October 19, 2007, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Clayton Hall Jr. and Breana Hall
Clayton Hall remembers his first day as one of the few black students enrolled at Virginia Military Institute.
In 1975, Hall enrolled at VMI, where he was one of a few black students in his class.
When Hall came to StoryCorps with his daughter, Breana, he remembered his first day at the southern military college.