Bernell Sutton

Claudia Sutton (pictured at left) was an accountant at Cantor Fitzgerald with an office on the 101st floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower. She was killed in the attacks on September 11, 2001.

At StoryCorps, her husband, Bernell Sutton, recalls their last morning together.

Recorded September 18, 2009.

Photo courtesy of Bernell Sutton.

Fanni Green and Danyealah Green-Lemons

Fanni Green tells her daughter Danyealah Green-Lemons about the difficult decision she had to make to move her mother, Pauline, into an assisted living facility, and the very hard conversation they had leading up to it.

Originally aired August 28, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

James Sargent and Don Sargent

James Sargent (left) enlisted in the Army in 1966 and fought in the Vietnam War, his younger brother Don (right) attempted to join the Air Force but was rejected because he has diabetes. At StoryCorps they discuss their admiration for each other and the separate battles they have each fought.

Originally aired August 14, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Ann Todd Jealous, Ben Jealous and Mamie Todd

Ben Jealous, head of the NAACP, talks with his mother, Ann Todd Jealous (left), and his grandmother Mamie Todd about some of the racism they have experienced in their lifetimes.

Originally aired July 17, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Tina Nelson and Dottie Copeland

Dottie Copeland tells her daughter Tina Nelson about her breast cancer diagnosis, how she decided to fight the disease like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky, and how beating it changed her life.

Originally aired June 12, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Griselda Lemus and Papsy Lemus

Nine-year-old Griselda Lemus asks her mother, Sgt. Papsy Lemus, about the 13 months she spent at war serving in Baghdad, Iraq, and the difficulty of leaving her family in the United States.

Originally aired on May 29, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Siddiqi Hansoti and Gus Hernandez

Gus Hernandez (right) talks with Siddiqi Hansoti (left), owner of the El Dorado Motel in Salinas, California, about how they met after Gus lost his home to foreclosure, and how Siddiqi became a friend to Gus for life after offering him a job.

Originally aired April 3, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

John Hope Franklin and John W. Franklin

John Hope Franklin became a Boy Scout in the 1920s as scouting was first coming to children in the black community. One of his troop requirements was to do a good deed each day. At StoryCorps he tells his son John W. about the racism he endured at the hands of a blind white woman he had just helped across a street.

Originally aired March 27, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Roger Villanueva and Lourdes Villanueva

Lourdes Villanueva talks to her son Roger about growing up in a family of migrant workers, and the dedication and hard work she put in to get her GED—and her desire to graduate before her own children got their diplomas.

Originally aired February 27, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

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.