Vimal Nikore grew up in India during the 1947 Partition, a period of political turmoil and violence which created the modern borders between India and Pakistan. Vimal’s daughter, Monika, asked her how she got through that difficult chapter, and what advice she would pass on about motherhood.
Fulton County Commissioner Khadijhah Abdur-Rahman was the first Muslim woman elected to office in the state of Georgia. She’s joined by Nina and Anna Moshefi, the three reminisce about the day they met distributing food in South Fulton.
StoryCorps Atlanta’s Kiplyn Primus spoke with Kimberly Wynn White about her relationship with her Aunt Prince, and how the two discovered their mutual love of hats.
StoryCorps Atlanta's Kiplyn Primus sits down with labor lawyer Brent Wilson to recount his childhood in New Orleans and what he thought of Atlanta during his time at Morehouse College.
Karen Marie Mason of Atlanta lived with breast cancer for over a decade before the disease took her life. Listen now as she explains to her friend Kiplyn Primus why she chose to chart her own path with the disease.
It was scary in 1961, for the 3 young men set to become Georgia Tech’s first Black students. And it was scary in 2020, for Marcus and Justin, who were accepted to Georgia Tech’s Executive MBA program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Marcus asks Justin about that first day.
Dr. Dale Strasser has treated many polio survivors over the year, including Shirley Duhart-Green. Strasser asks her to talk about some of her experiences having survived polio from the age of two and a half.
In the 1960s, Betty Swims was a young widow with four children to support. It wasn’t easy, and she didn’t always know where or how she’d get the money. She tells her son Roger about it.
For over 50 years, native Atlantan Herman J. Russell made it his business to build a Black owned business empire. In this conversation, fellow entrepreneur Kiplyn Primus asks Russell's son Michael about his not-so-ordinary family.
37 years ago this week, NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff. The disaster occurred when an O-ring seal failed to function properly. In this conversation, Barbara Ann Creamer talks with her grandfather, Pat Patterson, about his work on the space shuttle.